A Practical Approach for Designing Effective and Innovative Courses

Duke CIT - Events: "This workshop is intended for faculty currently considering or working on course redesign or new course design. The session will focus on a course design strategy that is applicable at all levels of the curriculum and across varied disciplines, and that focuses on setting goals for students that go beyond mastery of content items. The session will guide participants through the goals-setting phase of the process and will also help participants see how to begin the process of choosing content, selecting teaching strategies, and designing student activities, assignments, and assessments to insure that students meet those goals. The method introduced in this session is by no means the only way to design a course, but it does offer a systematic, intellectual approach that the presenter has used very successfully in many years of week-long workshops called 'Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences,' which are now part of the program 'On the Cutting Edge: Workshops for Geoscience Faculty' (http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/). The Cutting Edge web site now has an on-line tutorial for course design that can be used to guide faculty members through the course design process outlined in the session. The tutorial is available at http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/coursedesign/tutorial/index.html."