The document outlines the instructional design framework for courses at Code Wiz Academy, emphasizing backward design, course structure, and aligning outcomes with assessments. It discusses strategies for content delivery, audience considerations, course duration, and methodologies for synchronous and asynchronous learning. Additionally, it highlights the importance of researching existing courses to inform course creation and provides a two-task framework for developing course foundations and outlines.

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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