Title: Introducing the Activity Profile
Course: Stage 3: Online and Blended Teaching > Section: 3. Exploring Blended Learning and developing Activity Profiles

The Activity Profile provides an opportunity to step back from your learning design and critique it.  Here we ask you to analyse the activities in your Course Characteristics and Storyboard in terms of the different types of learning activities listed below. This will allow you to assess the balance of your course in terms of time spent on different types of activities. (Adapted from 7Cs of Learning Design)

Not all course Activity Profiles will or should look the same. In some courses, there may be a very strong emphasis on productive activities, in others on communicative or experiential activities. It is important that your Activity Profile aligns with the Learning Outcomes for your course.

Key learning activity types (Univ of Leicester, 2012):

- Assimilative activities (e.g. Read, Watch, Listen, Think about, Access, Observe, Review, Study)
- Information handling activities (e.g. List, Analyse, Collate, Plot, Find, Discover, Access, Use, Gather, Order, Classify, Select, Assess, Manipulate)
- Communication activities (e.g. Communicate, Debate, Discuss, Argue, Share, Report, Collaborate, Present, Describe, Question)
- Productive (e.g. List, Create, Build, Make, Design, Construct, Contribute, Complete, Produce, Write, Draw, Refine, Compose, Synthesize, Remix)
- Experiential (e.g. Practice, Apply, Mimic, Experience, Explore, Investigate, Perform, Engage)
- Interactive/Adaptive (e.g. Explore, Experiment, Trial, Improve, Model, Simulate)
- Assessment (Include summative graded assessment only here e.g. Write, Present, Report, Demonstrate, Critique)

Now undertake Activity 3.6: Develop your Activity Profile (asynchronous)