Course - Implementing Your Design

Developing a Course

Implementing Your Design

What parts of your course map should be implemented in a Web site? The answer to that question will depend upon several factors:

Your teaching philosophy and methods
Your students' learning styles
The role the site will play in your course (informational, supplemental, dependent, or fully webbed)
The characteristics of your learning environment

Activity

Select a learning objective/performance task and with your partner, brainstorm one way it could be implemented in a traditional learning environment, and one way it could be implemented through the Web, or the Web used in combination with other Internet tools..

Example:

Traditional Method: During class, students will break into groups of three and brainstorm a set of age-appropriate musical activities they would do if put in charge of a day care center for a day. One person will act as scribe and write down a summary of their ideas to be turned in. If there is time and the class is not too large, small groups will report to the large group.
Web Based Method: Students will work in small groups through e-mail to discuss age-appropriate musical activities they would do if put in charge of a day care center for a day. At a specific time and day, a representative from each small group will post a summary of their ideas on the web, using an interactive web form created for that purpose. Students will be asked to read other groups' summaries, and to critique one of them through a similar web-posting process.

Work through each of the elements of your course map and brainstorm alternatives on how to present it as part of a well coordinated teaching and learning process. By the time you finish this exercise, you will have a clear picture of which parts of your course can be included in your Web site and which should not.