Workshop+Description

=**Is your course ready?! Does it need a retrofit? Are you designing a new course?**=

This hands-on intensive one-day workshop will begin with a focus on course objectives and learning outcomes and then build toward identifying assessments and instructional strategies through a process of backwards design. Being able to articulate what your course (module/program) is all about and what you want your students to achieve is critical to student learning and sound instructional design.

You will learn how to craft course objectives and learning outcomes according to the SMART principle (__**s**pecific__, __**m**__easurable, __**a**__ttainable, __**r**__ealistic and __**t**__ime-based). Participants will benefit from sharing and receiving feedback on their objectives before engaging in a process of selecting assessments that align with their objectives and identifying teaching and learning activities designed to position your students to succeed.

The course design program is designed to build on the collective knowledge and experience of the group. Come prepared to share your assessment and teaching strategies as we work through your instructional and design challenges and opportunities with colleagues from multiple disciplines.

To maximize contact time, participants are asked to spend one to two hours preparing materials in advance of the session. Workshop materials will be provided both online and in print form. Click on pre-workshop preparation activities or use the left-hand menu to navigate to the workshop prep. materials.