Course Redesign to Advance Student Success

In this virtual professional development six-session series, participants will engage in a comprehensive course redesign experience, exploring the integration of evidence-based and student-centered teaching practices to promote student success. Through collaborative sessions, participants will examine teaching and learning practices, instructional techniques, strategies, and digital tools to inform the redesign of their courses that affirm students.

Sessions will introduce strategies that holistically engage the lived experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives of students while using digital technologies to support their success. Instructors will examine course elements and redesign instructional activities and assessments to center the learner. Participants will explore instructional approaches for developing student-centered policies, authentic assessments, active learning experience, and the effective use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and AI to cultivate a sense of belonging and relevance. Participants will develop a personalized course redesign action plan to improve outcomes for students.

Coaching and comprehensive feedback will guide participants through the application of new learning.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop series, participants will be able to:

1. Develop a personalized course redesign action plan that aligns learning outcomes with assessments, learning activities, and content, with attention to leveraging digital technologies that support student success.
2. Design a syllabus that promotes student success, student agency, and ownership of their learning. Additionally, providing language that articulates effective guidelines for AI-assisted learning.
3. Integrate strategies for developing classroom community and interaction that validate students as capable learners.
4. Design or redesign an assessment plan that allows for authentic measurement of student learning, invites students’ prior knowledge, and is renewable so that the impact of student work continues beyond the course.
5. Explore disciplinary open educational resources and open pedagogy practices that support student performance and generate a sense of belonging in the course.
6. Design or redesign accessible activities that encourage active learning, respect place-based learning environments, and connect to students’ community, that use techniques to affirm students demonstrating knowledge and learning in ways that are meaningful to them.

Service Deliverables

1. Initial start of a course blueprint
2. Worksheets progressing through backwards design and overall alignment

Service Format

Blended

Configuration

Facilitated, scheduled

Service Duration

Six or 12 weeks

Contact Hours

Four hours

Time on Task

12 to 16 total hours