Documentation:Course Design Intensive/Participants/November 2017

Schedule

You can download the 3 day schedule here.

Wiki: Daily Resources

The CDI uses a wiki to curate our resources and share out our facilitation plan. Please note that facilitators are making changes to this plan up until Day 1 of the session. Feel free to familiarize yourself with the structure of the wiki in advance.

• Day 1 Learning Plan
• Day 2 Learning Plan
• Day 3 Learning Plan
• Resources

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes will (in part) be informed by your participation in the CDI. As a place to start (and to guide our planning), we propose outcomes for the session and for each day.

CDI Working Guide

Please download a copy of the CDI Working Guide. Complete Part A and bring it to Day 1. You can choose to access the document in either Google Docs or MS Word:

• Google Doc version (make a copy): https://goo.gl/4Wq2hE
• MS Word version:

Pre-Work for Day 1

Pre-work for Day 1

• Readings:

• Allen, D. & Tanner, K (2007). Putting the Horse Back in Front of the Cart: Using Visions and Decisions about High-Quality Learning Experiences to Drive Course Design CBE Life Sciences Education
• Felder, R. & Brent, R. (2017). Learner-Centered Teaching: How and Why
• (optional) Davidovitch, N. (2013) Learning Centered Teaching and Backward Course Design. pdf NOTE: This is a great article for those of you interested in changes affecting higher education and how learner-centred teaching contributes positively to those changes. The article is slow at the beginning but gets going halfway through page 2.

• Video to watch: * Backwards Design Video Note: most relevant, up to 4 mins 42 seconds.

• CDI Working Guide: Please download a copy of the CDI Working Guide (above) . Complete Part A (Learning Context & Situational Factors) and bring to Day 1.

• Learning Outcomes (optional): If you haven't completed the Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) and are not familiar with creating Learning Outcomes, you may want to prepare yourself in advance by reviewing the Learning Outcomes resources (Day 1 homework at the end of Day 1 Learning Plan on the wiki).

License

When using this resource, please attribute as follows: developed by the University of British Columbia.