Tag: Course Design

Is a Quality Matters+ Course Review Right for You?

November 16, 2022 by Cheri Madewell

Discover the best path for an online course review through Quality Matters+ at Ball State. Revising or creating a new course is a laborious process. While higher education institutions around the globe transitioned to emergency remote teaching in 2020, building an effective online course for our learners requires strategic planning and thoughtful user experience design. […]

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Leveraging User Personas for Course Design

November 9, 2022 by Shane Lanning (they/them)

Learn how a tool from user experience design can help inform student-centered and empathetic course design. User personas are a tool for user experience design to help make products with the specific users at the center. While I’m not advocating for a view of higher education that sees students as consumers and courses as products, […]

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Toward Mobile-First Teaching Practices

October 3, 2022 by Eva Grouling Snider

Explore how the web design practice of “Mobile First” can be applied to course design to create mobile-friendly courses. Before we start, a quick warning. I’m going to assume that you value creating a good learning environment for all your students. Your students are using smartphones all the time, and that includes interacting with your […]

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Using Canvas to Help Students Manage Their Work

October 3, 2022 by Eva Grouling Snider

Help students manage the course workload in your class with Canvas features by reducing the need for reminders and making important steps more visible. The demands on university students are extraordinarily high. Our students manage demanding course workloads, high-grade expectations, and career readiness tasks in the classroom. Yet, the expectations do not stop there. Students […]

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Saving Your Students Money with Open Educational Resources

September 26, 2022 by Dan Jones

Learn how the author adapted an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook for a course, including the unexpected benefits he discovered. When you get the news from your department that a course you teach is switching textbooks, the first question that likely pops into your head is “Why?” If the answer is that the new textbook […]

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