Module Reading Assignment (10 mins)
Feel free to quickly review these resources and return to them as needed during your course design/development process.
Big Takeaways on Lecture
Teaching Strategies
Quality Matters’ Standard 5.1 reminds us that all learning activities should support students achieving learning objectives. Some include lectures when they refer to learning activities while others do not and use the term teaching strategies for content delivery. Both terms are used in this course, and in most cases learning activities include content delivery.
Lectures
In module 2, you were asked to describe learning activities, assessment, and assessment tools for one of your learning outcomes. You may have included video lectures as one of your teaching strategies/ learning activities. Here's a broad overview of best practices for video lectures.
Always start with the objective
Consider using a series of short videos instead of one long video
Use formative assessments and active learning techniques in between sections of the lecture
Post essential questions or takeaways for supplemental videos.
Assess prior knowledge.
Create an outline.
Make transitions obvious.
Encourage handwritten notes through lecture handout or graphic organizers (Research suggests longhand is better than typing notes).
Provide videos with closed captioning or recordings with transcripts.
Make sure that your videos sharing tool allows students to pause and rewind videos.