These activities involve your own proposed online learning resource. As you do them, keep in mind the learners you have chosen to serve.

Activity 15: Organizing Your Resource

• Following the guidance offered in Sesison 7, make a list of no more than five instructional objectives for your own resource. (Fewer is fine.)

  Check the language you use against the criteria specified in in the Session:

  • Do your objectives specify learner behaviors that demonstrate how well they have mastered the content of your site?

  • Have you specified behaviors that can be observed and assessed?

Activity 16: Making a Content List
Make a list of topics. Don't worry about their order now -- just try to mention whatever belongs. The list should be driven by what your learners need to know, not by you and what you "feel like" teaching.

If you are weak in certain areas, accept that part of your task is going to be boning up on those topics or recruiting the expertise that you lack.

Within topics, express the desired learning outcomes in terms of observable learner behaviors -- that is, as instructional objectives.

Activity 17: Pathways to Mastery
Your objectives are the endpoints of instruction. How will your learners get there? What content will you need to present? What activities will help them practice their new learning, and demonstrate their progress?

• For each objective identified in Activity 1, briefly sketch a "primary route" -- a sequence to follow when you present new content and related learning activities -- that should enable a "typical" learner to reach the objective.

  Take into consideration both the learners' starting point and the new knowledge you want them to master.

  Don't worry yet about technology; concentrate on ways of teaching the material that your experience in the classroom suggests will work.

• For each objective, propose at least one alternate route or additional learning support to accomodate differences you expect to see in the learning styles, technical capacities or abilities of the learners who come to your site.

  The assumption here is that all learners can reach the objectives, perhaps by different routes or with different kinds of support.