Course Design Workshop

Facilitated by: Dan Apple

This online event is synchronous (via Zoom) each Monday: April 1, 8, 15, and 22. All other days are asynchronous (participants complete interactive learning activities in our web-based learning management system).

The Course Design Workshop offers practical strategies, techniques, and tips for creating activities and materials, and designing courses and programs which support process-oriented approaches to learning and teaching and improve student learning and success. By integrating learning theory into the course design process, curricula can be created which support Process Education (active learning and guided inquiry) approaches. Such learning environments challenge students to develop essential learning skills and master content.

Outcomes:

• Learn to structure and write quality process-oriented materials for use in your own courses.
• Practice integrating a learning methodology and learning theory into the design of your content-specific curriculum.
• Set criteria for assessing the quality of curricula and aligning it with QEP.
• Link assessment strategies to specific activity types for increasing student success.
• Identify and assess key learning skills students must develop to meet general education guidelines.
• Learn to write high-quality critical thinking questions.
• Explore how learning journals and portfolios can be integrated in the design of curriculum.
• Have the opportunity to receive real-time feedback while working through the design process.
• Discover key design features which increase student success.