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= = ** Group e-lesson ** ** Due date for completion: ** Various ** Submission instructions: ** Online ** Detail: **

// Group e-Lesson (30%) //

You are to work in groups of four to develop an e-lesson that is designed to “teach” your peers a new topic in the area designing an e-learning environment. As for the format of your e-lesson, you are strongly encouraged to be creative and avoid direct transmission. Your e-lesson should have all of the following elements:

• Introduction – the general information about your lesson, such as an overview of the content to be covered, duration, and how to use/navigate around the lesson environment. • Objectives – What learners are expected to achieve at the end of the lesson. • Procedures – The steps that the learners will need to take to achieve the stated objectives, e.g. any task that the learners need to accomplish by the end of the lesson. • Resources – Where the learners will obtain the information in order to learn the content of the lesson. Please make sure that you include at least one recommended reading for your topic as shown in weekly activities. In addition, you are welcome to include readings of your choice. Please note that only academic/scholarly writings are to be used (i.e. no newspaper articles, popular magazine articles, writings with commercial interests, etc.). • Interactions – Where learners must interact with lesson materials and with one another. • Discussion – Your group must pose questions and moderate the weekly discussion • Summary – a closure of your presentation and consequent tasks for the week.

You are welcome to add any other components that you think will help you to achieve the objectives of your lesson.

You will notify the group prior to presenting whether or not it will be a synchronous or asynchronous presentation. You will also lead and moderate the discussion for the week.

__ Due date: __ wk 7 – 13 th April, wk 8 – 20 th April, wk 9 – 4 th May, wk 10 – 11 th May, wk 11 – 18 th May, wk 12 – 25 th May

** Assessment criteria: **

// Objectives // – Specific learning objectives and the steps required to achieve them are clearly communicated to learners.

// Resources // - Learning resources incorporated reflect updated development in the area. The compiled resources show the group’s understanding of the topic through serious research and collaboration. Learning activities – Learning activities take advantages of the affordances of the Internet technology, and are not direct instructions. The group communicates their understanding of the topic to peers through guided discussions or problem solving, and learners are encouraged to exchange ideas and collaboratively build ideas.

// Presentation // - Advance organizer presents a detailed overview of the topics to be covered in the lesson. Links are provided to both internal and external pages. There are well-established relationships between all the pages/topics. All the links work and can be easily navigated.

// Collaborative group work // – There is strong evidence of collaboration among the group members, which shows that all members worked collaboratively in  • Researching recourses for the lesson • Critically analysing and synthesizing the resources gathered from diverse array of updated scholarly/research literature • Designing engaging learning activities • Efficiently executing the lesson (division of labour, shared responsibilities, etc.)