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 validates 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.

Module Level Learning Outcomes

Session 1: Foundations of Student Centered and Student Affirming AI-Assisted Course Design

Objectives:

• Understand the principles of student centered and evidence-based teaching along with role of digital technologies in enhancing learning experiences.

• Reflect on personal teaching philosophies and how to integrate digital technologies that center students’ learning goals and preferences.

• Begin developing a framework for incorporating digital technologies to personalize learning and addressing student needs.

Session 2: Creating a Student-Centered Syllabus

Objectives:

• Learn how to design a student-centered syllabus that communicates a commitment to student success and agency.

• Explore ways to articulate clear learning outcomes that consider AI-assisted learning tools and ethical considerations.

• Discuss strategies for introducing AI tools in the syllabus that foster a sense of belonging and transparency about their use in the course.

Session 3: Designing Authentic and Student-Centered Assessments

Objectives:

• Examine different types of assessments that align with student centered teaching, including how AI can support formative and summative assessments.

• Develop strategies for designing assessments that invite students’ prior knowledge and consider the use of AI to provide personalized feedback and adaptive learning pathways.

• Explore the concept of renewable assignments that integrate AI, allowing students to engage in real-world problem-solving and authentic AI usage beyond the course.

Session 4: Leveraging Open Educational Resources, Open Pedagogy, and AI Tools

Objectives:

• Understand the benefits of using open educational resources (OER) and AI tools to enhance learning.

• Explore open pedagogy practices that empower students as co-creators of knowledge, using AI to enhance collaboration and creativity.

• Identify disciplinary-specific OER and AI tools that can be integrated into course content to enhance student agency and ethical AI use.

Session 5: Leveraging Student Voice to Collaboratively Inform Course Redesign to Advance Student Agency, Learning, and Success

Objectives:

• Explore methods for incorporating student feedback and input in designing accessible and engaging learning experiences that meet the needs of students with varied backgrounds.

• Discuss the role of place-based learning and co-design with students to connect course content to their communities and lived experiences while considering AI assisted learning approaches.

• Develop strategies that foster active student engagement and collaborative course design while encouraging students to exercise agency to co-construct an inclusive learning environment and community.

Session 6: Developing an Action Plan for Implementation and Evaluation

Objectives:

• Develop an action plan to support your course re-design or design process while integrating new teaching approaches and assessment designs that promote student success.

• Craft an evaluation plan to capture impact and effectiveness of course re-design.

• Consider methods for scaling successful practices across courses, departments, and institutions, focusing on systemic change and ethical considerations.

Service Deliverables

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

Service Duration

Six 1.5-hour sessions plus 1 to 2 hours per week to complete worksheets, course blueprint and overall alignment with action tasks . Total of 12 to 18 hours total to complete the course.

Contact Hours

1.5 hours every other week engaging in facilitated sessions

Time on Task

1 to 2 hours per week to complete elements of the action plan

Capacity

Cap of 40 participants; No limit on number of institutions