Developing Learning Activities

What are learning activities?

Learning activities, that require students to actively ‘do something’ with the content and concepts presented in the course and then reflect on the learning. Learning activities vary in interaction (student↔content, student↔faculty, and student↔student). Plan a mix of these types of interactions when designing learning activities. It is important to establish that "learning activities must also be designed so that the learning leads to the achievement of the course and program outcomes." (Wasserman et al.)

We make a distinction from the term, course activities, are all the activities you include in your course. These could be graded and ungraded activities and involve faculty and/or students; announcements, discussions, assignments, journals, group work, peer review, etc. 

Student learning outcomes are statements that describe the knowledge or skills students should acquire by the end of a particular assignment, class, course, or program, and help students understand why that knowledge and those skills will be useful to them.

Assessment strategies when developing  learning activities

Assessment strategies

Formative assessment

Summative assessment

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