The MTA is going off the rails again! One of the biggest issues that has been plaguing its Second Avenue subway extension — a pie-in-the-sky design that already saddled straphangers with millions of ...

Educators may now be familiar with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s (ACGME) recognition of competency-based medical education through their introduction of Milestones for ...

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 ...

It’s easy to switch into automatic pilot mode when it comes to planning a course. It goes something like this: (1) we look at the topic of the course we’re ...

First impressions count and are worthy of preparatory efforts. In educational video production, especially for online courses, the introduction videos that make first impressions are among the more ...

The pandemic-driven switch to remote learning alerted many faculty members to the importance of course design. In an online course, keeping students on track requires clarity and structure; it also ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Since defending my dissertation in 2013, I have worn several hats at the University of Michigan. As a ...

Process systems often have very long lifecycles. Not that systems aren’t updated from time to time, but unlike other sectors, it isn’t all that rare to find a decades-old system still quietly doing ...

As online learning courses continue to grow, the need for quality standards has become critical. CLU utilizes Quality Matters (QM) standards to guide the course design process. Quality Matters (QM) is ...

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 ...

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 ...