According to the Quality Matters Rubric, ensuring course alignment is a foundation of effective course design. The concept of alignment emphasizes that critical course components must support and assess the learner’s achievement of clearly stated learning objectives. In this asynchronous course, participants will learn how to write effective Course and Module Level Learning Objectives that are written from the learner’s perspective and match the overall level of the course according to Bloom’s Taxonomy. They will then identify how to ensure the alignment of these objectives with the following course components: assessments, instructional materials, learning activities, and course technology tools. An examination will be made of both proper alignment and misalignment, and participants will engage in a discussion forum to explore possible solutions for the latter. Participants will also take quizzes to assess their ability to identify elements of alignment. Finally, participants will learn common strategies to display alignment prominently to students and share their plan on communicating course alignment in their own course design.
- Teacher: Andrea Leonard
- Teacher: Yanzhu Wu