Chapter 10

Upping Engagement with a Rolodex of Material

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Taking inventory of the material you have available

Bullet Transforming a static activity

Bullet Designing an active learning activity

Bullet Creating an alternative assessment

As an instructor, you often are responsible for developing content. And let’s be honest, you have your work cut out for you. Between needs analysis, building learning objectives, and managing mandated internal policies and resources, you begin to wonder when you’ll have time to create, tweak, and evolve the content required for the course.

Don’t worry … help is on hand. By following the advice and activities provided in this chapter, you’ll be able to produce exceptional content for your course. It starts, though, with getting organized!

Tip Content development should begin by leveraging content you or others have previously created. Why?

  • Already-created content doesn’t need to be as heavily vetted as newly developed material.
  • Existing content often needs just ...

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