Subject Guides: Designing Learning: Course Design

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5 Steps for Curriculum Mapping Curriculum mapping is an important task used to show proper alignment of program goals, course objectives, instructional support materials, formative assessment activities, summative outcomes assessments, and finally the instructional plan. Simply put, it is the creation of a map showing the path of both teaching and learning from start to finish.
Course Design - Carleton University Instructors’ Guide to Course Design: Learning Outcomes & Constructive Alignment
Integrated Course Design A Model of Integrated Course Design by L. Dee Fink • University of Oklahoma
Frameworks & Taxonomies of Learning As a part of this changing landscape, experts in curriculum design and other fields have designed a number of teaching and learning frameworks or models. These frameworks are informed by research and can serve as guidelines or conceptual maps for instructors and departments engaging in designing or redesigning courses. Two teaching and learning frameworks that complement each other well are Backward Design and Universal Design for Learning.
Teaching Goals Inventory Activity: Rate the importance of each goal to what you aim to have students accomplish in your course.
Top 10 UDL Tips for Designing an Engaging Learning Environment How can educators design learning environments that support the growth and development of purposeful, motivated learners?

What Is Learning Experience Design? (Tips And Examples) by Thinkific, 7 Jun 2021

Designing Your Course to Achieve Alignment by Course Design on a Shoestring Budget, 11 Dec 2014

Introducing the Course Design Matrix by Course Design on a Shoestring Budget, 11 Dec 2014

Course Planning by GMCTE UofS, 22 May 2013

What is Understanding by Design? Author Jay McTighe explains. by Hawker Brownlow Education, 17 Jul 2013

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