At the Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) at CU Boulder, we provide comprehensive support for course design and development to help educators create engaging, inclusive, and effective learning ...

What Is a Curricular Alignment? Curricular alignment is the process of aligning a program’s curriculum with its goals. It is a part of a high-level backwards design approach to the design of an entire ...

Have you ever been excited to learn about a particular topic, only to attend the session and find yourself disappointed? Perhaps the material was overwhelming or lacked alignment with the outlined ...

The Instructional Design and Development (IDD) team collaborates with instructors and staff to imagine, design, and realize ideas that transform and enhance the learning experience. The Course ...

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) is the systematic inquiry into student learning and teaching practices in higher education (Hutchings, P., & Shulman, L. S., 1999). Action research is ...

What makes for a “good” curriculum? It’s a simple question with no easy answer. Depending on who’s providing the definition, a good curriculum could mean one that aligns with state standards, or one ...

Scaffolding is an instructional practice where a teacher gradually removes guidance and support as students learn and become more competent. Support can be for content, processes, and learning ...

Case Inquiry (IQ) teams are small student-centered learning groups of 8-9 students and a faculty facilitator. Many of the faculty who serve as facilitators feel that this is one of the best teaching ...

I agree with Thomas Guskey that it is time to end the debate between obedience and critical thinking in education (“Should Curriculum Teach Students to Obey or to Improve Society?, ” April 24, 2023).

Dental education is undergoing significant transformation as institutions worldwide endeavour to reform curricula to meet contemporary clinical, ethical, and interdisciplinary demands. The development ...

Education is a social process through which societies preserve their identity and ensure continuity across generations ...