Our consultants often meet with individual faculty members and associate instructors to help design new courses or revitalize existing ones. The principles guiding our work include Backward Course Design and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
The CITL offers IUB faculty multiple opportunities to develop a new course or revise an existing course through various Course Development Institutes. All Institutes are highly active, multi-day events that utilize peer groups to help facilitate the process. If you have plans to develop or revise a course, you may want to consider applying to participate in the Institute that best fits your needs. These are all offered free of charge for instructors of any rank, from any discipline or department at IUB:
The Foundational Course Development Institute meets for five 3-hour morning sessions over one week to implement a backward design and UDL approach to develop a new course or revise an existing course. By the end of the Institute, participants can expect to have determined learning outcomes for their students and outlined a major final assignment (or exam) that gathers evidence about the extent to which students have achieved those outcomes. They will also have the opportunity to lay out a basic calendar for the course they are developing and to map out and align assignments and grading strategies that motivate students toward the learning outcomes they have delineated.
Recommended for faculty who are new to these approaches or would like the accountability and structure of guided course design.
The Online Course Development Institute (OCDI) helps instructors design, develop, and learn how to teach an online course. Participants meet in person for five 4-hour sessions over a 5-day period in May, then complete asynchronous activities online over the summer to help them develop further skills and become comfortable interacting and teaching in the online environment. By the end of the institute, participants will have a plan in place for developing and teaching their course, be able to apply quality standards to review and improve online and hybrid courses, and be able to use backward design principles in all their courses and lessons.
The Global Community-Engaged Course Development Institute helps instructors design and develop new, high quality community-engaged learning courses with a global learning focus. The goal of this Institute is to prepare educators to teach community-engaged courses with global/international perspectives. Applicants will join in three stages of course development from May to August, starting with a 3-day virtual workshop where participants will explore the theory and practice of community-engaged learning and global learning. By the end of the institute, participants will have a plan in place for developing and teaching their course.
This institute is a partnership between the CITL Service-Learning Program (SLP) and The Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies Center for the Study of Global Change.
