The Content Revolution
Michael Feldstein,
eLiterate,
Sept 12, 2019
I must confess I am hard-pressed to find the difference between 'backward design' as described here and attributed to Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. and the model presented by Shirley Chapman in the Introduction to Instruction course we designed at Assiniboine in 1996. Chapman's course wan't particularly remarkable; the principles she outlined were standard for distance learning as they had been developed over the preceding decades. The idea of designing 'backwards' - beginning with the learning objective, creating authentic experiences, and testing for outcomes - has been standard procedure ever since the domain of online learning has existed. Maybe I'm missing something. It wouldn't be the first time. Maybe it's the difference between coming from a distance education background and a traditional university. I don't know. But here we have the two accounts, and you can compare them directly for yourself.
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