Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Most people with “instructional design” in their job title are involved in converting “traditional” written curriculum or in-person teaching into an online course. Lesson 3: Determine the “powerful ideas” you want to teach and build your curriculum using backwards design.

Feedback 163

Feedback Failure Lecturing Reading 163

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

By marrying those two things together—the curriculum design, which is very engineering-like, and the classroom performance, which is very artistic—you get the John Branch combination. That’s the engineering side of my brain. Tell me about your Armchair Anthropologist assignment.

Quizzes 167

Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

While MasterClass offers taped lectures on cooking by chef Gordon Ramsay, guitar shredding by musician Carlos Santana and creative writing by youth fiction author Judy Blume, the first Outlier courses teach calculus I and introductory psychology. Student assessments, Rasmussen says, are graded by “robots.”

Lecturing 115

Lecturing Textbooks Course Design Instructors 115

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

2016) depict co-creation in learning and teaching as an activity involving staff and student collaborative work to create parts of the curriculum and pedagogical approaches. A Model of Active Student Participation in Curriculum Design: Exploring Desirability and Possibility. Bovill et al., In Rust, C. 2016): 195-208.

Discussions 97

Discussions Reading Instructors Lecturing 97

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

It will last only one calendar year, feature a curriculum designed in close coordination with well-known employers, and cost nothing—at least at the outset. The whole model seems designed to scale easily, and he says the amount and speed of growth will depend on student demand.

Art 132

Art Lecturing Writing Curriculum 132

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

The greater the access to higher education, the more dynamic a curriculum must be to effectively and equitably educate and elevate the learning experiences of all students. Two Forms of Curriculum in Higher Education There are two forms of curriculum in higher education.

Course Design 62

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 62

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

The greater the access to higher education, the more dynamic a curriculum must be to effectively and equitably educate and elevate the learning experiences of all students. Two Forms of Curriculum in Higher Education There are two forms of curriculum in higher education.

Course Design 61

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

Teach Your Kids

MAY 6, 2025

Sitting in a classroom listening to lectures does not equal knowing how to read. The more I watch how children learn and the creative ways that families have found to follow their children’s curiosity, the less interested I am in structured, systematic curriculum designed to instruct or reinforce concepts taught in school.

Reading 96

Reading Writing Languages Language 96