Engage Learners in the Blended Course
In this module, you will explore strategies for engaging your students both face-to-face and online and how to develop rich synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences. You will add plans for activities to your course blueprint and have the opportunity to explore tools to support learning activities in the blended classroom.
Design Learning Activities and Interactions
- Designing Effective Learning Activities
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- NOTE: This reading discusses using active learning techniques in your blended course, balancing direct instruction and guided inquiry learning activities, and determining which activities should be in-person vs. online.
- NOTE: This reading discusses using active learning techniques in your blended course, balancing direct instruction and guided inquiry learning activities, and determining which activities should be in-person vs. online.
- Complete the Interactions Worksheet
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- Instructions: Choose one course module/unit and use this worksheet to detail how the activities in the module will map to the unit and course objectives and how the students will interact with the material.
- Instructions: Choose one course module/unit and use this worksheet to detail how the activities in the module will map to the unit and course objectives and how the students will interact with the material.
- Modified Bloom’s Taxonomy Wheel Graphic with Verbs and Activities
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- NOTE: This chart matches different learning activities to the levels (and verbs) associated with Bloom’s Taxonomy. It can be used to help scaffold student learning as you plan activities throughout the course.
- NOTE: This chart matches different learning activities to the levels (and verbs) associated with Bloom’s Taxonomy. It can be used to help scaffold student learning as you plan activities throughout the course.
- Modified Bloom’s Taxonomy Wheel Graphic with Verbs and Activities- Image Transcription
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- NOTE: A transcription of the Bloom's Taxonomy Wheel Graphic.
- Add Learning Activities to Your Course Blueprint
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- Instructions: Add learning activities to their associated module/objective/assessment on the course blueprint.
- NOTE: You must sign in to G Suite to make a copy of this document. If you already made a copy of the Course Blueprint in Modules 2 or 3 and began to fill it in with your goals, objectives, and assessments, continue working on that document in your personal Google Drive. If you have not worked on the Course Blueprint yet, it will be mentioned multiple times throughout the Learning Path. You only need to make a copy once - you should continue to add information to the file you have saved in your personal Google Drive.
Balancing Synchronous and Asynchronous Activities
- The Relationship Between Face-to-Face and Online Components
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- NOTE: This visual and accompanying questions challenge you to think critically about how the online portions of your course interact with the in-class activities. Use this as a guide as you add integrations to your course blueprint.
- NOTE: This visual and accompanying questions challenge you to think critically about how the online portions of your course interact with the in-class activities. Use this as a guide as you add integrations to your course blueprint.
- Blended Content and Assignments
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- NOTE: This reading discusses the importance of integration between in-class and online portions of your blended course. It also offers possibilities for technologies useful when creating learning activities.
- Add Integration to Your Course Blueprint
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- Instructions: Add required materials and technologies to their associated module/objective/assessment/activity on the course blueprint. Additionally, include how you will integrate in-class and online components of each unit.
- NOTE: You must sign in to G Suite to make a copy of this document. If you already made a copy of the Course Blueprint in Modules 2, 3, or 4 and began to fill it in with your goals, objectives, assessments, and learning activities, continue working on that document in your personal Google Drive. If you have not worked on the Course Blueprint yet, it will be mentioned multiple times throughout the Learning Path. You only need to make a copy once - you should continue to add information to the file you have saved in your personal Google Drive.