Creating the course outline is the primary requisite for the content and the activities you plan to have in the course.

1. Course Outline
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2. Instructional designing
• Backward is forward thinking
Learning
Outcome
Content
Selection
Content
Creation

3. Backward Strategy
• Establish a framework or structure for the
course
• Develop and align outcomes and
assessments.
• This includes:
– Writing the course outcomes
– Defining the course structure
– Determining the evaluation strategies
– Writing the unit outcomes
– Defining the unit structure

4. Sequence the learning
• Students' learning activities should grow in
a logical progression from simple to more
complex.
Simple
Content
Essential
Skill
Development
Complex
Skills
Complex
Learning
experience

5. Designing
• Deciding
– what to teach (content and other skills);
– how to teach ( lecture, demonstration, case
studies, role playing, etc.)

6. Audience
• Prospective audience
• Learners' technical background
• 2 Strategies
– Existing Audience
• Design and create a course according to them
– Create an audience
• Design and create a course for them

7. Duration
• Modules
• Time students are expected to invest per
week/per module
– Considering an average student

8. Course Outline
• What
– Content
– Online materials
– Resources
– Activities
will the course include

9. Amount of Content
• Considering students will need time to
study
• Choosing the minimum amount of content
for the course for it to be academically
sound
• Allowing students time for activities such
as individual research, assignments or
project work

10. Student Work Flow
• Instructor must choose about
– how to structure the course
– how to control the student work flow
• Students could do the course more quickly
or more slowly, if they wished.

11. Course Availability
• Do not have continuous enrolment, or self-
paced instruction
• If you plan to
– Make heavy use of online discussion forums
– Online group work
• However, in courses, such as a math
course, self-paced instruction may be a
better option.

12. Methodology
Synchronous
• Live Meeting
• Text based chat
• Screen share
• Web Camera
• White Board
Asynchronous
• Lesson Content
• Calendar
• Announcements
• Course Emails
• Discussion Forums
• Quiz/Tests
• Grade Book
• Data for analysis

13. Synchronous Sessions
• Micro Lectures
– Clear Understanding
– Easy to conduct
– Focus on specific topic
– Specific Objects- Not broad Objectives
– Student leaves the session having learned the
essential knowledge and skills.

14. Research
• Search for and go through similar courses
on the internet
• After you have set your goals and
objectives. You do not want to teach what
others are teaching.
• Still, it is a good idea to know what is
going on around us.

15. Task 1- Course Foundation
• Philosophy
• Goals
• Objectives
• Need Assessment

16. Task 2- Course Outline
• Course Map
• Duration
• Audience
• Title
• Types of content
• Delivery method (Syn/Asyn)
• Number of modules
• Number of topics per module (consistent, 1-2 more or
less acceptable)
• Module Objectives
• Assessment outline
– Topics Wise
– Module wise
– Major Assessment

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