redesigning courses
Recent Seminars
Beyond Coverage: Backward Design for Disciplinary Thinking
How do we find time to teach students how to think when there is so much content they need to learn? The secret lies in backward design. Backward design is a powerful way to help you clarify your learning goals, bring your assignments and exams into alignment with these goals, and better use classroom activities to cultivate the student learning that you value most.
Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
The Front Row: A Small Group Feel in a Large Class
Frustrated with the traditional lecture format in an upper-level chemistry class that enrolled more than 100 students, and envious of my teaching assistants who spent time in small recitations working on problem solving with my students, I designed an approach I call the “The Front Row.” It brings a small group feel into a large classroom.
Designing Online Courses with Course Updates in Mind
Online courses are rarely “done.” Over time, things change, including the curriculum and content (because of changes in the field and changes to available content) and the technologies (ways that the content can be delivered and tools for interacting with it and with others in the courses, including you).
Six Principles of a Successful Course Redesign
Required introductory courses, especially those in math and science, offer special teaching challenges. Frequently, these are courses that must be completed before students can proceed to their chosen majors.
