Courses in a condensed term intensify the learning experience for students. Condensed courses present new challenges to faculty to make sure that assessments, activities and content are distributed in a way that maintains academic rigor and meets the same outcomes of a 15- week course.
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Courses in a condensed term intensify the learning experience for students. Condensed courses present new challenges to faculty to make sure that assessments, activities and content are distributed in a way that maintains academic rigor and meets the same outcomes of a 15- week course. Faculty must take time to intentionally plan thoughtful engagements, while balancing the workload for students, and themselves, in a way that supports student success. This guide will help you create a plan for condensed courses, regardless of length. Make an appointment with a Learning Designer for a consult.
The Course Workload Estimator from RICE University can be a useful tool to help you feel confident that your course remains equivalent in its new condensed format. We have adapted the information in an Estimator Guide for those who prefer to work from print.
By clearly understanding your course outcomes and reviewing your current course content, activities, and assessments against those outcomes , you can ensure the most important information and relevant learning activities are in the center of the course. Not matter how short the semester, students must meet all stated course outcomes.
Combining long lectures from multiple classes into one super lecture leads to cognitive overload and missed opportunities for practice and reflection. Breaking up topics into chunks, creating sharing/peer-teaching opportunities, providing content prior to class, and bringing in quick activities can break up the class time and deepen student understanding.
Learn students' names. Using names is a powerful way to show the student that you value you them.
Update by Condensed Format is a fast-paced course in Advanced Cardiac Life Support and/or Pediatric Advanced Life Support designed for the individual who does not require a classroom review of AHA guidelines prior to practical and written evaluations. CME Condensed Format provides an opportunity for ACLS/PALS providers to revalidate their knowledge and skills in a convenient and individualized setting.
You can also add BLS Update on to any discipline. This will be using eLearning. You will complete the entire BLS Course online and simply perform your skills testing on site. See below to register.
AHA ACLS Textbook/Handbook (not included in course fees) available for purchase at CME.
Course Structure. Each course consists of one or more sections often called topics. The course sections (topics) are learning content holders of the course lessons and study material. Each course has one Common resource section which holds common course resources like URLs, Files, Videos. On its turn course topics may have their own resources.
The format type is selected when creating the course summary part. The course format type can be changed at any time even for courses with existing content.
The course is organized into topics. Each topic-section has a title. Each topic section consists of activities, resources, files and so on. This format is suitable if your course is objective based and each objective may take different amounts of time to complete. Students can work on each topic at their own pace. Optionally the course creator may specify a time frame for each topic, thus limiting the amount of time students can spend on certain topics.
Video courses are simple courses with one or more sections which only contain video. For each section you may have a title/topic, some description and a video file embedded into the section. The description is displayed below the video window. You may also attach course resources as you can do with other types of courses.
Important Make sure your course start date is correct. If it is not your weeks will have the wrong date on it. This is especially important if you are restoring a course to use with a new section of students. Students can only see one week at a time.
You may also attach course resources as you can do with other types of courses. Technically you may have courses with no weeks, topics or sections. In this case the only visible section will be the Common Course Resources. This is where you can publish files, links and other resources.
Optionally the course creator may specify a time frame of each week making the respective course visible only during a certain time frame. Course weeks do not have to necessarily match calendar weeks. Topic-based Course Format. The course is organized into topics. Each topic-section has a title.