Establishing learning objectives should be the starting point for your course. Your department may already have these created so be sure to check with your department chair. If these have not been ...

Extensive research has demonstrated that setting learning goals could benefit academic performance, learning motivation, and attendance rate. The current research further focused on the content of ...

Specific review standards 2.1 and 2.2 are the foundation of the alignment standards for Quality Matters just as the learning objectives are the foundation of course design. Standard 2.1 requires that ...

Assessment of course quality, student learning, and professor effectiveness has become paramount in many of today’s universities and colleges. We seem always to strive for a better way to assess our ...

The course structure refers to the choice of topics and the organization and sequencing of course content. Remember that the choice of topics and their organization should always support the learning ...

New and emerging GenAI tools can assist educators throughout the entire course development process, from initial planning to final production. Course design typically follows a backward-design method, ...

Quality Matters Standard 2.4 is an essential (3 point) standard requiring that the relationship between the objectives and the learning activities are clearly stated. The annotation indicates that the ...

IDEA recommends that a total of 3-5 objectives is a good rule of thumb. You can select them as either "important," or "essential," with essential objectives double weighed (counting twice) in the ...

Generally, a range of background knowledge and skills among students is expected and even productive. However, when there is a significant group of students who lack the critical prior knowledge ...