Storyboarding Your Blended Course
Now that you have considered your general course design and practical considerations for implementing blended learning across various mode(s) of delivery, we will introduce a method for building out your course and applying these considerations in more detail.
You can use a storyboard or narrative weekly schedule to illustrate the sequence of content, learning activities, and assessments that your students will follow for each week or module. In your storyboard, you will also consider through which modality (or modalities) the content and activities will be delivered and the general sequence that students will follow from week to week.
A storyboard will help you understand the whole picture of your course, rather than the specific details of each content item, activity, or assessment. Understanding the “whole picture” of your course and the learning experience that students will follow as they progress from week to week in your course will allow you to take a student-centred approach to course design, and reflect on how the various elements of your course come together to support student learning.
Storyboarding is a time-intensive and iterative process. While we encourage you to continue designing your blended course with a storyboard in mind, we recognize that this is not a feasible task to achieve in the context of this workshop.
Please download this storyboard template for you to use – or not use! – at your discretion. You may also wish to check out “Storyboarding Your Course” for a step-by-step approach.