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Reap the benefits of peer assessment of activities able in the Faculty Guidebook, there is much scholarship
before implementation (Step 16) to support the course design process; numerous articles are
also shown in Table 1.
Enable performance in the course to be constantly
improved through the design and implementation of While courses are usually designed for a specific context,
a course assessment system (Step 19) foundations and capstone courses are transferable across
disciplines. The design of processes for each of these are
Meet any evaluation-based needs (grading and discussed in additional modules: Designing a Foundations
grades) through the design and implementation of a Course (Newgren, 2007) and Creating a Capstone Course
course evaluation system (Step 20) (El-Sayed & Beyerlein, 2007).Astrong example of a course
design document generated through the application of the
Trigger creation of a course syllabus (presentation Course Design Methodology is available for Foundations
of selected aspects of the course design to students) of Learning (4th ed.) (Redfield & Hurley Lawrence, 2009)
(Step 21) at www.pcrest2.com/fol4/cd.htm
The Course Design Handbook (Apple, Krumsieg & Lessons are still being learned about how to strengthen
Beyerlein, 2006) provides an example of each of the steps each of these steps to improve course quality in order to
as well as a presentation model of an activities table. make possible both increased learning as well as stronger
evidence of that learning. Additionally, many of the steps
Scholarship on Course Design in the Course Design Methodology have become the focus
of research in their own right, especially transformational
Section 2.4 of the Faculty Guidebook is titled, “Instruc- learning, learning outcomes, performance criteria, learn-
tional Design” and between the modules in this section ing activities, learning skills, performance measures, as-
and modules elsewhere in the book, there are many that sessment systems, and methodologies.
further support or advance the course design process (Bey-
erlein, Holmes & Apple, 2007). These are correlated with
steps in the CDM in Table 1. In addition to what is avail-
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