Designing Learning Activities For Different Learning Modalities

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Have you ever had to teach a course or workshop either face-to-face or online, where you have a lot of content to share, but you don't know what learning activities you can implement to check that students have acquired the skills, knowledge or competencies you were looking for?

There are many types of learning activities, however some are more recommended than others depending on certain factors such as the modality in which the course is being taught, the academic discipline or the objectives or competences that are sought to be achieved.

This path is for all people focused on training, teaching or instructional design in different learning modalities. When the path ends, you will be able to identify the main elements to design effective learning activities based on the needs of the audience.

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First of all, we need to identify that there are two main types of learning activities, these can also be known as formative and summative assessment, and in the same way, keep in mind that learning activities can be designed differently according to the modality in which the course or workshop is taught. With the following activities you will learn the difference between summative and formative assessment and the role of the learning modality.

When we design a course and want to define useful learning activities, we must always start from an alignment between the different elements that go into the overall design of the course, this is called alignment and backward design. In this process we must take into account the following elements: 1. What are the learning objectives we want to achieve. 2. How the achievement of the learning objectives will be evaluated. 3. What learning activities will support the development of necessary knowledge and skills. 4. What content needs to be provided to the student. 5. What technology is available for the course. With the following activities you will learn what Alignment is, how you can use the Action Mapping technique to achieve it, and how to design learning objectives to be your guides in this process.

The alignment, as we saw in the previous section, must be kept between five elements inside a course. But in the same way, the learning activities need to be aligned with the pedagogical model that is implemented, two common examples of these are: the model based on learning objectives and the model based on competencies. Let's learn in the following activities what each one means, its differences and how to design learning activities after all the elements we learned along this path.

When we are faced with teaching either a workshop or a full course, it is important to know these basic principles of pedagogy, start with the basics of how we were doing on this path, and progress to more complex levels of didactic. I invite you to put these strategies into practice and use learning activities that meet the criteria of the authentic assessment in order to help the development of the students.

How Do You Create Authentic Assessments? (Toolbox)
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Curated by Pablo Alejandro Olguin

Olguin is a Mexican specialist in instructional design for online courses developed by the Inter-American Development Bank in the IDBx program. Graduate in Pedagogy and Master in Educational Research with experience in Instructional Design, e-learning projects, as well as in design and implementation of pedagogical strategies in face-to-face, hybrid and distance modalities in higher education. He has worked training teachers in competency-based learning at the Tecnológico de Monterrey México.

Designing Learning Activities For Different Learning Modalities

Understanding what learning activities are and the role of the learning modality

Formative vs. Summative Assessments: What's the Difference?

The importance of the learning modality

Alignment to articulate learning activities with learning objectives

What is Alignment and Backward Design?

Action Mapping as a tool to ensure alignment

How to design learning objectives

Align activities with the learning model

The importance of aligning learning activities with learning objectives

Planning and selection of learning activities

Bloom's Taxonomy as a guide to define learning activities aligned to learning objectives

What if we are in a competency-based model?

Authentic Assessment

Conclusion

How Do You Create Authentic Assessments? (Toolbox)

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