Online Class Tuesday, September 30

There are three steps to completing this online class.

Step One -- Submit Assignment 2, Needs Analysis

Assignment 2, Needs Analysis, is due today in your Google drive folder. Remember the file has a date stamp so I will be able to see when you submitted your final version.

Assignment 3, Subordinate Skills Analysis, is due for peer review next Tuesday, October 7. I'd like for you to begin drafting this document, which includes a written portion and the subordinate skills analysis flowchart. The file below contains three student examples from a previous class. Please review these examples as you draft assignment 3.

Subordinate Skills Analysis Student Examples

Step Two -- Begin to Learn about Instructional Objectives

Our next assignment involves creating and writing instructional objectives to match the skills you identified in the subordinate skills analysis. The end product of the subordinate skills analysis is a set of objectives that will then drive how we design and deliver our instructional material.

Every teacher (should) have instructional objectives in mind before walking into the classroom. In the same way, as instructional designers, you will write instructional and/or performance objectives for the instruction you design, even though you may or may not be the person who delivers it to the learners.

In place of our face-to-face class on September 30, read the following three resources:

  1. Chapters 5 and 6 of your Dick & Carey text
  2. This guide to writing objectives
  3. Dr. Lloyd Rieber's presentation on instructional objectives

Step 3 -- Write 5-7 Instructional Objectives Correctly

In this collaborative Google doc, take 5-7 skills from your subordinate skills analysis and draft five objectives, writing them based on what you learned in the reading objective. List your name and the objectives underneath; I have started the document for you.

Label your objectives by the level of Bloom's taxonomy they address by putting the taxonomy level in parentheses at the end of the objective. Again, look at the example I've left for you.

Then, go back into the document and comment on at least 2 other student's objectives, leaving suggestions and advice to help them improve the wording of their objectives. Pay particular attention to the verbs.

Completing the above steps counts into your participation grade. Please complete this before class on Thursday, October 2, so we can discuss what you've developed.

Contact me with questions!

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