Frameworks for thinking about online course development

By Dominik Lukeš

Learning Activity Matrix

Compare offline vs online methods for various learning types.

Learning Activity Matrix
Learning typeOffline methodsOnline methods
Acquisition
  • reading books, papers
  • listening to teacher presentations
  • watching demonstrations
  • master classes
  • attending Zoom lectures
  • watching videos
  • reading digital documents
  • listening to podcasts, webcasts
Collaboration
  • small group projects
  • discussing others’ outputs
  • building joint output
  • small group projects using Canvas groups
  • collaborating on a live Office 365 document
Investigation
  • analysing ideas in materials
  • collecting and analysing data
  • comparing texts
  • analysing digital resources
  • joint annotation using hypothes.is
  • using collaborative online tools
  • Wikipedia editathons
Discussion
  • tutorials
  • seminars
  • discussion groups
  • class discussions
  • Zoom break out rooms
  • student group study sessions
  • peer assessment in Canvas
  • group live editing of documents
Practice
  • practising exercises
  • doing practice-based projects
  • labs
  • field trips
  • role-play
  • using models
  • quizzes
  • simulations
  • virtual labs
  • online role-play activities
Production
  • student-produced videos
  • models
  • artefacts
  • performances
  • reports
  • essays
  • physical portfolios
  • producing digital documents
  • representations of designs
  • digital artefacts
  • slideshows
  • blogs
  • e-portfolios

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