{"id":201,"date":"2020-06-30T09:23:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/ctl\/?page_id=201"},"modified":"2020-06-30T09:23:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T13:23:18","slug":"innovations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/ctl\/teaching-resources\/designing-courses\/innovations\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovations in Course Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New ideas for how to think about course design appear in the news and blogosphere frequently. Below are a couple of innovations that appear to have some traction:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backward Design:\u00a0<\/strong>A (relatively) new trend in course design is to implement what is called Backward Design, which involves designing a course in a way that starts with your learning goals first and works backward from there to develop the assignments and course structure. \u00a0For more details on backward design and how it can be used to help you develop or redesign your course, check out these resources from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.georgetown.edu\/teaching\/handbook\/backward-design\/\">Georgetown University<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/teaching-guides\/pedagogical\/understanding-by-design\/\">Vanderbilt University<\/a>. Also read past CTL Fellow Kathleen Archer\u2018s report on implementing backward design in one of her Trinity courses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flipped Classroom: <\/strong>The flipped classroom (also known as \u201cpeer instruction\u201d) has garnered a lot of media attention recently. A flipped classroom occurs when students are asked to watch a video of a lecture and\/or carefully read course materials outside of class \u2013 \u00a0and class time is then used interactively to help students synthesize and deeply understand the materials. For an excellent (and detailed) explanation of the flipped classroom, we recommend these resources from <a href=\"http:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/teaching-guides\/teaching-activities\/flipping-the-classroom\/\">Vanderbilt University<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/ctl.utexas.edu\/teaching\/flipping_a_class\/what_is_flipped\">University of Texas<\/a>. There is also a blog focused on the flipped classroom that can be accessed at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.peerinstruction.net\">http:\/\/blog.peerinstruction.net<\/a>. Finally, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=r2b7GeuqkPc\">here<\/a> for a one-minute video clip that defines the flipped classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New ideas for how to think about course design appear in the news and blogosphere frequently. 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