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Fundamentals  of  Course  Design  I:  Developing  Learning  Goals  

Kris%  Rudenga  Joseph  Michalka  

Kaneb  Center  for  Teaching  and  Learning  

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Workshop  Goals  

•  Upon  successful  comple%on  of  this  workshop,  you  will  be  able  to:  – Understand  and  appreciate  the  importance  of  goal-­‐directed  course  design  – Ar%culate  learning  goals  for  a  variety  of  courses  

•  You  will  leave  with  learning  goals  for  a  future  course  

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Integrated  Course  Design  

     Fink,  L.  Dee  (2003).  Crea%ng  Significant  Learning  Experiences:  An  Integrated  Approach  to  Designing  College  Courses.    

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GeUng  Started  

•  “What  big  ques%ons  will  my  course  help  students  answer,  or  what  skills,  abili%es,  or  quali%es  will  it  help  them  develop  and  how  will  I  encourage  my  students’  interest  in  these  ques%ons  and  abili%es?”  

Bain,  Ken.  What  The  Best  College  Teachers  Do  (2004).  Harvard  University  Press,  Cambridge,  MA.  (pp  21,  48-­‐67)  

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Big  Ques%ons  

• What  ques%ons  should  students  be  able  to  answer  or  think  about  more  effec%vely  by  the  end  of  your  course?  

Huston,  Therese.  (2012).  Teaching  What  You  Don’t  Know.  Harvard  University  Press.  Cambridge  Massachusees.  London,  England.    

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Big  Ques%on  Examples  •  Introduc%on  to  Chemistry  –  How  can  everything  we  know  of  in  the  world  be  made  from  less  than  125  elements?  How  do  those  elements  connect  and  interact  with  each  other?  

•  American  Women’s  History  (UNC  History  Dept)  – What  makes  American  women’s  experiences  dis%nct  from  men  and  from  one  another?  How  have  women  contributed  to  the  development  of  the  United  States?  

•  Food  &  the  Brain  (Notre  Dame  PSY  dept)  

– What  happens  in  your  brain  when  you  eat  a  piece  of  chocolate?  Why  might  you  eat  more  when  you  are  stressed  out?  How  do  these  processes  differ  across  individuals?  

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Learning  Goals  

– What  do  we  want  the  students  to  accomplish  in  the  course?  – How  do  we  want  our  students  to  be  different  a=er  this  course?  

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Why  Ar%culate  Learning  Goals?  

•  Iden%fy  the  most  important  outcomes  for  the  course    •  Keep  the  course  focused    •  Form  the  basis  for  designing  assessments/  assignments    •  Add  transparency  for  the  students  – Improves  student  performance  

•  Decrease  %me  spent  responding  to  student  work  

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When  Wri%ng  Student  Learning  Goals  

•  Use  specific  language    – Students  will  be  able  to  •  Describe,  Analyze,  Argue,  Solve,  Create,  Compare,  etc.  

•  Avoid  vague  or  passive  language  – Goals  of  knowing  and  understanding  are  valuable  but  vague  • What  would  a  student  do  to  demonstrate  their  knowledge/understanding?  

– Avoid  passive  language  such  as  “Students  will  be  exposed  to…”  

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Learner-­‐centered  

•  “Upon  successful  comple%on  of  this  course,  you  will  be  able  to”  •  Try  focusing  on  the  following:  – Knowledge  – Skills  – AUtudes  

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Bloom’s  Taxonomy  

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Example:  Introduc%on  to  Chemistry  

•  Upon  successful  comple%on  of  this  course,  you  will  be  able  to:  – predict  simple  chemical  formulas  and  geometries.  –   understand  the  reasoning  for  the  periodic  table’s  structure  as  well  as  be  able  to  predict  trends  involving  ioniza%on  energies,  electron  affini%es,  and  other  chemical  proper%es.  

– describe  and  be  able  to  solve  problems  involving  the  ideal  gas  law  and  simple  thermodynamic  rela%onships.  

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Example:  Food  &  the  Brain  

•  Upon  successful  comple%on  of  this  course,  you  will  be  able  to:  – explain  the  func%on  of  brain  circuits  in  normal  and  pathological  feeding  behavior;  describe  current  scien%fic  evidence  for  the  role  of  the  central  nervous  system  in  the  control  of  food  intake.  

–  read  and  analyze  primary  scien%fic  literature;  cri%que  and  evaluate  that  literature  orally  and  in  wri%ng.  

– draw  and  communicate  connec%ons  between  principles  learned  in  this  class  and  your  own  ea%ng  behaviors  

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Example:  American  Women’s  History    

•  Upon  successful  comple%on  of  this  course,  you  will  be  able  to:  – understand  how  individuals  are  shaped  by  their  own  past  and  by  the  past  of  their  society  and  ins%tu%ons;  describe  the  opera%ons  of  large-­‐scale  forces  responsible  for  causing  change  over  %me,  such  as  poli%cs,  economics,  and  religion.    

–  read  and  understand  a  variety  of  literary  forms,  including  primary  (diploma%c  correspondence,  journalis%c  reports,  and  private  papers)  as  well  as  secondary  sources  (academic  prose);  analyze  and  construct  cause-­‐and-­‐effect  rela%onships  from  disparate  data  sources.    

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Measurability  •  Part  of  any  course  involves  assessing  students  in  order  to  assign  grades  and  provide  feedback.  

•  It  can  be  helpful  while  determining  your  learning  goals  to  consider  the  assessment  methods  you  are  planning  on  employing  –  “Predict  simple  chemical  formulas  and  geometries”  could  be  tested  simply  with  mul%ple  choice,  or  require  greater  thought  by  the  students,  if  they  must  generate  appropriate  structures.  

–  “Read  and  analyze  primary  scien%fic  literature;  cri%que  and  evaluate  that  literature  orally  and  in  wri%ng”  

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Balanced  Course  Design  

     Fink,  L.  Dee  (2003).  Crea%ng  Significant  Learning  Experiences:  An  Integrated  Approach  to  Designing  College  Courses.    

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Helpful  Resources  •  Bain,  Ken.  (2004).  What  the  Best  College  Teachers  Do.  

Harvard  University  Press.  Cambridge  Massachusees.  London,  England.    

•  Fink,  L.  Dee.  (2003).  Crea%ng  Significant  Learning  Experiences:  An  Integrated  Approach  to  Designing  College  Courses.  Jossey-­‐Bass.  –  A  Self-­‐Directed  Guide  to  Designing  Courses  for  Significant  Learning  

•  Huston,  Therese.  (2012).  Teaching  What  You  Don’t  Know.  Harvard  University  Press.  Cambridge  Massachusees.  London,  England.    

•  McKeachie,  W.J.  and  Svinicki,  M.  (2006).  McKeachie’s  Teaching  Tips:  Strategies,  Research,  and  Theory  for  College  and  University  Teachers.  Houghton  Mifflin  Company.  Boston,  MA  and  New  York.