Student Activities. Examples of Student Activitieslast revised 10/9/00 Beginning-of-course activities Student bios At the beginning of the course students are requested to post a brief bio to a bulletin board area to introduce themselves to the rest of the class and also to familiarize them with the course technology.
The bio can be guided by several questions for them to answer. Student home pages Students are asked to create a home page for use in the course, where they let the instructor and fellow students know a little about themselves. Teaching & Learning. Welcome to the LearnDAT Teaching and Learning website.
We have compiled and organized information collected over the ten plus years of our involvement in the development and production of online teaching and learning experiences. The following information covers critical questions you may have before designing your course. Types of assessments. Design for adult learning Ideally, the design of a course should allow students to customize the experience to meet their goals and complement their personal learning styles. Leonard and DeLacey draw two observations from an Adult Learning Workshop [*] held at Harvard Business School that are useful to keep in mind when designing enhanced, blended or fully-online courses: students who already know the power of a classroom experience will not easily abandon that model for something new; because humans have "certain, predictable preferences and capabilities in learning," some principles of learning span different academic methods.
They offer seven simple, yet valuable ideas that should be incorporated into the design of online courses: