We met with our new research team member Sam Thomas. Sam had initially come on board as our ‘critical friend’. Sam is a great addition to the team because she is skilled at seeing the bigger picture which is really useful for this project. When you are creating learning modules it is really easy to get caught up in the creation and forget about the whole structure.
Sam had made a Padlet which listed the elements of each module. For example , when students do an activity, when they have a journal prompt etc. This helped us to clearly see the balance of elements such as assimilation, activities, journal prompts, discussion boards and assessing knowledge.
Sam reminded us of the S.H.E.D. NILE site ( Sharing Higher Education Design). On here they have really useful templates for creating learning modules.
We were also reminded that we needed to add Learning Outcomes which we had always wanted to link to the COGS (Changemaker Outcomes for Graduate Success) ones.
We have all got additional elements to add to some of the modules and will meet back next week.