Project Specification
My Word Roots ID project is the culmination of my work over the five-week summer session in course design, from analysis to implementation. It contains needs, learner, and task analyses; course goals and learning outcomes; instructional strategies and technology used, and my plans for consistent visual messaging to employ throughout the course; a sample instructional unit, evaluation of it, and my recommendations for improvement. The course is a 1000-level general education college course on Greek and Latin word roots. The course will help students build fluency for the English vocabulary used in academic, scientific, medical, and other professional fields.
The project describes a course that will be housed in the Canvas learning management system. The course will be available to students at ECU and other UNC schools through the UNC Language Exchange in Fall 2023 and subsequent Fall semesters.
Project Development Process
The project was developed in phases through the five-week summer session. The first phase were the needs and learner analyses. Design and development followed. In this phase, I established course goals, learning outcomes, assessment methods, and instructional strategies. In the final working phase of the process, I identified the technologies learners will use in the course, with more analysis and considerations to the various learning contexts. I also determined my visual messaging plan to create a consistent appearance of materials throughout the course.
To create the final project, I drew together plans I created during the course, and filled those out with more targeted information including a complete course plan and a one-unit sample of the instruction. Pulling together information I’d written at previous phases helped me see the project as a uniform whole. As I worked on the final project, I made revisions to my initial ideas.
Project’s Connection to Professional Goals & Objectives
This project helped me with an immediate professional goal: to create a new class to teach in the Fall semester. More importantly, it provided me with an efficient course design process which I will continue to use in future course creation.