Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Course Design Resources

By Erica De Bruin and Mercedes Bravo

Preparing to teach your own course for the first time? Here's a round-up of some of our favorite course design resources on the web: 

The teaching centers at Carnegie MellonStanford, and Vanderbilt have put together particularly comprehensive online guides, which take you from identifying situational constraints and developing course goals to writing the syllabus. If you are thinking of revising an existing course, reading about the experiences of other faculty (PDF) members might be a great place to start. 

"Integrated Course Design" (PDF), a paper by L. Dee Fink of the University of Oklahoma, discusses how to integrate course design so that your learning goals, instructional strategies, and assessments are well-aligned. For an illustration of how you might vary your instructional strategies, see: "Scientific Teaching in Practice." (For those of you that attended the Yale Teaching Center's recent workshop on course design, these papers were the source of the graphics we showed illustrating how to vary your instructional strategies.)

The University of Minnesota has a helpful tutorial that walks you through the process of designing a syllabus. Other great syllabus design guides have been put together by the teaching centers at Brown (PDF), Cornell, and Michigan. For sample syllabi, one website to check out is OpenCourseWareSearch, which compiles course materials from several universities with open courses including MIT, Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and Yale.

If you've found any additional resources, please leave them in the comments!

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