Following a design process can help ensure course quality while reducing the time and effort it takes to develop a highly effective curriculum. Efficient Process: Course design is a complex process ...

Crookston, MN - The University of Minnesota Crookston is announcing that COMM 3710: Event Planning and Management is being recognized for achieving the Quality Matters Foundational Design standard ...

Courses exist within larger contexts that influence their design and facilitation. Determining which factors are most important for the context of your course can be very helpful. These factors may ...

College courses, like municipal golf courses, are highly democratic environments that cater to a large, often novice demographic. Their primary purpose is to provide recreation and respite for ...

A divorce lawyer is asked to demand full custody of a child. He thinks this is neither in the child’s best interest nor likely to be rewarded by a judge. How does he proceed with his client? A doctor ...

Like an abstract painting splattered on a canvas, the skill of golf course design is easy to dismiss. A tee box, a green, a fairway and some bunkers in between. The whole time you think, Hell, I could ...

Living in a constantly changing, interconnected and complex world forces organisations to make decisions today for highly uncertain futures with limited tools and available knowledge. 'Systemic design ...

When designing a course, where do you begin? Perhaps you typically begin by identifying topics you’d like to address or texts you want to include. In this approach, the focus is primarily on content ...

One of the most robust backward design models developed for higher education is L. Dee Fink’s integrated course design. Fink outlines a streamlined process for designing academic courses, divided into ...

During a recent faculty consultation, I was reminded of the importance of our work. I was listening to an instructor describe how excited they were to make changes to their course; things like adding ...