Documentation:Course Design Intensive/Participants/December 2018
Welcome to the Fall 2018 session of the CDI!
We are looking forward to welcoming a new cohort during the week of December 10th - 14th, 2018. We'll meet in person on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (9am-4:30pm) and on the Tuesday and Thursday we will offer a space for you to meet with peers and/or facilitators to get feedback or support for your course designs in process.
Schedule
The CDI schedule is available to download, but work is in process and the finalized schedule may not be updated until the week before the session.
Overview
The purpose of a well designed course is to support learning. As such, strong course design is learner-centered. While many variables influence course design, alignment between learning outcomes, assessment approaches, and teaching and learning activities is the backbone of a well designed course.
During the 3-day Course Design Intensive (CDI), you will be designing or revising a course using principles of a learner-centred approach.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the CDI, you will be able to:
1. Design or re-design a learner-centered course.
2. Apply principles of alignment to your course.
3. Determine various learning activities and assessment strategies that best support your course learning outcomes.
4. Engage in peer learning as a means of iterating and refining your course design.
The Big Idea for the CDI is that course design both influences and is influenced by learning.
CDI Resources
CDI Workbook & pre-work prior to Day 1
The CDI Workbook supports your analytic thinking in the process of building, refining and iterating your course design. Please download a copy of the CDI Workbook below. You can choose to access in either Google Docs or MS Word:
The workbook is a “working document”--as you build out your course design the template charts and tables will grow (that is, if you choose to create a digital version and keep it on your device). You may also find that changing the orientation of the document to "landscape" allows a better layout of the tables in the document, and more space for your writing. We encourage you to adapt the templates to your own needs--some of you might prefer a printed copy. In this case, we suggest going through the document first, adding white space within the sections to allow you space to write and draft as your ideas emerge.
You can view the pre-work on page 2 of the workbook. Please be sure you schedule sufficient time to complete the pre-work so that learning done on your own can be further developed in the session. Please be sure you bring your completed work with you (digital or hard copies).
Wiki Learning Plans
The CDI uses a wiki to curate our resources, share out our facilitation plan and offer discussion space for questions that arise from the day's learning. Feel free to familiarize yourself with the structure and content of the wiki in advance, but please note that facilitators are making changes to this plan up until Day 1 of the session. In order to post and respond to any discussion thread in the wiki, you need to be logged in. You can find the 'login' button on the top left of any wiki page (using your CWL to log-in).
License
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When using this resource, please attribute as follows: developed by the University of British Columbia.