The online student population is becoming increasingly complex. Although people typically think of online students as older working professionals, Clinefelter, Aslanian, and Magda (2019) note that this population is beginning…
Most faculty know that the best practice when designing a course is leveraging the principle of backwards design: Begin with where you want your students to end (what skills and…
The adoption of a master course philosophy involves an institution developing content for a single version of a course, which is then duplicated each time that course is offered. These…
The term module means different things to different people. For our purposes, modules are containers—organizational units or buckets of content—that you use to organize the components of your course. One…
Whatever the objective, knowing one’s goal is key to achieving it. This simple adage is the essence of backward design and helps in building modules that prepare students for success.…
Course design is especially critical for online courses because you have to produce your course materials in advance. Once the course is live and students are enrolled, it’s much harder…