High school Principal Pete Steedman begins every school year by telling his staff to read an article by Grant Wiggins titled, “The Futility of Trying to Teach Everything of Importance.” “I love what ...

The Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation is pleased to offer Best Practices in University Teaching. The workshop will present pedagogical best practices used at Johns Hopkins and peer ...

It’s easy to switch into automatic pilot mode when it comes to planning a course. It goes something like this: (1) we look at the topic of the course we’re ...

Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...

Each May, the CTL hosts a three-day, hands-on Course Design Workshop for faculty. Participants explore key instructional frameworks—including flipped, hybrid, and online formats—and learn to design or ...

In my copious spare time, I enjoy compiling a list of bad ideas for universities. Here’s what’s currently at the top: Free College – where tuition is covered – but not the more expensive cost of ...

When designing a course, where do you begin? Perhaps you typically begin by identifying topics you’d like to address or texts you want to include. In this approach, the focus is primarily on content ...