Well designed courses
- create clear learning objectives that are both challenging and attainable, and intersect with the overall course goals
- design student-centered learning and assessment experiences that support the learning objectives, and
- provide readily available, coherently organized, and high quality course materials (including syllabi) that establish student workload, learning objectives, performance criteria, grading procedures, and class policy expectations.
Guides and Resources
Course Design Best Practices
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Backward Design
How to ensure alignment of learning objectives, assessments, and learning activities. How to use genAI to write and review learning objectives.
Effective Assessment Strategies
The role of formative assessments in the learning process, and advice for when to allow and limit AI use in assessments
Writing learning objectives (coming soon)
Designing an assessment plan (coming soon)