Course Design

Course design

These resources provide templates, information, and strategies to assist you in designing your course with key instructional design principles.

• Alignment Chart - Broad | Activities | Technology
• Module Organizer Description | Document
• Curriculum Alignment Matrix - Online| Blended| On Ground
• Course Mapping Template - New Mexico State University

• Michigan University’s Center for Research on Teaching and Learning – Course Design
• Stanford Teaching Commons - Course Design

• Fink, L. D. (2003) Creating significant learning experiences: An integrated approach to designing college courses. Jossey-Bass
• Wiggins, Grant, and McTighe, Jay. (1998). Backward Design. In Understanding by Design (pp. 13-34). ASCD

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Bloom's Taxonomy (1956) is a framework for focusing course components in higher and lower level thinking skills. Bloom's Taxonomy is used to write measurable learning objectives and designing aligned assessments. This resource provides an explanation of the cognitive domain along with a few verbs that can be used for writing learning objectives. There are several other Bloom's Taxonomy verb lists available. This one is not all inclusive.

• Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching - Bloom’s Taxonomy

Teaching Problems

Consult this Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center website to help you diagnose your own teaching problem and find solutions that work for you.