Design

Kent State Online Design Build Teach

The Design training pathway provides foundational knowledge and best practices for designing fully online courses. The courses in this pathway explore topics such as the Backward Design process, learning outcomes, selecting learning materials, developing an assessment plan, and structuring course content so that the learning experience is consistent, organized, and appropriately sequenced. The design process will provide you with a guide that you can use to build your fully online course in the Canvas learning management system later. 

Courses

  • Introduction to Backward Design

    Introduction to Backward Design

    Explore the framework that focuses on learning goals as the foundation for course design. Learn how to create specific, measurable outcomes and discover the importance of alignment.

  • Creating an Assessment Plan

    Creating an Assessment Plan

    Identify methods and types of assessment you can use to measure achievement of course learning objectives while considering various assessment types, templates, and grading criteria.

  • Curating Content

    Curating Content

    Select learning materials, such as readings, videos, handouts, web resources, etc., that students will need to succeed on course assessments while keeping alignment and other considerations (copyright, rigor) in mind.  

  • Organizing Your Course

    Organizing Your Course

    Create a learning path for your students by structuring your course into specific units, or “modules,” considering length, sequence, module-specific outcomes, introductions, and summaries.