Creating Courses and Curricula

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Great courses don’t just happen; they’re the result of careful planning and design work, from learning goals to syllabus. This hub can help you think through all the steps that lead to a really successful class.

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Learning Goals

You undoubtedly have implicit ideas about what you want your students to take away from your course. You may also be expected to meet learning …

Designing Backward

What goals do you have for your students? What is it that you want them to know—and what do you want them to be able …

Eight Steps to Curricular Change

This question guide is designed to introduce common questions and steps to curricular change to apply at both the course or curriculum level.Analyze current teaching …

Universal Design for Learning

To teach effectively, your teaching must be accessible to your students, all of whom come to the classroom with varied backgrounds, expectations, and abilities. This …

Assignment Design

A good assignment helps the professor and students pursue the learning goals of the course. Rather than starting with a prefabricated assignment, then, this is …

Assessment Design

Once you have clearly articulated learning goals for your course, you will need to figure out how to measure students’ progress toward those goals.The word …

Designing and Teaching Seminar Courses

Seminars—small classes typically driven by discussion and other forms of active learning and in which students often take on teaching roles and responsibilities—offer tremendous opportunities …

Creating Your Syllabus

The syllabus presents students with a first impression of your course. It offers many opportunities to share what the learning experience in your course will …

Online Course Design

With more faculty moving course elements online and more technologies and services becoming available to support those environments, you may be considering how much of …

Opportunities

Course and Curriculum Design Consultation

A conversation with CNDLS can help faculty to clarify current teaching goals and practices in a particular course, and then to identify methods or strategies that will help the faculty reach those goals.

Mid-Semester Teaching Feedback

A Mid-Semester Teaching Feedback session is an assessment technique conducted at the midpoint of the semester. This technique allows faculty to gather feedback from students on aspects of a course that are new or changed from the previous semester, course activities such as class time, homework, projects, lab work, use of technology, and a lot more. The resulting feedback then allows faculty to implement changes in the remainder of the semester based on student comments.

Faculty Stories

Betsy Sigman

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Marcia Chatelain

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Josiah Osgood

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Christopher King, Alex Theos, & Rhonda Dzakpasu

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Alex Theos, Christopher King, & Rhonda Dzakpasu

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Alex Theos

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