Bloom’s Taxonomy is brought up a lot amongst educators and instructional designers. It’s a go-to resource when designing class activities, as it details different practices students can achieve throughout the learning experience. In today’s post, let’s go through each of the six elements of the revised version. I’ll provide some examples of activities that can work with each level.
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Robert Gagne’s “Nine Events of Instruction” framework is my favorite lesson learned so far in my instructional design research. It works for all types of teaching and training situations, but I’m focusing on college course design in this post. Keep in mind that this framework can be used for one assignment or for a course design as a whole.
Continue readingNeed to create achievable learning objectives for your students? Not sure how to approach designing or explaining these learning objectives? In my recent instructional design research, I learned about the ABCD model for creating a learning objective. Find out more in this post.
Continue readingI recently took a Coursera course about the basics of instructional design. I thought I’d share some of what I learned. Specifically, the ADDIE Model is used to design and evaluate a course. There are five steps, hence A-D-D-I-E, to discuss. If you want a more in-depth discussion about designing a college course, check out my Successful Start series.
Continue readingDuring the month of July, I decided to theme my eight YouTube videos to focus on specific types of teaching tips and assignments ideas. Each week had its own theme: college basics, writing, literature, and multimedia. On Tuesdays, I shared some resources or tools tied to the theme. On Fridays, I shared three assignment ideas. If you want access to the assignment sheet templates, they can be found in my free resource library. [Sign Up to Access] In this blog post, I’ve listed information about the month’s videos and added links to all of them. If you teach college freshman or are interested in improving student academic writing or multimodal writing, check out the videos below.
Continue readingI do a lot of participation activities in my classes, since engaging in class activities is a great way to keep students involved in their learning experience and a great way to get a sense of how well students are understanding class content. In today’s post, I go over five types of participation activities that I use in my classrooms and explain how these participation activities are used to achieve certain learning outcomes.
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