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- A topical approach offers a number of advantages: it’s easy; all one has to do is glance at how other faculty have organized similar classes and copy or modify their syllabi. This approach also ensures content coverage, and, if done well, a logical and progressive topical sequence.
www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/7-innovative-approaches-course-design
This resource summarizes three innovative course designs that can be used in your blended, face-to-face or online courses to enhance the student learning experience while supporting students to achieve course learner outcomes.
3 approaches that dominate course design today: Standard approach: Arrange a list of topics. Backward design: Specify outcomes then design a sequence of activities to help students attain those outcomes.
What is course design? Course design ranges from small modifications to complete design or re-design. We use backwards design to focus on the things that students should be able to know or do by the end of a course (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005). By keeping the end in mind, we can work backwards and design courses to support student learning.
This Self-Directed Guide is intended to introduce a useful and systematic process for designing courses. It is based on the same components found in most models of instructional design, but it assembles these components into a relational, integrated model rather than a linear one.
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Introduction. “Course design” refers to the process of developing course learning aims, then selecting assessments, learning experiences, and materials that will align with aims to develop a course that animate your overarching goals for student learning and enduring understanding. In the article “Understanding by Design,” Grant Wiggins ...
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Dee Fink's "Significant Learning" model (2003), also offers a systemic approach to course design, aligning learning goals with assessment of student learning. Fink's 5 principles of good course design are: Challenge higher level of learning. Use active forms of learning.
