The College of Science (CoS) Brightspace course template offers several modifiable, pre-loaded common components to get your next course started, or to enhance an existing one. This template is a ...

A team of educational developers created a model course site design and structure, specifically for new online courses or courses being built in Brightspace for the first time. Framed around the ...

The Course Design Template will be used throughout each of these steps.

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 ...

Learning requires building new skills and understanding on prior knowledge and abilities. The order and way students experience new information will have a large impact on how successful they are at ...

Creating a course map is like planning a road trip—you start with your destination (learning outcomes) and chart the best route to get there (instruction, activities, and assessments). A ...

One of the most important, but least remarked upon, higher ed trends over the past 10 years has been the transition from an individual (instructor) course design methodology to one that involves a ...

Registration is now open for CTAL’s flagship program: Course Design Institute (CDI). Since 2016, over 300 faculty have joined us for 3 1/2 days of intensive and collaborative work in the service of ...