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Cutting Edge Course Design Tutorial

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Overview:: The tutorial is intended to help instructors revitalize a course. Content includes identifying what students need to learn, integrating active learning and student-centered approaches, assessment, syllabus development, and follow-through. The learner is asked to fill out worksheets to help integrate the content into their courses. By the end of the tutorial, the course plan could be 90% completed.
Type of Material:: Tutorial
Recommended Uses:: This tutorial would be useful in training faculty and/or instructional designers how to develop new courses in an individual or group setting. It can be used face-to-face or online.
Technical Requirements:: I used Google Chrome. Some downloads require Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and/or Adobe Acrobat.
Identify Major Learning Goals:: The tutorial will help instructors fully develop a course or reassess a current course or series of courses. It helps to clarify essential skills students need as they enter the workplace and develop strategies for real learning, including scaffolding and higher-level cognition.
Target Student Population:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: None

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Strengths:: The tutorial is very detailed with in-depth instructions and many examples.
Concerns:: Although detailed, some elements are unclear and repetitive with excessive nudges to see other links or download materials using other programs.

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Strengths:: This tutorial is thoughtfully crafted and includes many resources to help faculty develop courses.
Concerns:: It takes a long time to complete. This is stated up front, and there is value in taking that time, but could be a deterrent towards completion.

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Strengths:: The tutorial has clear instructions and is interactive.
Concerns:: There are not a lot of visual elements and several of the external links are dead. Some links take the user back to previous steps (or future steps), so the navigation could be improved slightly to make it less clunky.

Other Issues and Comments:: There are not a lot of visual elements and several of the external links are dead. Some links take the user back to previous steps (or future steps), so the navigation could be improved slightly to make it more suer friendly.
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