Instructional Strategies and Assessment Methods

Objectives

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

Design well-defined instructional goals and learning objectives for all three domains.
Evaluate and select instructional strategies based upon front end analysis which includes a focus on providing equitable access to digital tools and resources for culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
Align appropriate instructional strategies with learning objectives.
Evaluate a variety of assessment methods for learning including authentic assessments, self and peer evaluation, rubrics, online surveys, e-portfolios, tests and mini-quizzes for self-paced tutorials.
Demonstrate research-based practices for choosing assessment models and align assessment methods with instructional strategies, objectives and learning outcomes and justify selected assessment choice.
Develop tools to evaluate instruction using formative and summative assessment methods.
Evaluate instruction based on nationally recognized quality standards for online instruction.

Project Overview

INSTRUCTIONAL NEED Hospitals reach out to JWA when they are seeking a Lean Transformation and want to improve on different aspects of their patient and staff experience. As an introduction to Lean methodology, JWA teaches different classes onsite to explain Lean principles to our adult learners. Most of the people employed in the hospital have…

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Sample Activities

In E-Learning by Design, William Horton divides the types of activities that Instructional Designers should use to assess learning into three categories: Absorb, Do, Connect. These activities should directly connect with a corresponding Terminal and Enabling Objective. Horton’s “Absorb, Do, Connect” model can be used alongside the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. These two…

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Reflection

I made major changes in my project from the first class to this one. I completely changed the direction of my project and I’m glad that I did. I changed the focus from the Airplane Simulation, which was one small piece of a greater class. Changing the focus of my project was the right decision.…

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Assessment

JWA Consulting is a Lean healthcare consulting firm. Their focus on Lean healthcare has helped clients achieve dramatic improvements in operational and clinical quality, costs, healthcare access, employee and patient safety, and physician/staff engagement. Part of JWA’s mission is to teach our clients how to become a Lean thinking organization, so when we return in…

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Alignment

The Alignment chart is important because it situates the goals or objectives of the course and the practical application or the way in which knowledge will be assessed. “Instructional design requires selecting, organizing, and specifying the learning experiences necessary to teach somebody something. Good instructional design is independent of the technology or personnel used to create…

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