a framework for toolmaking
CIDR Teaching and Learning Bulletin
Excerpt:
1) Who are the students?
Before class begins, find out as much as you can about the students. You have your own experience as a source of information, as well as that of fellow faculty and staff in your department.
2(a) What do you want students to be able to do?
Considering who the students are, what should they be able to do at the end of the course that they couldn’t necessarily do coming into it?
2(b) How will you know what students are able to do?
Considering who the students are, and what you want them to be able to do, what will provide you with reliable evidence during the course that they are learning and, at the end of the course, that they have learned?
3) Course Activities, Assignments, and Materials:
Design your course around activities that are most likely to lead students toward the goals you have defined.
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