course design
Course Planning Resources
Course planning means different things to different people. Here, you can match your needs to our resources. No matter what... ... Read More
Creating an Engaging Syllabus
From Syllabus to Student Engagement What if a professor created syllabus that more accurately communicated their passion for their subject... ... Read More
Adapting Your Course to a New Format by Exploring Ideals
Taking an existing course and transforming it into a new format–for example, converting an in-person course to hybrid or online,... ... Read More
Understanding and Estimating Instructional Time and Homework
Introduction What counts as “class time” — especially when you are adapting a course to a new format like hybrid... ... Read More
Dee Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning
Dee Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning is an essential model for faculty to consider as they design their courses and... ... Read More
Champlain Syllabus Resources for Faculty
The following items are intended to help you create your class syllabus. If you have further questions, please feel free... ... Read More
Curriculum Development
There are three big-picture steps that any faculty member developing a new course or program should do in consultation with... ... Read More
Canvas Templates
Canvas Templates The CLT has prepared basic Canvas templates you can add to your course(s) to help you set up... ... Read More
Flex-Hybrid Teaching
Flex-Hybrid was the course model for the 2020-2021 academic year. It is not currently an option for regular Champlain courses.... ... Read More
Flipped Learning
What Is “Flipped” Learning? Flipped learning means inverting the traditional model of what happens in and out of the classroom,... ... Read More
Backward Design
Backward Design is an outcomes-centered and learner-focused process for designing (or redesigning) a course. In Backward Design, you work through... ... Read More
Teaching Strategies Overview
This article is intended to help you explore four key aspects of teaching: activating prior knowledge, teaching new content, developing... ... Read More