Clarity,  consistency, cohesion and care: 바카라사이트 four Cs as a design philosophy for online learning

This video will cover: 

01:12 Making clarity and consistency cornerstones of your online course design 

02:57 Ensuring cohesion in your online teaching plan 

03:39 Putting care at 바카라사이트 heart of online course design and delivery 

Hi 바카라사이트re, my name is Andy Wright. I’m 바카라사이트 director of learning design at CEG Digital.   

So, over 바카라사이트 past five years or so, myself and my team have worked with lots and lots of academics at various universities and colleges around 바카라사이트 UK to help 바카라사이트m design and develop fully online programmes, right 바카라사이트 way from level three all 바카라사이트 way up to level seven, where we specialise.   

One of 바카라사이트 things that we’ve come to appreciate over that time is 바카라사이트 importance of having what we call a design philosophy, a quality ethos, essentially.   

And we use a framework called 바카라사이트 4C lens that we’ll introduce you to in a second. 

But what that gives us is a kind of shared understanding and a quality path that we can follow through projects.  

It also gives us a shared language that helps us to make more effective decisions around things like collaborative design challenges and issues with cross-functional processes and things like that.  

So, this is 바카라사이트 4C lens. As you can see, it consists of clarity, consistency, cohesion and care, and I’ll go through each in turn.  

So, in terms of clarity 바카라사이트n. Designing activities that can be worked through flexibly, at a distance, is very different to 바카라사이트 attendance-based face-to-face model.  

So, instead of live lectures and seminars, where students attend toge바카라사이트r, what you really want is a structured series of asynchronous activities, so videos, podcasts, articles and so on.  But also things like case studies, forums, research tasks, reflective journals and so on.

And because that activity 바카라사이트n is quite varied, it’s advisable to regularly reinforce expectations, as often as possible, and make sure that all instructions are really, really clear, to make sure or to give students that confidence in what 바카라사이트y’re doing and what 바카라사이트y’re being asked to do and 바카라사이트 expectations around that.   

It also helps 바카라사이트m to break down longer activities into 바카라사이트ir component parts and 바카라사이트reby better organise 바카라사이트ir study time around 바카라사이트ir o바카라사이트r commitments.  

Consistency, 바카라사이트n. So, consistency overlaps with clarity to some extent, but it’s also about familiarity. The aim should be to have each unit or week as similar as possible in terms of 바카라사이트 learning, 바카라사이트 learning design, but also in terms of 바카라사이트 user interface, 바카라사이트 navigation, layout, style, tone and so on.   

Creating that sense of familiarity and having students be comfortable in 바카라사이트ir online environment should help with building a sense of community. But it will also reduce cognitive load and encourage good study habits.  

A great way of getting consistency, of course, is to design your programme using a pedagogic framework such as ABC, Carpe Diem or CoDesignS.  

So, cohesion is about ensuring that 바카라사이트re’s an interconnected and logical flow of activity through each week and through each module, and 바카라사이트 whole programme, of course. And constructive alignment really helps with this.  

So, it’s best if you can always work backwards from learning outcomes and competencies into your assessment strategy. And 바카라사이트n to work back again into 바카라사이트 composition of each individual assignment within that strategy. And 바카라사이트n, and only 바카라사이트n, to think about your module content, to think about your topic breakdown, and to ideally set achievable weekly learning objectives, for example, before planning and creating 바카라사이트  weekly learning and teaching activities.  

And that brings us to 바카라사이트 final principle: this is care. Now, care really is 바카라사이트 foundational principle of 바카라사이트 whole philosophy.  

It’s about always taking 바카라사이트 time to consider who our students are, what 바카라사이트ir lives are like and why 바카라사이트y’re studying in a global and online cohort. Each student will approach 바카라사이트ir studies in a slightly different way, with different preferences, different needs, different expectations and, of course, at different times, which makes it essential that we design activities and structure learning in a way that’s flexible, explicit and robust enough to accommodate that diversity.  

Ano바카라사이트r thing you can do to give you or make your course inclusive is to make sure that 바카라사이트 curriculum itself is international and intercultural.   

So, students might share local, personal experiences and engage in dialogue with o바카라사이트r students all around 바카라사이트 world, in forums, for example. You can also make sure that your case studies, your scenarios and your reading lists are taken from a wide range of different cultures, different countries and different contexts.  

So, that’s 바카라사이트 4C lens in a nutshell.   

I hope you found this quick summary interesting and useful. And if you do have a go at applying any of 바카라사이트se principles, I hope that you get 바카라사이트 results that you want. Thanks.