Category: Design
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Creating vs. Curating
Finding the Right Balance for Online Course Design Designing an online course is both an art and a science, requiring instructors to make thoughtful decisions about how to deliver content effectively. At the heart of this process lies a pivotal question: should you create all your course materials, or should…
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Five Ways Course Learning Objectives Differ from Module Learning Outcomes
When designing a course, understanding the distinction between course learning objectives and module learning outcomes is essential for creating a cohesive and effective learning experience. While both serve to guide students toward achieving meaningful progress, they differ in scope, focus, and application. Course learning objectives represent the broad, overarching goals…
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Learning Modules
Creating a meaningful learning experience requires breaking down a course into manageable, purposeful pieces that guide students toward achieving the overarching course goals. This is where modules come into play, serving as logical chunks of the course that are organized around student learning outcomes and aligned with the broader objectives.…
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From Course Goal to Course Learning Objectives
Moving from the course goal to course learning objectives is a critical step in designing a cohesive and effective course. While the course goal provides a broad, overarching vision of what students should achieve by the end of the course, learning objectives break this vision into specific, measurable outcomes. This…
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The Course Goal
A course goal is a broad, overarching statement that defines the primary purpose and desired outcomes of a course. It captures the big picture of what students should achieve by the end of the course, serving as a foundational guide for designing content, activities, and assessments. Unlike specific learning objectives,…
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Online Course Revisions
Definitions for Course Revisions Minor Revision A minor revision for an online course involves small-scale updates or adjustments that do not fundamentally change the structure, objectives, or core content of the course. Examples include: Minor revisions are typically quick to implement and do not require re-approval from stakeholders like academic…
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Taxonomies of Learning
Taxonomies of Learning: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor Domains In course design, understanding the different ways students learn and engage with material is crucial. Learning doesn’t happen in just one way; it encompasses multiple domains that tap into the mind, heart, and body. These domains are organized in learning taxonomies—frameworks that…
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Enduring Understandings
Enduring Understandings: Building Courses with Lasting Impact In the world of education, designing a course that resonates with students long after they complete it is a top goal. But how do we move beyond immediate learning outcomes to something more lasting? Enter enduring understandings, a core concept in curriculum design…
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Essential Questions
Essential Questions in Course Design: Creating Deeper Learning Through Inquiry When designing a course, it’s easy to get caught up in content, assignments, and assessments. But to truly engage students, we need to go beyond what we want them to learn and focus on why it matters. This is where…
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Lecture-Based Course Design
In this video, the process of utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to augment the instructional capacity of lecture videos is methodically explored. The initial phase involves uploading a lecture video into a video-to-text AI tool, which efficiently produces a transcript. This transcript forms the basis for further applications of AI,…
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