LLU Faculty Development

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► AHCJ 579 Instructional Effectiveness / Online course taught winter quarter / 3 units

Instructor: Laura Alipoon

Note: Can be used for professional development and paid for with employee tuition benefits.

Course Description:
Development of strategies for instructional effectiveness, evaluation, and assessment processes.

Course objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Examine their philosophy of teaching and learning.
2. Describe and apply best practices for divergent distributive learning methods. For example face-to-face, online, or digitally enhanced.
3. Illustrate how to utilize and support a minimum of five different teaching approaches or instructional strategies in a curriculum. (Eight approaches/strategies will be provided for you to choose from.)
4. Prepare a comprehensive course syllabus including relevant and measurable learning objectives you have produced for each course topic from the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains.
5. Create a lesson plan for one module/presentation.
6. Formulate strategies for evaluating learners including utilizing testing, rubrics, and calculating and assigning grades.
7. Evaluate instructional effectiveness.

Terminal Objective - upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Critically evaluate a curriculum for effectiveness.
   

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► Academic Integrity (LLU Library Guide)
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► Faculty Development in Education Committee (link)
A subcommittee of the University Faculty Council, this committee supports faculty development at LLU. It is composed of representatives from each school, all of whom have a special expertise and interest in teaching and learning.

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