Conduct Interview

Broaden students perspectives through the process of interviewing professionals in their intended career field.

Why Create this Learning Experience

Peer interactions can take place out of the classroom. Encourage students to interview professionals within their field. Students can immediately apply the learnings to discover more about the profession.

To foster an interactive and engaging activity be sure to clearly articulate the expectations and establish parameters within the prompt. See the additional considerations on how to appropriately use this activity.

Prompt

Conduct Interview

Assessment Type: Graded

Recommended Learning Tool: Assignment

Learning Domain: A robust online course will incorporate a variety of learning domains to support students’ achievement of the course outcomes. This activity is best suited for a High cognitive function.

If you are actively collaborating with a designer, please direct them to this resource if you are interested in utilizing this learning experience. It can be applied or adapted to your online course.

Additional Considerations

Consider the following recommendations to execute this activity effectively:

• This activity is useful for any discipline where students can contact or research professionals in their intended career field.
• Advertise this activity early in the semester. Give students ample time to prepare and complete this activity. When possible, provide students with advance notice that this activity will be taking place.
• Clearly articulate activity instructions and expectations, such as purpose, context, collaboration methods, submission format, deadlines, netiquette, model submission examples.
• Consider a rubric to provide students with directions and how their submission(s) will be evaluated.