Course Design Institute (CDI) - Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching

The Summer 2024 course design institute occurred on Monday, August 5th - Thursday, August 8th, 9am-4pm.

Doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars that are currently teaching or preparing to teach are invited to register.

Join a community of innovative instructors to rethink your course design through an inclusive, learner-centered framework. Discover evidence-based teaching methods and assessments which foster students and instructors’ wellbeing. Participants will receive access to a Canvas site with all course materials and a hard copy of the text Learning that matters: A field guide to course design for transformative education (2021).

In this four day institute you will:

Develop inclusive, learner-centered course outcomes to guide the design of the course
Identify evidence-based teaching methods, learning activities, and assessments which equitably support learners in achieving course outcomes
Create an inclusive and welcoming syllabus for your course

Outline:

Day 1: Who am I? Who are my learners?
Day 2: Backward course design & alignment
Day 3: Inclusive teaching methods and assessment
Day 4: Pulling it all together, an inclusive course syllabus

This institute will be hosted in person on the Medford campus. If being in-person precludes you from participating, we will provide a Zoom link which you can use to join the in-person sessions. While we will do our best to be inclusive, we cannot promise equivalent experiences for those joining remotely.

CELT’s Asynchronous Canvas Course Design Tutorial

The Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) created this tutorial to guide you through the process of designing a new course or revising an existing course with a lens of inclusive, learner-centered teaching. This asynchronous and unmoderated course is designed to model design features and tools you may wish to include in your own course. It will also provide you with the opportunity to experience the perspective of being a student in an online course. Instructors at Tufts can access this tutorial at any time and from anywhere - click here for the link to view the course within Canvas and enroll yourself.

Past participants have said:

"This opportunity to participate in this institute was eye-opening, insightful, and overwhelming (in a good way!) I appreciated the learning strategies and hearing from other faculty their feedback, ideas, and creative suggestions to reinforce learning outcomes/intentions/student goals in the course."

"I learned new teaching strategies which I think will improve the students learning and keep them engaged."

"It gave me a lot of ideas about how to make a class interactive while still delivering a lot of course content. It also gave me a lot of ways to make a course more widely accessible and inviting to students."

"As a first-year instructor, there is a lot that I didn't really know about course design that I feel more confident about now, and the practical strategies were really helpful in my decisions around assessments and class activities."

For more information, contact celt@tufts.edu

For a participant perspective on the program, contact any of the past CDI participants.

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