Course Design and Lesson Planning
Communicating Course Outcomes to Students - PDF
Making course outcomes clear to students helps everyone stay on track.
When planning for effective instruction it is important to consider course goals, organization of experiences, student practice, and evidence of learning.
Scaffolding Content for Student Learning - PDF
Scaffold your course content to increase student learning.
Helping Students Develop Higher-Order Thinking Skills - PDF
Bloom’s Taxonomy illustrates a hierarchy of cognitive processes, and is often an underlying component of educational work. This taxonomy is a valuable resource that can help instructors align lectures, assignments, and exams with course goals.
Experts and Novices: Connections Make the Difference - PDF
As experts, instructors create and maintain a complex mental network of important
facts, concepts, and procedures related to their content area. Learn strategies for
helping novice learners make the same important connections.