Re-design of a course through Gagne's 9 steps

In this project, I will try to redesign one of my courses through Gagne's 9 steps. 

If you haven't heard about Gagne's 9 steps, it provides a step-by-step approach that can help managers, trainers, and facilitators structure their training so that their students or teams get the most from their learning opportunities.

I would like to use my 'Biological Basis of Human Behaviour' course. It is a great course that includes plenty of information about the biology and psychology of human behaviors, but it doesn't go beyond this. The use of PowerPoint slides and long-tiring lectures are the components of why most of my friends don't get the maximum benefit from the course. 

Gagne's model consists of 9 important steps, and throughout my blog, you will see applications of each step. 

Use of Gagne's 9 steps

The lesson will be about our vision, how its works, and the biology behind it.

1- Gaining Attention (Reception)

I started my lesson with a quote to remind students how fascinating our brains our such as 

To gain the attention of my students, I will show them some illusions with a few activities.

Here's one of them!

2- Informing Learners of the Objective (Expectancy)

While they got confused with the illusion that I showed in the first part, they will want to learn more about our vision.

I will explain today's course content with what they are gonna learn. I presented the list version of the lesson to stimulate a map in their minds.

I will give them brief information about the content with the use of thinglink.

 

Stage 3 - Stimulating Recall of Prior Learning (Retrieval)

I asked them some questions about what were the functions of our other senses in relation to the visual sense to recall their prior knowledge. Use of discussion board, or h5p quizzes would be beneficial in this stage.

Stage 4 - Presenting the Stimulus (Selective Perception)

To present the content of the lecture, I used sutori that I found very attention-taking with its design.

 Stage 5 - Providing Learning Guidance (Semantic Encoding)  

I used this stage in relation to the fourth stage. I added in sutori presentation some case studies, and 'check your knowledge activities'.  

Stage 6 - Eliciting Performance (Responding)

In this stage, I divided the class into groups. I wanted them to create a scenario to show me how our vision sense works in real-life situations.

Stage 7 - Providing Feedback (Reinforcement)

I actively monitor students, and tried to give them immediate feedback during the activities that I shared.

Stage 8 - Assessing Performance (Retrieval)

I prepared some questions that cover learning objectives presented at the beginning of the lesson.

Stage 9 - Enhancing Retention and Transfer (Generalization)

I will kindly ask the students to create a mind map in their minds about what we have learned after summarizing the lecture briefly.

I will give them optional websites, online courses, readings to enhance their knowledge.

Online Courses:

 

Coursera.org - futurelearn 

Reading:

Vision

Thank you for your time :3