Design Your Assignment

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

  • Utilize the Designing a Renewable Assignments Part 1 and 2 resources to design your own renewable assignment

Renewable Assignment Design Framework

If you already have an assignment that you would like to rework into a renewable one, use the following framework and worksheets to reclassify your assignment. If you don’t have an assignment you’d like to rework , take another look at these open pedagogy examples for inspiration and create a new assignment.

The OER Starter Kit Workbook by Abby Elder and Stacy Katz provides a two part worksheet to guide instructors, step by step, through the Renewable Assignment Framework to rework an existing assignment into a renewable assignment:

Designing a Renewable Assignment, Part 1

Designing a Renewable Assignment, Part 2


Concept Review

Now it is time for you to design your own renewable assignment.

Using the Designing a Renewable Assignment, Part 1:

Step 1. Assess your assignment

Step 2. Reflect on the type of assignment that might be useful for your course

Step 3. Make it renewable

Step 4: Write an Assignment Description

Using the Designing a Renewable Assignment, Part 2:

  1. Fill out the Example Assignment Outline Table

  2. Put together your final assignment description (as explained under the Pulling in All Together Section)

Attributions

Tools for Implementing Renewable Assignments from from The OER Starter Kit Workbook by Abbey K. Elder & Stacy Katz, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.


"Renewable Assignment Design Framework" by Jennifer Van Allen & Stacy Katz is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0