In the quest for improving skills and knowledge, organizations often take a one-sided approach to developing learning programs. However, there must be a balance between what employees need and what ...

Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...

It is easy to view the task of drafting learning objectives as a mere administrative hurdle—one more box to check for a syllabus or a department review. However, when we move beyond the "paperwork" ...

When you begin creating a course, you want to design with the end in mind. The best way to approach this is to start by writing measurable course learning objectives. Course learning objectives are ...

For students from diverse social, cultural and economic backgrounds, the classroom can either mirror the hierarchies and disparities that they experience in the world, or challenge them. For students ...

• Brief 4 - Examining student growth and teacher ratings on the SLOs In the first brief, we highlight implications associated with using different SLO delivery models in 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. We ...

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 ...