How your learners prove, their learning is how you will gauge their understanding of the content you want them to master. That is why this step is so early in the lesson design process. When properly designed, this step will allow your learners to showcase their learning and help guide them to a deeper understanding. Knowledge acquisition is to be a journey and not a destination. Designing ways for your learners to prove what they have gained in their learning experience allows them to be active participants. It will enable the educator to help them along this path.
A digital environment allows for doors to open that were not there in a physical space. The change in learning spaces can make for a more robust way for your learners to prove their learning to you. Having your learners think about things differently and showcase those different perspectives is a great way to take advantage of technology in a digital lesson. Expressing these different perspectives in a video, picture, or another method can allow your learners to express themselves and, at the same time, will enable you to check to see if they got the content you set out as necessary in the previous step. Having adult learners use the topics in their daily lives or a work environment will help them create better habits. It will nudge them to use the content you are teaching without being too intrusive in their everyday routines. When designed this way, your learners prove their knowledge in different ways and helps to create the cognitive dissonance that creates deeper learning and more knowledge retention.
Remember, this is your assessment piece as well. It is how to gauge the understanding of your learners. It needs to be something with a rubric for you and your learners to know what to expect and how you will assess them. All of the assessment information, including rubrics and instructions, need to be given to your learners at the start of the learning process to understand the entire learning process from the beginning.
The second step in designing digital learning is about how your learners prove their knowledge. It needs to have a design feature that takes advantage of your digital environment instead of looking at ways to use in-person assessments in a digital environment.