Resources
Course Planning Tool
This course planning tool was created to assist applicants in the instructional
design process that is essential to any course redesign project. It is based on the ADDIE instructional design model (Analysis — Design — Development — Implementation — Evaluation).
Each of the sections contains a brief overview, followed by questions
that will help you work through each phase of the process. This tool
is intended to be self-reflective and is not a required component of
the proposal application.
»Course Planning Tool
Goals: Explanation and Resources
- • Capstone courses. Develop the ability to integrate academic knowledge with experiences that extend the boundaries of the classroom. (Goal #7) A capstone course may be discipline-centered or interdisciplinary, and is the culminating undergraduate experience. The course requires students to integrate, synthesize, and reflect on what has been learned across a program of study.
- » Designing Powerful Senior Seminars and Capstone Courses (PowerPoint presentation)
» Capstone Course Purpose and Planning (Word file)
» Using a Capstone Course to Assess a Variety of Skills (Word file)
» An Assessment Program Built Around a Capstone Course (Word file)
» Classroom Assessment Techniques (Word file)
- • Quantitative reasoning. Attain effective skills in oral and written communication, quantitative reasoning, and the use of information technology. (Goal #1) Quantitative reasoning is the ability to analyze, interpret and effectively utilize quantitative data. Skills can include creating, reading and interpreting graphs, completing basic mathematical computations, and problem solving. Not limited to math courses.
- » Quantitative Reasoning Across Disciplines: It’s Not Just Math 114 (PowerPoint presentation)
» Quantitative Reasoning: Responding to New Challenges (PowerPoint presentation)
» What is Quantitative Literacy? (Word file)
» Embracing Numeracy (pdf file)
» Achieving Numeracy: The Challenge of Implementation (pdf file)
» Interdisciplinary Quantitative Reasoning (Word file)
- • Student Multimedia Design Center. Attain effective skills in oral and written communication, quantitative reasoning, and the use of information technology. (Goal #1) A collaborative multimedia center located in Morris Library opens in spring 2007. The new center will accommodate the rehearsal and recording of oral presentations, collaboration with the Oral Communication Fellows program, and the student creation of multimedia-based learning artifacts.
- » Student Multimedia Design Center
- • Academic and student affairs. Develop the ability to integrate academic knowledge with experiences that extend the boundaries of the classroom. (Goal #7) The academic and student life programs explore opportunities to develop partnerships which combine knowledge acquisition in an academic setting with experiential learning in a student life setting to foster an integrated learning environment and enriched undergraduate education.
- » Office of Campus Life
» Residence Life
» Student Centers Programming Advisory Board
» Learning Reconsidered: A Campus-Wide Focus on the Student Experience (pdf file)
» Learning Reconsidered: A Summary (PowerPoint presentation)
» Colleges as Communities: Taking Research on Student Persistence Seriously
» Understanding the Role of Academic and Student Affairs: Collaboration in Creating a Successful Learning Environment
• Other Goals. Meritorious proposals strongly supporting any one General Education Goal will be considered.
» Ten Goals of Undergraduate Education
- • Assessment. Assessment is a required component of all proposals. The following assessment resources are courtesy of Peggy Maki from her June 2004 General Education Institute sessions.
- » Assessing Our Complex Expectations for Student Learning (PowerPoint presentation)
» From Outcomes to Evidence of Learning (PowerPoint presentation)
» Curricular Map Example (Excel file)
» Quantitative Reasoning Scoring Rubric (Word File)
» Information Literacy Scoring Rubric (Word file)
» Institutional Example: Hampden-Sydney College (Word file)
» Inventory Questions (Word file)
» Geography Example (Word file)
» The Center for Teaching Effectiveness has a web page of assessment and evaluation resources.
» University of Delaware Office of Educational Assessment.