5.1 Overview

The purpose of this module is to help you align open course packs with your revised textbook and to recognize H5P as an equity-minded strategy for student engagement in your revised textbook. This module is divided into three parts:

1. Why Align Open Course Packs?
2. Transparent and Aligned Learning Design
3. Meaningful Student Interaction with H5P

Drawing on these strategies, you can help ensure that open courses packs integrate with the revised textbook and invite students to bring their whole selves into the learning experience.

MaryAnne Nestor and Carl E. Nestor offer an excellent video introduction to Alignment and Backward Design (Video Length: 2 minutes 53 seconds). As the Nestors explain, alignment is a condition in which all the counterparts within a group or relationship work together. As revising authors, you play a critical role in ensuring that textbooks and course packs work together. By improving alignment between learning outcomes, chapter learning objectives, chapter activities, and chapter content, each part of the textbook can better support the whole. Focusing on alignment between the revised textbook and the course pack ensures that students and future educators can find what they need and make the most of engaging these projects.

Figure 5.1 Alignment and Backward Design are concepts that guide instructional designers in faculty consultations. How do you see these concepts benefitting your work as a revising author? How will they help you to meet student needs? See also: Video Transcript for Alignment and Backward Design [Google Doc].