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WEEK # ]
[ WEEK TITLE ]
DESCRIPTION
/ OVERVIEW OF WEEK
[insert:
Provide two or three sentences describing the Week generally. A learning
week is a quantity of work, usually 5-8 hours. One week may cover more
or less than one chapter, more or less than one week.]
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
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Provide a rationale for learning the content to be covered. And/or
instructions to the learner on how to proceed. What knowledge and/or
skills will the student acquire by completing the Week? What is the
learner expected to achieve?]
TOPICS
TO BE COVERED
[insert:
Provide a list of topics to be covered by the Week.]
CHECKPOINT
/ REVIEW
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If appropriate, provide a review of facts, concepts, techniques, skills
needed to understand or maximize learning of the current Week. A review
serves as a mechanism for stimulating recall of prior learning. A review
should be used whenever a Week requires learners to utilize specific
information which they have learned in previous Weeks or in a previous
course. A review may be either a list of key ideas or a series of
questions covering the main points or critical information learned in
previous Weeks. A review should not be included in Weeks for
which there are no prerequisites.]
REQUIRED
READINGS FROM TEXTBOOK
[insert:
Provide a list of required readings from the course textbook(s). Give
Chapter, Unit, Topic and page numbers. ]
If this information is provided in the course schedule you link
students to that document.
RECOMMENDED
READINGS AND/OR RESOURCES
[insert:
Further readings and resources are an important "value-add"
for students with special interests.]
ADDITIONAL
REQUIRED READINGS
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Provide a list of readings that are not from the prescribed
text(s). Required 'readings' may be from sources such as:
- Content
pages on WebCT
- Postings
in the WebCT Discussions tool
- Other
'external' Web sites
- Content
files (e.g. Power Point, Acrobat, Word docs,
etc.)
- Graphical
materials
- Completion
of an online tutorial
- Completion
of some part of a CD-ROM
- Listening
to audio tapes or files
- Viewing
video tapes or files
- Other]
REQUIRED
RESEARCH
[insert:
"Catch a starving man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a
starving man how to fish, and you feed him for the rest of his
life." Often what a person knows is less important than his ability
to find out. Teach students how to do research and how to keep current
in the field. This is a major "value-add" in any course.]
WEB
LINKS
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Provide links to Web resources.]
INSTRUCTOR'S
NOTES
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INSTRUCTOR'S NOTES should not replicate the contents of the
textbook. Rather, the intent is to supplement that content. The aim here
is to use the capabilities of computer technology to explore and
demonstrate concepts, procedures, and principles in ways that cannot be
achieved through the text medium. Provide any of the following that are not
found in the textbook:
- Analysis
- Anecdotes
- Applications
- Personal
interpretation
- Emphasis
- De-emphasis
- Examples
- Illustrations
- Simulations
- Commentary
- Other.]
ACTIVITIES
(not included in final grade)
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Many people learn by doing. Provide students with drills, exercises,
mini-projects, self-assessments, self-quizzes, questions/issues for
discussion, etc. Activities may be marked, but the marks are not
included in the student's final grade. Self-assessments provide learners
with an opportunity to assess the degree to which they have mastered the
week content. These can be very effective ego-boosters in an e-learning
environment where learners more or less study alone. Provide learners
with the opportunity to have a perfect score by allowing them unlimited
attempts on the self-assessment.]
EVALUATION
(included in final grade)
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Ideally, every Learning Week should include at least one Assignment
that is marked and the mark included in the final grade. It is better to
have many short, simple Assignments in a course, than it is to have just
just one or two complex ones. Immediate feedback helps students learn.
The Assessments Tool on WebCT is very powerful. It can
deliver a quiz, mark it, display the results to the student immediately,
and enter the mark in the grades book. The Assessments tool can
also provides the Instructor with extensive analysis and statistical
options.]
SUMMARY
+ NEXT STEPS
[insert:
Provide a summary to synthesize the knowledge taught in the week. Finish
with explicit instructions as to what the student should do next.]
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