DESIGNING ONLINE & BLENDED COURSES FOR SIGNIFICANT LEARNING by Dee Fink & Associates
Two-day Workshop
- Friday and Saturday, February 22nd - 23rd
- 8:30am to 3:30pm (lunch provided)
- Location: Nursing Building, room 260
This F2F workshop is based on Dee Fink’s book, “Creating Significant Learning Experiences.”(Jossey-Bass, 2003).
This experience is specifically intended to help faculty design or redesign their own online or hybrid courses. Both of these learning experiences will show how the principles of Integrated Course Design can be used, but they will also provide information about tools and procedures that can be used to meet the specific challenges and opportunities of teaching in an online environment.
What Will Be the “Take Away’s”?
By the end of this workshop or the online course, participants will:
- Be able to apply the principles of Integrated Course Design to any online or hybrid courses, so that students have a significant learning experience.
- Be able to use tools and procedures that are unique to the online teaching environment.
Incentives
Participants who agree to the terms of the incentive programs for creating online or hybrid courses will receive a technology stipend that can go towards technology and resources to help with the creation of online or hybrid courses.
Workshop Leaders
LINDA JACOBY has over 25 years of experience designing and teaching multiple levels of face-to-face, hybrid and online college-level courses. For the past 10 years, she has been coaching faculty members on how to use the latest and most appropriate web technologies into their teaching and how to design quality online and hybrid learning experiences for their students. In addition, she has facilitated a ten-district consortium task force for online learning for both university and K-12 teachers. At the present time, she works as Coordinator of Online Learning at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
STEWART ROSS is the founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Currently in his 36th year in higher education, he served as Director of Bands for 21 years and has presented over 50 workshops throughout the country on Integrated Course Design and other topics in higher education in just the past few years. He holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from Northwestern University.
Agenda
- Day 1 – Morning Session Introduction to the Workshop/Course
- Introduction to Integrated Online Course Design
- The Taxonomy of Significant Learning
- Situational Factors & Pedagogical Challenges
- Developing Goals
- Developing Assessments
- Day 1 – Afternoon Session Developing Learning Activities
- Aligning Unit/Module and Course Goals, Objectives,
- Assessments & Activities
- Day 2 – Morning Session Determining Organizational and Navigational
- Strategies
- Designing Course Introductions
- Designing Introductory Activities
- Developing a Syllabus
- Day 2 – Afternoon Session Using Media and Technology
- Ensuring Access and Compliance (ADA & Copyright)
- Assessing an Online or Hybrid Course
- Next Steps
- Feedback
Information about the course:
Integrated Course Design for Significant Learning for F2F Courses
There are many ways in which faculty can improve teaching and learning for themselves and their students. No area is more beneficial than creating significant learning experiences for students through an integrated course design. This interactive workshop was created for any discipline area, as participants are taken through a system of integrated course design that encourages the development of meaningful learning goals, active teaching strategies, and quality assessment--all integrated into a powerful course that can transform the classroom into an exciting laboratory of learning.
The workshop on integrated course design enables participants from all areas of higher education to reflect on the power of creating good courses; courses that are based on significant learning experiences in and out of the classroom. By focusing on learner goals, teaching activities and assessment of learning, participants develop a template they can use in creating their own course that integrates these three areas. Of particular value is Fink's Taxonomy of significant learning: foundational knowledge, application, integration, caring, human dimension and learning how to learn.
Participants in the workshop learn the basic foundational knowledge involved with course design including terms and concepts that are used in creating quality courses. They also begin to learn how to use this model of integrated course design through application exercises and problems. Throughout the workshop, ideas from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning are developed along with best practices used by participants.
As they identify the value of course design in improving teaching, participants realize what else they need to learn after the workshop to continue to develop the skills necessary to create courses that are integrated and lead to significant learning. The workshop is actually built around the same basic principals used to design a quality course in higher education.
Integrated Course Design for Significant Learning for Online Course Development with Linda Jacoby, instructional designer for online courses at Minnesota State University.
There are many ways in which faculty can improve teaching and learning for themselves and their students. No area is more beneficial than creating significant learning experiences for students through an integrated course design. This interactive workshop was created for any discipline area, as participants are taken through a system of integrated course design that encourages the development of meaningful learning goals, active teaching strategies, and quality assessment--all integrated into a powerful course that can transform the classroom into an exciting laboratory of learning.
The workshop on integrated course design enables participants from all areas of higher education to reflect on the power of creating good courses; courses that are based on significant learning experiences in and out of the classroom. By focusing on learner goals, teaching activities and assessment of learning, participants develop a template they can use in creating their own course that integrates these three areas. Of particular value is Fink's Taxonomy of significant learning: foundational knowledge, application, integration, caring, human dimension and learning how to learn.
Participants in the workshop learn the basic foundational knowledge involved with course design including terms and concepts that are used in creating quality courses. They also begin to learn how to use this model of integrated course design through application exercises and problems. Throughout the workshop, ideas from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning are developed along with best practices used by participants.
As they identify the value of course design in improving teaching, participants realize what else they need to learn after the workshop to continue to develop the skills necessary to create courses that are integrated and lead to significant learning. The workshop is actually built around the same basic principles used to design a quality course in higher education.
This workshop not only includes the F2F ideas, it also brings into focus online issues and is built around Quality Matters rubrics.