Instructional Materials
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LEARN: What and Why
In any course, there are key subject matter content concepts and skills that students need to learn. After clearly defining your course learning objectives and key assessments (i.e. how they’ll demonstrate what they’ve learned), the next step is to choose the instructional materials and learning activities that will lead students to achieve the learning goals (Wiggins & McTighe, 2012).
Quality instructional materials are fundamental to student engagement in your course, as they not only make the student experience more interesting and enjoyable, but also reflect the instructor’s effort and interest—and therefore contribute to building the student-instructor relationship.
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ENGAGE: How to do it
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The material freely available and accessible for students 24/7 from anywhere. For more information on UMass Library Course Reserves, see the links below:
Lectures/Tutorials
Lecturing is another common method for delivering course content in person or online, during synchronous or asynchronous sessions. However, research shows that students lose attention after 10-15 minutes (Richardson, 2010), at most.
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Accordingly, it is recommended to use some of the following practices to make your lectures more engaging (Zimmerman & Steinke, 2015):
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- For live, synchronous lectures, Zoom is the platform commonly used.
- Schedule a Zoom meeting and practice Meeting With Your Class in Zoom
- For asynchronous lectures, you can use Echo360 or VoiceThread – which is a more interactive tool that allows for students to comment on and respond to the lecture with text, video, etc.
Open Education Resources
Open Educational Resources are educational materials and tools offered freely for anyone to use and—under some licenses—to re-mix, improve and redistribute. They include:
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OER are created by individual educators and institutions that seek to provide an alternative to the rising costs of education—and the create a more participatory, collaborative and global approach to teaching and learning.
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APPLY to your course
Review your course, asking yourself:
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- Schedule a Zoom meeting and practice Meeting With Your Class in Zoom
- Request an Echo360 course, download Echo360 Universal Capture, and record a practice session
- Record a practice VoiceThread
- Add Library Reserves to your Moodle Canvas course
Explore the OER available on the UMass Library OER Webpage
References & Resources
The Council of Chief State School Officers. 2016, December 4. “What is OER?” William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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