The Course Plan

In order to meet our course outcome, demonstrate the integration of best practices from Open SUNY Course Quality Review (OSCQR) into online course design and management, we will need to begin by identifying our course outcomes and then module objectives.  Backward design will then guide us to assessment tools - to measure if students are meeting objectives and ultimately course-level outcomes.  Once we have our outcomes and how we will measure learning we can then integrate content that supports students in achieving the module objectives!  

At this point, you should have already created a copy of the Course Plan and shared it with your instructional designer for comments and feedback.  However, if you have not and need a copy of the course plan, here ya go!  You will continue to work from this document through the remainder of this course.

The course plan will ask you to detail each major component of your course through each week or module.In this class, we'll work on a course plan that asks you to: 
  1. Outline your weekly/module-level objectives, and how you'll assess student learning throughout 
  2. The activities and content you'll present that support module objectives
  3. How you'll build for (or revise for) accessibility 
  4. Your plans for how you'll support yourself and students through the class.
That's a lot in a little document!  But we'll take it step-by-step.



As you navigate through the course plan document, you will see areas to fill in for each week of the term. These areas help you in planning out the rough details for each week/module. At the end of the course, you'll have a complete plan that you can talk through with your instructional designer.

Keep the end in sight and chunk out the work

It's difficult to build an entire course plan all at once; this course leads you through a step-by-step process. The first two things we'll talk about are:

  1. Designing backward from your outcomes to build a course that helps students learn what they need to, when they need to, in a way that's realistic for your own work process.
  2. Building support throughout the course for yourself and your students, so that everyone is getting what they need from our available resources when they need it.

Learner Expectations

This module is built for asynchronous participation, meaning you can complete the online pieces at any time.  However, you may also elect to Pick a group [optional] and share course plans and brainstorm ideas = help each other.  


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