Design Materials

Documents & Templates

These documents and templates are available to help you develop your course plan for either your online or in-person course. Using these documents to create a narrative of all the materials and interactions that will take place during the course will allow you to focus on creating and curating course content before adding that content to Brightspace. This is key to sustainable, high-quality course design

Design Process

• Start Here: Online Course Development Guide

• Post-Pandemic Guide to In Person Course Development

• Designing for Uncertainty: Planning Blended Learning

Templates

• Live Syllabus Template

• Online Course Plan Template

  • Example 1: Completed Course Plan Template

• In Person:

  • Skills & Processes Course Plan Template

  • Content Mastery Course Plan Template

  • Experiential or Project-Based Course Plan Template

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Online Weekly Plan Examples

• • Example 1: Weekly Plan for a Content Mastery Focused Course

  • Example 2: Weekly Plan for a Skills/Process Focused Course

  • Example 3: Weekly Plan for an Experiential/Project-Based Course

Tool Guides

• Table of Contents to all Guides

• Getting Started With DIY Video

Bibliography 

This brief selection of books and articles should prove useful for understanding best practices for designing meaningful online learning experiences. 

• Brookfield, Stephen, and Stephen Preskill. Discussion as a Way of Teaching. Jossey-Bass, 2005.  Chapters 11 & 12 address discussion in online courses: https://bobcat.library.nyu.edu/permalink/f/ci13eu/nyu_aleph006254359

• Flower, Darby, and James Lang. Small Teaching Online. Jossey-Bass, 2019. https://bobcat.library.nyu.edu/permalink/f/ci13eu/nyu_aleph007372450

• Hodges, Charles, et. al. "The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning." Educause Review, 27 Mar. 2020. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/3/the-difference-between-emergency-remote-teaching-and-online-learning. Accessed 23 Apr. 2020.

Other Design Approaches

• Dee Fink's classic Backward Design guide: A Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning (PDF)

• Decoding the Disciplines: Decoding the Disciplines Process for Increasing Student Learning

• Learner-centered Design: Universal Design for Learning

• Metacognition: Getting Started with Learning to Learn Approaches to Design