Audio for the Classroom Best Practices
(View Complete Item Description)This document provides a series of tips for improving the production quality of multimedia created for UMGC courses.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
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Content Needs Identification Template
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this document is to help the program director begin outlining the learning needs of a program and to uncover learning needs that might not be met by the current capabilities and tools.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Graphic Arts for the Classroom Best Practices
(View Complete Item Description)This document provides a series of tips for improving the production quality of graphic arts content created for UMGC courses.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Incorporating Teamwork into a Course or Program
(View Complete Item Description)This resource provides useful tips on how instructors can promote teams and teamwork in their course or program.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Learner Profile Template
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this template is to develop profiles for what the typical student entering a program will be like, including skills, knowledge, and other attributes, and to develop a profile of what graduates from a specific program should be like, particularly in what learners should know and be able to do.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Producing Quality Videos for the Classroom
(View Complete Item Description)This document provides a series of tips for improving the production quality of videos created for UMGC courses.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Program Design Roadmap
(View Complete Item Description)This document is used as a programmatic planning tool. First, stakeholders collaborate to map out the goals and key elements at a program level. Then, with these goals and elements in mind, stakeholders design each course.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Project Strategy Template
(View Complete Item Description)This template will guide faculty or program directors in how to map out a course into competencies, deliverables, learning topics, course-specific materials, and so forth.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Writing Instructions for Learners
(View Complete Item Description)This resource provides guidance to faculty on 1) how to compose instructions that provide learners with sufficient information to complete the deliverables and allow faculty to accurately assess competencies and 2) how to present instructions in a way that encourages learners to notice, remember, and follow through on critical features of the assignment.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Course Design Roadmap
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of the roadmap is to design the overall architecture of a course. This resource can be used to map a course’s activities so that the team can ensure good alignment and sequencing of the assignments.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Culturally Sound Course Design
(View Complete Item Description)This document will help you to review courses for culturally sound design, as well as design courses with better awareness.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy