Recently, I've been talking at conferences and campuses about intentional course design - the kind of course design that taps into our passions and reminds us why we love teaching. Any good course...
How do you feel when it's time to talk about or write your course learning outcomes? Do you feel excited? Energized and ready to pull out a list of measurable learning outcome verbs? Or, do you take...
One of the best parts of teaching a course about course design is seeing faculty view prior teaching "challenges" as exciting new opportunities. In Significant Learning by Design, based on Dee...
Download our list of learning outcome verbs that align with Dee Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning. Fink Taxonomy Verb ListDownload A word of caution about using verbs as a magical...
Many college educators are familiar with Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain. This well-known categorization of learning, developed by a team of scholars but often attributed to the first...
Dee Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning has led thousands of college instructors to reimagine their courses and articulate what they truly hope for their students. This taxonomy goes beyond the...
You may be familiar with the Big Rocks analogy. It goes like this...let's pretend we are trying to fit big rocks, little rocks, and sand into a jar. If we start with the sand, then the little rocks,...