Resource reviewed: EDCI 335 Assignment 4 Draft – Tony, Joanne, Chad

Clarity of Lesson

The focus on dental care is strong, but since it comes up so often, you could probably highlight it in the introduction so learners know how it is going to be a key part of the course. I would suggest clarifying early on that the course covers both general care and dental health in depth. This would help learners understand how the subtopics are connected from the start.

Clarifying Questions

For the H5P quizzes, when you say “instant feedback”, will the learners just be told whether they’re correct/incorrect or will they be given explanations for incorrect answers? Doing so would be good to further support learning and understanding of key concepts. 

For the formative assessment how will the quizzes be different from the multiple choice quiz. Do the learners have to do a blog post and a quiz for each module or is it just one of them?

Alignment

We found your activities to be well structured and designed in relation to the learning objectives outlined in your chart. Each activity is relevant and clearly builds learners’ knowledge of pet care. Additionally, structuring your learning activities to suit the needs of various learning types (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic) makes your learning resource accessible for all. The interactive aspect of your activities helps promote learner engagement in the resource as well.

I like how each learning outcome is tied to an activity and a resource. I would suggest making sure that each formative and summative assessment clearly maps to a specific learning outcome, so learners can see how they will be evaluated. Also, ensure by double-checking that LO2’s dental health focus is reinforced in both the formative and summative assessment.

Interactivity

The use of H5P quizzes, drag and drop tasks and the care plan template provide a good base for engagement. You might consider adding at-least one scenario based activity where learners make decisions and see the impact because this will encourage application rather than just recall. Additionally, quick, low effort interactive check-points (1-2 question quizzes) could also help with maintaining momentum.

Inclusivity

UDL could be improved by including the ability to print out materials for learners who face technological barriers or prefer to use a paper version for their learning.

Technology Use and Rationale

Could you incorporate a template or theme that is screen reader friendly to accommodate more learners who may require this tool?

Presentation

For the assessment of the learners we think an area of improvement would be adding more detail in the grading criteria aspect. More specifically, adding sample grading criteria, a rubric, or proficiency indicators would further develop your draft.

Citations

Good work, your overview is detailed and goes over a variety of factors contributing to the healthy life of a pet. Your reference to an academic source (Chowdhury, 2023; Martins et al., 2023) further strengthens the need for preventative pet care. However, one of your sources Martins 2023 focuses on health benefits for pet owners. I believe that adding a different source could strengthen your overview. You might consider reviewing the citation format for uniformity. Also, please make sure every visual and video you include is backed by a citation.