{"id":391,"date":"2023-09-20T23:22:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T03:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=391"},"modified":"2024-08-19T11:08:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:08:14","slug":"course-alignment-summary","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/chapter\/course-alignment-summary\/","title":{"raw":"Summary","rendered":"Summary"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Advantages of course alignment exercise<\/h2>\r\n<strong>Evaluate the quality<\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Conducting a course alignment exercise will help you evaluate the quality of your course design and the learning experience for your students.<\/p>\r\n<strong>Validate course design<\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Validating that a course is well-aligned can help uncover gaps or problem spots that may impact teaching excellence and hinder student learning.<\/p>\r\n<strong>Optimize course design<\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">The overarching goal with an alignment exercise is to optimize the teaching, learning and evaluation activities in a course.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Five principles for effective course design<\/h2>\r\nMeyers and Nulty (2009) identify five design principles that are key to effective course design in higher education. They require teaching and learning materials and experiences that:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>are authentic and relevant;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>are constructive, sequential, and scaffolded;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>require students to engage in higher-order thinking;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>are aligned with each other and the course outcomes; and<\/li>\r\n \t<li>are challenging, interesting, and provide motivation to learn.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Process of course alignment<\/h2>\r\nA course alignment exercise follows a sequential process:\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1920\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2023\/09\/course-alignment-process-1.jpeg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2023\/09\/course-alignment-process-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Flowchart illustrating course alignment process progressing from: first, review your course learning outcomes; second, analyze the course assessments; third, analyze teaching resources and learning activities.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2023\/09\/course-alignment-process-1.jpeg\" \/><\/a> Bullseye, checklist, and media icons designed by Freepik.[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/teachingacademy.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/letter-summary-course-alignment-version1.pdf\">Download course alignment summary (pdf).<\/a>","rendered":"<h2>Advantages of course alignment exercise<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Evaluate the quality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Conducting a course alignment exercise will help you evaluate the quality of your course design and the learning experience for your students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Validate course design<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Validating that a course is well-aligned can help uncover gaps or problem spots that may impact teaching excellence and hinder student learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Optimize course design<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">The overarching goal with an alignment exercise is to optimize the teaching, learning and evaluation activities in a course.<\/p>\n<h2>Five principles for effective course design<\/h2>\n<p>Meyers and Nulty (2009) identify five design principles that are key to effective course design in higher education. They require teaching and learning materials and experiences that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are authentic and relevant;<\/li>\n<li>are constructive, sequential, and scaffolded;<\/li>\n<li>require students to engage in higher-order thinking;<\/li>\n<li>are aligned with each other and the course outcomes; and<\/li>\n<li>are challenging, interesting, and provide motivation to learn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Process of course alignment<\/h2>\n<p>A course alignment exercise follows a sequential process:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2023\/09\/course-alignment-process-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2023\/09\/course-alignment-process-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Flowchart illustrating course alignment process progressing from: first, review your course learning outcomes; second, analyze the course assessments; third, analyze teaching resources and learning activities.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2023\/09\/course-alignment-process-1.jpeg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bullseye, checklist, and media icons designed by Freepik.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teachingacademy.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/letter-summary-course-alignment-version1.pdf\">Download course alignment summary (pdf).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-391","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":118,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/391\/revisions\/593"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/118"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/391\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/course-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}