Online Course Design for Significant Learning This 3-week, 32-hour institute uses Zoom for synchronous presentations and participant sharing with content for asynchronous activities online in the D2L Brightspace learning management system for faculty at Metropolitan State University who are creating a new course, want to improve a current course, and modify a course to deliver…

Faculty and instructional designers realize the importance of delivering courses with a clear, 20/20 focus. Many faculty have had little formal experience in designing courses to deliver significant learning. With the COVID-19 virus, the need for dual course delivery is essential. Even after the pandemic, other environmental challenges will force courses to change delivery modes…

Time:  11:45 Central time. Participants will examine a full 360° view of the Cycle of Course Design model. Participants will assess their current practice in utilizing the full set of elements in the cycle as way to improve course design, measure course quality and student learning, meet their program or department and institutional outcomes, and…

Through team-based learning, participants will examine a full 360° view of the Cycle of Course Design model. Participant teams will work through the cycle’s activities to demonstrate the components as they compare this innovative campus model to their current practice. Team discussion will focus on an activity at their table to examine the elements of…

Courses today need a design to take learning and environmental challenges into consideration. Few of us have had much experience with this which forced us into emergency remote teaching. Snow, floods earthquakes and pandemics have provided significant barriers to campus operations and learning. This session examines the importance of designing courses to have the flexibility…