assignment 1 elearning course design assignment

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Backwards design has been used to develop your eLearning course. In previous modules you identified learning outcomes, obtained learning materials, and decided what type of assessment would indicate a student had met that outcome. Participants in your eLearning course will most likely remember the assignment activity you have them do for some time after the course, so it is important that the assignment not only meets the outcome but encourages course participants to be creative. In this module you will write the tasks or assignments for your eLearning course as well as the rubrics instructors will use to assess them.

To prepare:

Review the learning outcomes of your eLearning course, the learning materials you have identified, the alignment chart you started in Module 2, and the assignment idea you generated earlier in the quarter. Refer back to McTighe’s article “Understanding by Design” (2014). He provides a list of questions that support instructional designers as they construct the learning activities for a course. He uses the W.H.E.R.E.T.O. elements that represent questions to consider during the construction of learning tasks. Brainstorm to develop a list of potential assignments to meet the outcome and settle on a single assignment idea.

By Day 7 of Week 10

Add the following to your eLearning course:

  • Course Assignment
    • Post assignment description describing tasks
    • Post a rubric or scoring guide for assignment (Stavredes & Herder, 2014; pp. 149–153)
    • Post, link, and embed any support materials needed to complete the assignment.
    • Post directions for submitting the assignment.

Add the following to your eLearning course syllabus:

  • Intellectual property and plagiarism policy

By Day 7 of Week 10

Submit this Assignment. Place the URL of your eLearning course into a document with the Module 5 Assignment 1 Rubric. Add notes to your Instructor to help them locate the items within your eLearning course. Complete the Student-Self Assessment column, adding comments to justify the points you have awarded your work – full points are not automatic; also add the URL to your eLearning course to the space at the top of the rubric. Use correct APA form and style with scholarly writing. If these requirements are not met, the assignment will not be graded.

Note: In order for grading to take place, submitted assignments MUST include the following:

  1. Correctly formatted document naming convention (see Submission and Grading Information)
  2. Title page that follows the Writing Center course template
  3. Correct APA form and style; APA formatted in-text citations for ideas from Learning Resources
  4. Scholarly writing with proper grammar, sentence structure, and spelling; future tense is used appropriately when referring to the proposed eLearning course
  5. Reference page following current APA formatting style
  6. Copy of the rubric with the Student Self-Assessment completed, including justification for the points awarded

Important: When these six items are not included in the submission, the instructor will not grade the assignment, will enter 0 points, and the assignment will be considered late