Generally, I think your group has done excellent work and I will give my views based on your resource structure.
Before your overview, you provided a table illustrating which part each of you is responsible for, which is clear-organized and helpful to know about your teamwork.
Overview
Your overview is engaging and passionate. You have introduced the course content, the resources, and the academic articles you will use, and you have also emphasized the importance of learning such a lesson by listing the misconceptions. After reading this part, I am motivated to learn more about the course because I expect to learn something useful which can help me with my future tests.
Descriptions and Rationales
The second part is descriptions and rationales. First of all, your learning theory is really too long and maybe some paragraph breaks would add more clarity to this part. Besides, I feel like this part is more about the explanation and analysis of the learning theory Cognitive Learning Theory itself, and thus it’s recommended to add more about how this theory will be applied in your course in specific ways.
Regarding the learning design, you have decided to use two interactive learning resources, which I find reasonable because the two methods are intended to serve different levels of teaching. As for the learning context, you have clarified the target as college students and explained why your course is not suitable for elementary school students, which is logical and understandable. However, one thing that was left out was the special groups. For example, you are supposed to include students with hearing loss, sight difficulty, or from a single-parent family. I have noticed that you put the special groups in the later part “inclusion”, yet I find it more appropriate to mention it in the learning context. In terms of technology choices, you have provided a detailed explanation of why this course needs such technology tools, which is clear.
Modules
The third part is the specific arrangement of modules, which I think needs most of your attention and modification. The first problem is that the learning outcomes are not always consistent with the module subject. For example, in the first module what defines an effective study method for themselves, students are supposed to understand and identify what an effective study method may be by learning some features. However, your learning outcomes are far more demanding, which requires students not only to teach others strategies but also can achieve personal test goals. I don’t think students can achieve such learning outcomes simply by understanding what is an effective study method. Therefore, I suggest scanning over your learning outcomes and revising those too broad or too challenging.
Besides, although you have listed the resources in the first module, I don’t know how the resources help with the activity since the activity doesn’t include reading the article. How could students not read the article and be asked to attend a test? What kind of questions are they expected to answer?
Another question is that in the description of the first module you have mentioned “trial and error”, which means that the students should find out the most effective learning approach through repeated experiments. However, this course only lasts 1-2 hours, and thus this intention is not in tune with what the course intends. This is my suggestion about the first module, and I think this deserves your attention.
Strategies
In the part of strategies, I appreciate your part of the design for inclusion and your group has taken those with difficulties into account. However, I don’t agree with your assessment plan because, in my view, it is not at all challenging for the students because they should fill out the review by themselves. However, I have noticed that some of your modules actually need students to memorize and apply knowledge, for example, the features of effective learning approaches and good habits. Therefore, I believe you can set up some multiple choices or short-answer questions for students to make an objective assessment of the learning of students. On top of that, you can also include the self-assessment table as a supplement.
These are all my suggestions, and I think the topic of your group is really interesting and inviting, and I hope my suggestions would work for you.
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