Course Construction and Backwards Design
Vanderbilt University – Center for Teaching
Derek Bruff, Director – Agile Learning Blog
The Center maintains a site with extensive teaching guides licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and available for our use. These guides are organized under five categories. I have selected a few under each category that I use when I teach teachers to teach with technology.
PRINCIPLES and FRAMEWORKS
Understanding Learning
- Understanding by Design (Backwards Design) – Grant Wiggins teaching concepts from his book of the same title
- How People Learn
- Motivating Students
- Active Learning by Cynthia J. Brame, CFT Assistant Director
- Flipping the Classroom by Cynthia J. Brame, CFT Assistant Director
- Blended and Online Learning by Blaine Smith and Cynthia Brame
PEDAGOGIES and STRATEGIES
Active Learning – review section with exemplars
REFLECTING and ASSESSING
- Assessing Student Learning by Michael R. Fisher, Jr., Graduate Teaching Fellow, and Joe Bandy, CFT Assistant Director
- Grading Student Work
- Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
CHALLENGES and OPPORTUNITIES
- Developing and Writing a Diversity Statement by Sara L. Beck, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow
- The First Day of Class
- Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary
- Teaching Race: Pedagogy and Practice by Amie Thurber, M. Brielle Harbin and Joe Bandy
- Blended and Online Learning by Blaine Smith and Cynthia Brame
- Learning and course Management Systems by Richard Coble, PhD, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow
- Wireless in the classroom by Rhett McDaniel, CFT Educational Technologist
