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This is an exercise I did in a Backward Design Workshop. The original question was ‘What do people still value, do, and value 5 years after coming to the centre?’
I thought I should ask YOU what you still know, do and value since we met through my work as an Educational Developer.
Handout from the POD Network 2015 session: Backwards Design to Your Centre
Teaching is often an isolated activity at our setting. Getting a group of colleagues together and facilitated rich discussions about course design and designing courses that transform learning is something I deeply care about.
What Do I Consider Essential or Critical?
* An open, safe environment where existing thoughts can be shared, supported, challenged, reinforced, defended, influenced, shattered, changed, etc
* Attention to the diverse needs of our participants
* Framework, theory, evidence in effective course design
* Exemplary teaching practices that work in different context at UBC
* Attenuated to academic culture
* An open, flexible workshop structure modeled based on frameworks such as Dee Fink, Wiggins & McTighe, etc.
* A team of open, knowledgeable facilitators who model the theories and practices
My thoughts generated during our Redesign of the Course Design Intensive offered through the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology.
Planning Online Course cc licensed (BY NC SA) Flickr photo by Giuliana Forsythe
