Course Design: A Visual and Modular Approach

A thorough guide to course design.

This book has been designed for instructors in higher education or adult training who wish to develop a new course or revise an existing one. It adopts a practical, visual, and modular approach based on the principle of constructive alignment. At its heart is the canvas, a document containing all the major aspects of a course.

With its three-step approach and solid theoretical basis, Course Design encourages instructors to engage in a reflective practice that will allow them to define their vision of teaching, design or revise a course, and develop their teaching skills.

A neuropsychologist by training, Jacques Lanarès was vice-rector of the University of Lausanne from 2006 to 2016. He was president of the Quality Network for Swiss Universities and the Quality Delegation at the Conference of Rectors.
 

Lecturer and research affiliate at the College of Humanities at EPFL, Marc Laperrouza explores different teaching formats with a particular interest in interdisciplinarity, project-based learning, and fieldwork.

Emmanuel Sylvestre worked as a pedagogical advisor at the University of Lyon I before joining the Teaching Support Center at the University of Lausanne, which he has directed since 2012.