I attended a course design workshop this week (5 days all day) and it’s been a fantastic experience. The goal was to set up a framework of an existing or new course; defining course goal and content and breaking it down into different learning objectives. Starting off with a graphical course map I laid out a Quality Assurance Course including the requirements by the Ordre des chimistes du Quebec.
The workshop was extremely well facilitated with inputs ranging from assessment design, Bloom’s taxonomy on learning to “Generation Me” presentations – the latter by a Concordia student counsellor and psychologist. Feedback and sharing ideas, examples of best practice as well as some of our frustrations among participants made it an extremely pleasant experience. It was hard work, but I now have a clear idea, where this course is going with lots of ideas about student participation, assessment criteria, learning objectives,…
Best of all – I have finally begun to close the gap between my previous work as a trainer outside university and inside university; adult learning is a single concept after all!