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Course and Program Design

Course Design - self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning (.doc) by L. Dee Fink, based on his book Creating significant learning experiences: An integrated approach to designing college courses, 2003. Posted with permission.

Guiding questions to ask when planning your course/class session (PDF) by L. Dee Fink adapted for educational purposes with permission of the publisher.

Teaching Goals Inventory, University of Iowa

The curriculum map is a communication tool that visually aligns a program’s student learning outcomes, instructional activities and primary assessment methods. It is situated within the broader context of the University and College goals for graduate education. It articulates graduate student development from senior learner, to colleague-in-training, to junior colleague (Sprague & Nyquist, 1991). The curriculum map provides insight into curricular coherence and content emphasis, and indicates areas of scholarship in the program.