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Learning Objectives Alignment

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Here are some common learning activities and tool alignment.  These are just suggested uses, feel free to get creative!

 

Some of the common learning objectives are:

 

  • Express clear, coherent thoughts through writing
  • Collaboratively write or build documents
  • Analyze or critique existing work
  • Connect course topics with current events or personal experience
  • Debate and discuss issues in the field topic
  • Conduct research, contribute to course content repository
  • Synthesize various perspectives about the topic or concept
  • Reflect on learning, metacognition
  • Teach others about topics and course content
  • Review the work of classmates
  • Take class notes
  • Ask a question / get assistance
  • Share work / learn by social example
  • Create community
  • Learn discipline language; Develop information organization skills
  • 21st Century Skill: Develop information-filtering skills
  • 21st Century Skill: Learn how to be accountable for information
  • 21st Century Skill: Develop technical capacity

 

Please see below for example tool alignments and strategies.  Again, these are examples, feel free to get creative with your use of the tools.  Also, if your learning objective is not here, comment on the page and we will try to address it. 

 

For more information about each tool, please refer to the toolbox page.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVE / ACTIVITY TOOL EXAMPLE STRATEGIES
Express clear, coherent thoughts through writing  Blog  express personal ideas and thoughts through a blog post 
  Wiki  generate a collaborative document (i.e. create a Wikipedia entry for a topic, or develop a summary page for the course on a topic); proper attribution or linking of sources 
  Forum  debate or discuss a topic or question with examples from readings or other sources as support 
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Collaboratively build documents, collaborative writing Wiki build document or report in wiki page(s) where group members all have access to edit and review revisions 
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Analyze and critique work/discipline  Blog  write a reading response to critique organizer-provided readings or published works 
  Wiki  summarize and categorize reviews of material; collaboratively build a review or summary of an opposing or another perspective 
  Forum  discuss/debate issues, topics, readings with others; generate questions to ask organizer or peers 
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Connect course topics with current events, personal experience or other concepts  Blog  find and post discussion of a news story or current event, describe relevance and tag accordingly 
  Wiki summarize and categorize course topics and concepts in a unique way
  Social Bookmarking find web resources, add them to the course repository and tag them with course concepts/taxonomy
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Debate and discuss issues in the field topic Blog express an argument on a particular topic, comment on other ideas, use comments to further discussion
  Forum debate/discussion various issues or questions either prompted by organizer or peer-led; justify, conclude, defend, critique points of view
  Wiki create topic pages with linked talk pages where peers can discuss the topic; create a wiki page summarizing a discussion from the forum or chat
  Chat discuss issues in real-time; assign a particular perspective or persona to each course member to represent in the discussion
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Conduct research, contribute to course content repository
 Social bookmarking find, store and share relevant resources; evaluate the relevance, usefulness and authority of a source; content management of resources
  Wiki

collaboratively build resource repositories (i.e. annotated bibliographies) and share references, attribute properly 
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Synthesize various perspectives about topic or concept Blog write a post to summarize all perspectives; write a post with the voice of one perspective
  Wiki create and/or edit pages that summarize and synthesize varying perspectives
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Reflect on learning; metacognition Blog write a daily/weekly learning/reflection journal, with thoughts about learning, reactions to readings, etc.
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Responsibility for learning, ability to teach others about the topic Blog write a daily/weekly learning journal as a blog post that others can read, reflect on learning and how to help others understand
  Wiki “own” a portion of the course material and create/build topic pages and lesson plans
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Peer assessment, review work of others Comments (Blog posts, Wiki pages, Forum replies, etc.) peers give feedback, review or evaluate each other’s work through comments on the post
  Wiki peers write reviews of course member work and post on wiki page or linked talk page 
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Take class notes Wiki share personal notes on the lecture with peers; designate course member to take notes during class or discussion session for the class
  Forum designate course member to track or formulate open questions in the forum for peers to revisit and discuss
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Ask a question, get assistance Forum  ask about a concept or assignment and allow all the members to view and contribute responses
  Wiki create an FAQ document where peer questions are compiled and answers are available to all
  Chat have office hours or peer-to-peer time in the chatroom where course members can ask/answer questions
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Share work, learn by example Blog post summary of work with link to file
  Wiki each course member build wiki page for an assignment or other work, shared with peers; build a wiki page per assignment with links to peer work files
  Forum post sample exam questions as forum topics for peers to discuss and build answers
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Create community

Blog

 post personal interpretations and thoughts; comment on others’ posts
  Forum post a question about course member background and objectives from course as a forum topic and have each respond 
  Wiki create a wiki page for course member summaries and have each post a paragraph about themselves and their objectives
  Chat get to know peers through more informal real-time conversation and discussion
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Learn discipline language, develop information organization skills Blog create course taxonomy and have course members tag posts or encourage them to write a post about a particular topic (tag)
  Wiki create a glossary of discipline-specific words or have course members develop it throughout the course
  Social Bookmarking create course taxonomy and have course members tag resources appropriately; have them create the taxonomy through bookmarks
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21st Century Skill: Develop information-filtering skills
 Blog, Forum, Wiki, or Social Bookmarking have course members find/use sources on the Web to support their arguments or perspectives
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21st Century Skill: Learn how to be accountable for information Blog, Forum, Wiki, or Social Bookmarking course members write posts or add resources knowing other peers will read and learn from them
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21st Century Skill: Develop technical capacity Blog, Forum, Wiki, or Social Bookmarking use the tools to learn how to technically post text and images, edit HTML and other basic Web skills

 

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