Now that you know several methods for spreading your exercises in time with your learning materials, let’s do a small reminder on how to propose efficient exercise which serve your learning purposes.

Aligning exercises with learning objectives

All exercises need to be thought as ways to reinforce concepts, skills or competences necessary to the learner. They should thus answer the learning objectives or a division of the learning objective, and be directly connected to the learning material.

Selecting exercises appropriate to the level of the objective

All learning objectives should answer the Blooms’ taxonomy. Taking that into account, all exercises should also follow it as otherwise the exercise wouldn’t be correctly dimensioned to the learning material.

Here are examples of exercises corresponding to each level of the Blooms’ taxonomy:

Remembering : flascards, quizzes, recall exercises
Understanding : summarisation, explaining concepts in own words
Applying : problem-solving tasks, case studies, simulations
Analysing: compare and contrast exercises, analyse case-studies
Evaluate : debates, critiques, evaluation of scenarios
Creating : projects, design tasks, creative writing

Incorporate a variety of exercises

Providing varied exercises will prevent boredom and allow to address the different learning styles.

Some examples of exercises to incorporate :

Questions, polls or quick activities to maintain engagement
Group discussions
Collaborative projects

Connect all exercises with real-world application

By connecting all exercises with real-world application, you give sense to the learning and thus maintain learners engagement and motivation.