There are many ways participants in an eLearning environment can be encouraged to engage not only with the content but with one another. Engagement in an eLearning course begins with the introductory Class Café-type discussion, which will set the tone for participants’ social presence. There are many creative ideas for initiating this critical, phase one of engagement. The instructional materials, a combination of readings and multimedia, will influence the cognitive presence of your eLearning course. The discussion prompts associated with the instructional materials should engage students in order to best leverage the social presence to increase student cognitive presence.
For this Assignment, you will continue to work within the “development” phase of the ADDIE model as you construct three discussion prompts and select the instructional materials for your eLearning course.
To prepare:
Review the Learning Resources related to the community of inquiry and engagement. Pay special attention to the two articles about online discussions by Toledo (2015). Reflect on the outcomes you have for your eLearning course, and consider how you might use student-student interaction to meet those outcomes. As you may recall, within this course you were required to do an introductory post that encouraged you to interact more creatively with classmates in this course. Reflect on that experience as you consider what type of introductory prompt will be most successful for your potential course participants.
Complete the “Instructional Materials” table (Stavredes & Herder, p. 92) as a framework while you decide which instructional materials to include in your eLearning course. While you think about potential discussion prompts and the instructional materials for your eLearning course, be sure to consider a mixture of readings and multimedia pieces which align with and support the instructional strategies.
By Day 7 of Week 6
Add the following to your eLearning course:
- One Class Café introductory discussion promptTwo content-related discussion prompts (Kilis & Yildirim, 2019; Martin & Bolliger, 2018; Stavredes & Herder, 2014, pp. 124–136; Toledo, 2015).
- List all instructional materials for the course, and link or embed any free materials available online.
Add the following to your eLearning course syllabus:
- List of instructional materials to be used within the course
By Day 7 of Week 6
Submit this Assignment. Place the URL of your eLearning course along with the Module 3 Assignment 2 Rubric into a document. Complete the Student-Self Assessment column, adding comments to justify the points you have awarded your work – full points are not automatic; also add the URL to your eLearning course to the space at the top of the rubric. Use correct APA form and style with scholarly writing. Provide notes for your Instructor to help him/her locate the items within your eLearning course.
Note: In order for grading to take place, submitted assignments MUST include the following:
- Correctly formatted document naming convention (see Submission and Grading Information)
- Title page that follows the Writing Center course template
- Correct APA form and style; APA formatted in-text citations for ideas from Learning Resources
- Scholarly writing with proper grammar, sentence structure, and spelling; future tense is used appropriately when referring to the proposed eLearning course
- Reference page following current APA formatting style
- Copy of the rubric with the Student Self-Assessment completed, including justification for the points awarded
Important: When these six items are not included in the submission, the instructor will not grade the assignment, will enter 0 points, and the assignment will be considered late – resulting in point deductions in line with the Late Policy.
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