Course Design Institute

Course Design/ Redesign Institute with Dr. Phyllis Blumberg, author of Making Learning-Centered Teaching Work

Institute uses a combination of self-paced voice-over presentations explaining the content, discussions, activities, assignments and consultations with the presenter to thoroughly design or redesign  a course.

You new course will feature:

alignment of student learning outcomes, teaching and learning activities and student assessments

extensively use of active learning

assessments that are integrated with learning

scaffolding  support for difficult content and high stakes exams

use of content to facilitate learning

During this institute, participants will use a practical how to guide to design a course to improve student learning in face to face, hybrid or online courses. Participants will discuss the application of learning-centered teaching to their disciplines and their classes. They will learn how to spend their time facilitating learning and teaching students how to take responsibility for their learning. More than half of the time will be devoted to actually working on the design or redesign of their course, getting feedback and improving the course. The newly designed course will feature better designed learning outcomes and will engage students.

Faculty will bring a laptop computer, course materials for 1 course they would like to revise or course description, materials for new course. Faculty will share their current and planned materials in the spirit of constructive feedback and improvement.

Registration: Contact Phyllis Blumberg (BlumbergPhyllis@gmail.com). $600/person, ask about discounts for several faculty from one institution attending .

https://courseredesigninstitute.blogspot.com/ for information

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This course design institute can be offered at your institution. 

Feedback from the June 2020 Course Redesign Institute (CRI) at Villanova University:

• "The focused content, its flexible on-line delivery, the assignments, the Zoom conversations, and both the real-

         time & written feedback/ encouragement 

          from Phyllis made this worth every second."

• "Overall, I found the presentations very valuable."
• "The feedback from the instructor was helpful. It helped me understand the concepts better and made me feel

         more confident that my course design is on the right track."

• "The CRI forced me to become much more intentional about my teaching and course design."
• "I had a couple of main takeaways - good just to get focus on student learning versus teaching."
• "I thought Phyllis brought great enthusiasm and energy, and did a great job of relating the material to our different disciplines."