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EdX E-Learning Course Development

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EdX E-Learning Course Development

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
edX E-Learning Course Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Exercises and assessments


As was just noted, you will need to create several exercises and assessments for your course. Typically, these are short-answer or multiple-choice quizzes that are sandwiched within the other parts of a learning sequence. However, there are actually four types of exercises you can create for your course:

  • In-lesson exercises: Designed as short knowledge checks within a learning sequence, in-lesson exercises should focus on one or two small ideas. They should be challenging enough to ensure that a student understands the material, but not so intense that they break the rhythm of the course. In-lesson exercises can be used for instruction, feedback, and assessment.

  • Homework questions: These should ask more in-depth questions that link several course concepts and require more critical thinking than an in-lesson exercise. Consider developing homework questions as a weekly wrap-up.

  • Quiz problems: Whereas in-lesson exercises assess knowledge within a learning sequence...