Instructional Materials Development Course guidebook

The Instructional Materials Development course is designed for teams (2-3 individuals) of faculty/staff and graduate/postdoctoral students to develop instructional materials for existing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) undergraduate courses. This existing course will provide the context and focus for the materials. Each team will identify an important learning objective that students have difficulty achieving in the existing course, then develop a hypothesis about the source of the problem, design instructional materials and ways to implement them that address the problem in an inclusive way, and design an assessment plan. At each step the process will be grounded in the foundational knowledge that exists in the disciplinary and educational literature.

The course format will be interactive and collaborative. The teams will benefit from the creativity, experience, and knowledge of others in the course. One aim is to promote a multifaceted team, based on the research model, in which complex questions are addressed together, individual strengths are respected and nurtured, and everyone works and learns cooperatively. Because of the collaborative nature of the course, all members of the teams are expected to commit two hours per week in class or in subgroups.

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