Section outline

  • 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.

    • READ: "Backward Design" File
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      Source: Wiggins, G. & McTighe, J. (2005). "Backward Design." In Understanding by design. Retrieved from Bryn Mawr College, Tripod on 05/07/2020

    • WATCH: "Backward Design" URL
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      (Watch time: 1 min, 4 sec)

      In this video, Oliver Schinkten explores how to develop a curriculum that not only identifies learning objectives for individual lessons, but also informs pedagogy and assessment strategies. It is part of a LinkedIn Learning course called "Teaching Techniques: Developing Curriculum."

      All Bryn Mawr students, faculty and staff have access to the full LinkedIn Learning through Bryn Mawr's institutional license. See our LinkedIn Learning: Overview for more information and instructions. 

    • WATCH: Bloom's Digital Taxonomy URL
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      (Watch time: 4 min, 50 sec)
      Source: Common Sense Education (2016)