DLI - 304 Backward Design Framework & Course Alignment

Faculty and instructional staff at KSU will be the primary audience for this workshop where they will work in their Sandbox, in Unit 1 for this activity. They will practice writing course content for the unit they are working on using the Backward Design Framework. The content may include text, images, videos, links to scholarly articles, web pages, websites, game sites, news articles, podcasts etc. All content they develop must be aligned to the course objectives and assessments in the course. All content - developed and linked - must be accessible and variable formats liked closed captions, screen readers, audio and transcripts must be provided to meet accessibility needs of diverse learners. Skills associated are D2L, Community of Inquiry Framework’s Social, teaching , and cognitive presence and online teaching pedagogy.

Once participants are enrolled in the workshop, they will be going through the workshop content and resources and complete activities in the Sandbox and the assessment area in the workshop. They will be developing webpages of their Unit related to unit/moduleintroduction, writing objectives, creating all the relevant content (lecture material, weblinks, articles, videos etc.). As the Online Course embodies both pedagogical and technical skills, participants will be developing a part of a course that they plan to teach in the near future. The workshop content and resources will guide them through the pedagogy and the videos and articles and lecture content will provide them with directions to develop components like writing objectives for the unit/module using Blooms Taxonomy and Verb wheel, using the Backward Design Framework to check for alignment between objectives, assessments and content and activities included in the course, and a course alignment map.

The learning outcomes covered for this badge are as follows. Participants will be able to:

1. Create a full Unit/Module of their choice for an upcoming online course
2. Use Blooms Verb Wheel and the ABCD Method to write measurable learning objectives for a Unit of your choice, for an upcoming course, in the Sandbox provided
3. Use the Backward Design Framework to create Assessments for your Unit, in the Sandbox provided 
4. Create chunks of content for the unit you have chosen to work on, in the Sandbox, using text, images, videos and links
5. Create a Course Alignment Map showing “alignment” between learning objectives, assessments and content 
6. Edit D2L pages in the Sandbox to write unit introduction, summary and conclusion for their unit/module