Has your Fall course run on Brightspace yet? There’s some work that has to be done to make a course that came from Blackboard function well in Brightspace. CTEL can help get your former-Blackboard course fixed up for the Fall 2021 term!
Practical Steps that Create Equity & Inclusion in Your Course: Step One
Background: USM President Glenn Cummings has listed equity as one of USM’s main values. In addition, equity plays a large part in priority number three of USM’s newly-minted five-year plan. For Academic Year 2020-21, CTEL will highlight one practical step…
Honing your learning objectives, part 2
In Part 2 of our blog series on learning objectives, we embrace the hard truths we learned during our previous efforts and discover how drastically a change to learning objectives can ripple through the rest of a course, requiring us to change more than just the objectives. The upside is students receive a truly challenging and engaging learning experience that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
Honing your learning objectives, part 1
Learning objectives are the foundation of a course. They describe things your students will be able to do once they complete your course, and they act as a design tool in the process of developing a course to keep you focused on important content. Flaws in them will be felt by you and your students throughout your course. It can also be daunting to create or rewrite them for a course that you already teach because, if done properly, they will reveal uncomfortable truths about it.
