Course Syllabus
Course Information
This course is an introduction to instructional design.
High-level Learning Outcome
Students will gain the capacity to design effective learning opportunities that (1) can bless the lives of millions of people and (2) get better over time.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Design
- Students are thoughtful about the meaning of the term “design” and have a personal definition that guides their work
Effective learning opportunities
- Aligns goals, assessments, and activities
- Employs methods known to have high probabilities of effectiveness
- Formative assessments frame and focus human interactions
Bless the lives of millions of people
- Scales to serve large numbers of people
- Affordable by essentially everyone in the world
Get better over time
- Leverages assessment and non-assessment data
- Uses materials that provide permission for improvement
Grading
Grades will be awarded along 10 percentage point bands - 100-90: A, 89-80: B, etc.
Late Work
Late work will not be accepted without significant penalties.
Library Information
Librarian Information
Name: Rachel Wadham
Office: 1223 HBLL
Phone Number: 422-6780
Email: rachel_wadham@byu.edu
Reference Desk Information
Name: Social Sciences / Education
Phone Number: 422-6228
Email: No library information available
Hours: M-Th : 8am-9pm; F: 8am-6pm; Sat: 10am-6pm
Department Research Information
http://guides.lib.byu.edu/content.php?pid=38325University Policies
BYU Honor Code
In keeping with the principles of the BYU Honor Code, students are expected to be honest in all of their academic work. Academic honesty means, most fundamentally, that any work you present as your own must in fact be your own work and not that of another. Violations of this principle may result in a failing grade in the course and additional disciplinary action by the university. Students are also expected to adhere to the Dress and Grooming Standards. Adherence demonstrates respect for yourself and others and ensures an effective learning and working environment. It is the university's expectation, and my own expectation in class, that each student will abide by all Honor Code standards. Please call the Honor Code Office at 422-2847 if you have questions about those standards.
Preventing Sexual Discrimination and Harassment
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination against any participant in an educational program or activity that receives federal funds. The act is intended to eliminate sex discrimination in education. Title IX covers discrimination in programs, admissions, activities, and student-to-student sexual harassment. BYU's policy against sexual harassment extends not only to employees of the university, but to students as well. If you encounter unlawful sexual harassment or gender-based discrimination, please talk to your professor; contact the Equal Employment Office at 422-5895 or 367-5689 (24-hours); or contact the Honor Code Office at 422-2847.
Students with Disabilities
Brigham Young University is committed to providing a working and learning atmosphere that reasonably accommodates qualified persons with disabilities. If you have any disability which may impair your ability to complete this course successfully, please contact the Services for Students with Disabilities Office (422-2767). Reasonable academic accommodations are reviewed for all students who have qualified, documented disabilities. Services are coordinated with the student and instructor by the SSD Office. If you need assistance or if you feel you have been unlawfully discriminated against on the basis of disability, you may seek resolution through established grievance policy and procedures by contacting the Equal Employment Office at 422-5895, D-285 ASB.
Devotional and Forum Attendance Policy
Brigham Young University's devotional and forum assemblies are an important part of your BYU experience. As Elder Dallin H. Oaks stated, 'You neglect your education and fail to use a unique resource of this university if you miss a single one' (from the address 'Challenges for the Year Ahead', 6 September, 1973). Your attendance at each forum and devotional is strongly encouraged.
Open Syllabus Policy
There isn't really a university Open Syllabus Policy, but hopefully there will be one day.
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 5:15-16)
Copyright is the modern era's bushel. It hides much of the good work that goes on inside universities from the public. Open licenses are the candlesticks of the digital age. Applying an open license to your syllabus and other academic and scholarly work allows your light to shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify you Heavenly Father.
Providing free and open public access to our scholarly and educational resources will "have a strong effect on the course of higher education and will greatly enlarge Brigham Young University's influence in a world we wish to improve" (BYU Mission Statement). Hiding away our academic and scholarly work behind copyright severely limits our ability to influence a world we wish to improve.
Consequently, this syllabus is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, meaning anyone in the world is free to read, download, adapt, change, translate, and share it with others. I hope you find it useful and that it blesses your life somehow.
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