Day 1: Create a Game Plan
Section outline
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This module introduces the "backwards design" approach to course design, which takes your course learning outcomes as a starting point. Backwards design promotes student-centered learning by helping you communicate to students what they need to learn, design learning experiences focused on helping them learning these things, and ensuring your assessments of their work are aligned with those course objectives.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module, you will be able to develop a course framework that outlines your key learning objectives and how you will assess students mastery of them.
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Source: Wiggins, G. & McTighe, J. (2005). "Backward Design." In Understanding by design. Retrieved from Bryn Mawr College, Tripod
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(Watch time: 1 min, 26 sec)
Source: Samantha Calamari, Elearning Essentials: Instructional Design. LinkedIn Learning video course, 2018.
In this video, instructional designer Samantha Calamari explains the backwards design instructional technique.
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(Watch time: 4 min, 50 sec)
Source: Common Sense Education (2016) -
Download this document and type your course goals, objectives, and assessments into the tables.
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