Title: Activity 2.1: Review the course learning outcomes from your own course
Course: Stage 2: Course Design and Technology > Section: 1. Introducing Stage 2 and Understanding our Students

Purpose: to consider whether our courses support significant learning

Timing: 15+35 =50 mins

Tools:  WhatsApp; Forum

Questions:

- How can your chosen course support significant learning?
- Are there some kinds of learning that our courses don’t or can’t support well?

Task: Consider the outcomes of your course from your course description.

- Which of the categories of significant learning described by Fink are included in your outcomes?
- Which of these categories are not covered by the outcomes of your course?

Response:

(a) WhatsApp Buddy groups (3 to 4 people): Discuss what significant learning means in your course.
(b) Forum: Respond individually to the two questions with respect to your own course for redesign. Return to respond to one or two posts that you find interesting.

Post-Activity Resource: Fink, D. (2003). A Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning.