Learning Activities in Sakai Tool: Lesson Builder
Significant attention has been focused on defining the Learning Outcomes for out students. We then make sure that the assessments we are using will accurately measure those outcomes. Learning Activities are the links that bridge those two areas and are usually left up to the professor. More and more professors are moving from being the deliverer of content in a course to being the architect of learning experiences. This is even more important as we explore the hybrid or blended classroom. Designing online learning experiences goes beyond putting resources in the hands of students and hoping for the best. It involves taking what we know about how people learn and applying it to capture attention and sequence an experience that enhances learning.
Fortunately we do have tools in Sakai that can help this process but not everyone is aware of the potential. Our newest tool in Sakai is called Lessons Builder. Just like the WebContent tool you can add as many tabs as you like, on the left in Sakai and rename them to fit your content.
The real magic is in the sequencing of content within the Module. You can add all of the following to a page or multiple pages.
- Text
- Multimedia
- Resources
- Questions
- Assignments
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- Quiz
- Forums
- Websites
- Comments
- and even Student Pages
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- You can make continuing contingent upon completion of an activity.
- By requiring action from the students you are helping them to be engaged with the content in an interactive environment.
- By inserting prompts for questions or comments you can see which students are progressing or having difficulty.
- The directions are built right into the Tool.
How about you? Have you tried the Lesson Builder Tool in your Sakai course? What do you think?
By the way, you can start using the Lesson Builder tool in Sakai by going to the Site Editor in your course and selecting Edit Tools and then check Lessons Builder. Then Continue to name the tab and start using the tool.
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