After this course participants will be able to…

• describe principles for and approaches to sequencing courses.
• apply these principles and approaches to their course planning.
• effectively align assignments with course content to support student learning.
• integrate more flexibility into their course structures.

A well-sequenced course helps students learn and stay motivated throughout the semester. It can offer a supporting structure for students to achieve the intended learning outcomes through a meaningful succession of content and assignments that keep them engaged and the workload challenging, yet manageable.

We will start off the workshop by discussing various principles available to sequence course content, some of which you probably use in your teaching already (for example, chronological order, around case studies, moving from theory to application, etc.). In a next step, we will explore ways to integrate assignments that help students to acquire and solidify the knowledge and/or skills according to your course’s learning outcomes.

Practical work on a course of your choice will be central to this workshop. You will reflect on your current course sequencing practice, its advantages and perhaps downsides, and apply a different sequencing principle to design an alternative course structure. You will have a week between face-to-face meetings for re-designing your existing course or initial ideas.

• Brief input sequences by the workshop facilitator
• Plenary and small group discussions
• Re-designing one of your courses

This course is planned as face-to-face class.

Total Workload: 7h (2 x 3 hours in the course + re-designing your existing courses)