Backward Design for Instruction

07 Apr 2010 | Notes | Contributor(s): Krishna P. C. Madhavan, Sean Brophy

Backward design is an instructional design process that focuses on what specific learning objectives need to be accomplished and how learning will be assessed appropriately before the instructional …

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How People Learn 101: Theory and Practice

07 Apr 2010 | Notes | Contributor(s): Krishna P. C. Madhavan, Sean Brophy

One of the primary goals of the NCN Education and Assessment Group is to allow insights from engineering education research to diffuse into the engineering curricula. This resource is designed to …

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Thinking about Learning Objectives

07 Apr 2010 | Notes | Contributor(s): Krishna P. C. Madhavan

The first and most significant step in the backward design process is the identification of clear learning objectives that will eventually be assessed. Using New Bloom's Taxonomy as the theoretical …

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