DESIGNING A COURSE

Students from Tufts' Fletcher School's Global Master of Arts Program (GMAP) program during their residency. (Caitlin Cunningham/Tufts University)
Students from Tufts’ Fletcher School’s Global Master of Arts Program (GMAP) program during their residency. (Caitlin Cunningham/Tufts University)

Course design involves discovering your own teaching philosophy, shaping learning goals and objectives, applying core learning principles to your design, and working with available technologies.

CELT’s Canvas Course Design Tutorial  guides you through the process of designing a new course or revising an existing course with a lens of inclusive, learner-centered teaching at Tufts. 

The resources below can also help you get started –

Articulating Your Teaching Philosophy

Setting Goals and Objectives: Backwards Course Design

Applying Learning Principles to Course Design

Course Design with Canvas

Team Teaching

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