Story-Based Course Design: Making Your Class an Adventure
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Start Date
8-16-2023 12:00 AM
Description
Turn your course into an adventure! In this session, you will learn to leverage the stunning power of story in your classroom. Story-based course design frames your course material as a narrative in which the student participates as a character. In a story-driven course, students take on the role of explorers rather than observers.
In this presentation, I will show examples of three types of story-based courses: a choose-your-own-adventure course, a journey-of-discovery course, and a social hero course. Each of these courses is taught as a story in which the students can see themselves as epic heroes or travelers on a quest. In a story-based course, your students will step inside the material to take charge of the course instead of just taking it.
In a story-based course, the power dynamic of the classroom changes. The instructor becomes a guide and mentor as students strike out on their own quest for knowledge. Successful college students take an active role in their education and story-based courses give them a unique opportunity to engage, driven not by the threat of failure but by the magical lure of discovery and adventure.
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Story-Based Course Design: Making Your Class an Adventure
Turn your course into an adventure! In this session, you will learn to leverage the stunning power of story in your classroom. Story-based course design frames your course material as a narrative in which the student participates as a character. In a story-driven course, students take on the role of explorers rather than observers.
In this presentation, I will show examples of three types of story-based courses: a choose-your-own-adventure course, a journey-of-discovery course, and a social hero course. Each of these courses is taught as a story in which the students can see themselves as epic heroes or travelers on a quest. In a story-based course, your students will step inside the material to take charge of the course instead of just taking it.
In a story-based course, the power dynamic of the classroom changes. The instructor becomes a guide and mentor as students strike out on their own quest for knowledge. Successful college students take an active role in their education and story-based courses give them a unique opportunity to engage, driven not by the threat of failure but by the magical lure of discovery and adventure.