Mapping your approach
Mapping your course materials (resources and assessments) to your learning objectives will help you avoid creating a course that confuses students, and it will help them achieve their learning goals.
The best sequence for mapping is to follow a simple workflow, depicted as follows:
- Identify your learning objectives.
- Create a course sequence (chapters or units).
- Write the specific learning goals for each chapter or unit, and tie them to your main learning objectives.
- For each unit or chapter, you'll have the following:
- Chapter learning objectives
- Course content (directly tied to learning goals)
- Activities (should be measurable and tied directly to your learning objectives)
One popular way to create a course map is to develop a spreadsheet that creates an "at a glance" planning guide. Here is a very simple example of an initial course map. We will build it out further a bit later and use it as the foundation for the CDD...
