Objectives & Overview - Organization and Time Management
Barrier in Brief
There is a sharp increase in required autonomy for students moving from live to online courses (and particularly asynchronous online courses) with which many students struggle.
Lesson Pages
- Overview & Objectives
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Lesson Overview
In this lesson, instructors will be exposed to simple, quick strategies for supporting students who would benefit from support for self-management and organization skills. The point isn't to relieve students of the need to self-manage, but to provide them the supports necessary to develop their ability to self-manage, particularly in an online course format. This topic especially addresses...
Regarding this checkpoint, the UDLGuidelines.org Links to an external site. says,
"Providing a model of self-regulatory skills is not sufficient for most learners. They will need sustained apprenticeships that include scaffolding. Reminders, models, checklists, and so forth can assist learners in choosing and trying an adaptive strategy for managing and directing their emotional responses to external events (e.g., strategies for coping with anxiety-producing social settings or for reducing task-irrelevant distracters) or internal events (e.g., strategies for decreasing rumination on depressive or anxiety-producing ideation). Such scaffolds should provide sufficient alternatives to meet the challenge of individual differences in the kinds of strategies that might be successful and the independence with which they can be applied."
Lesson Objective(s)
By the end of this lesson, instructors should be able to...
- Articulate the role of organization and self-management in higher education success, particularly in online settings.
- Utilize Canvas features to facilitate support for students who need help with organization and self-management skill acquisition.
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