Title: How aligned are our courses?
Course: Stage 1 - Getting Started with EdTech > Section: 1. Introducing Educational Technology and Moodle

The word ‘alignment’ is about the coherence between learning objectives, learning activities and assessment. In a well-designed course they will support each other. The word ‘constructive’ is about the construction of meaning and knowledge by the student who is engaged in learning activity and whose achievement of the learning objectives is assessed.

An imbalance between learning objectives, learning activities and assessment will result in various problems. One example would be if the learning activities were interesting and enjoyable but were unrelated to the learning outcomes or the assessment. Another would be if only some of the learning outcomes were ever assessed.

Now, watch one or both of the videos below to enable you to reflect on the alignment of your own course elements.

GMCTL UofS (2019) An Introduction to Constructive Alignment (3m 11s) | ESI RUG (2018) Course Design: constructive alignment (2m58s)

 then undertake Activity 1.2: Discuss alignment in your own courses