Dee Fink & Associates have created an online short-course that will allow teachers anywhere in the world to learn how to design courses for greater student engagement and better student learning.
Online Short-Course on “Designing Courses for Significant Learning“
The course is called “Designing Courses for Significant Learning” and is intended to help teachers learn how to use Fink’s principles of Integrated Course design.
How It Will Operate: Participants will take the course in groups of 5-8 people; each group will have a trained Feedback Facilitator. Expected outcomes: By the end of the course, participants (a) will have completed the design of one course and (b) will know how to design any course using the principles of Integrated Course Design.
The course has 14 units and is intended to last 10-12 weeks. There are 3 start times for new sections: early September, early January, and early August.
Special Track for Designing Online or Hybrid Courses: People who want to design an online or hybrid course will enroll in this same course. However, 7 of the units have separate content that relate specifically to designing courses in an online or hybrid environment.
Two Certificates: Participants in either the regular track or the online/hybrid track can earn two certificates from this course.
- The “Certificate of Completion” will be awarded to everyone who finishes the 14 units in the course.
- The “Certificate of Performance” will awarded to anyone whose final course design meets the “6 Standards of Excellence” for good course design. This second certificate verifies that they have not only learned about course design, but that they can do it.
Cost: The cost of this short course has been set at different levels for teachers from different countries. This has been done to allow for variations in the average salaries of teachers in different countries. For more specific information on costs, see the webpage shown immediately below.
For Further Information: You can find further information about this general course at the following webpage: http://www.deefinkandassociates.com/index.php/onlinecourse/
If you have specific questions about either of these online courses, contact Dee Fink: dfink40@gmail.com