Course Design
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Course design includes elements such as the structure of the course, learning objectives and instructional strategies (Blackboard Exemplary Course Program, 2007). When designing a course to be completely delivered over the internet we need to carefully consider the instruction and learning processes. Instruction, either face to face or mediated by computers, will facilitate learning when it supports the internal events of information processing (Gagné, Wager, Golas & Keller, 2005). According to Gagné et al. (2005) different kinds of activities are related to the learning process:
- Simulation to gain attention to ensure the reception of stimuli
- Informing learners of the learning goals to establish appropriate expectations
- Reminding learners of previously learned content for retrieval from long-term memory
- Clear and distinctive presentation of material to ensure selective perception
- Guidance of learning by suitable semantic encoding
- Eliciting performance, involving response generation
- Providing feedback about performance
- Assessing the performances involving additional response feedback occasions
- Arranging variety of practice to aid future retrieval and transfer
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