Designing Effective Teaching and Significant Learning

Designing courses to deliver effective teaching and significant learning is the best way to set students up for success, and this book guides readers through the process. The authors have worked with faculty world-wide, and share the stories of how faculty have transformed courses from theory to practice. They start with Dee Fink’s foundation of integrating course design. Then they provide additional design concepts to expand the course blueprint to implement plans for communication, accessibility, technology integration, as well as the assessment of course design as it fits into the assessment of programs and institutions, and how faculty can use what they learn to meet their professional goals.

ZalaFashant isa retired dean, faculty, and assistant director of the Minnesota State Collegesand Universities system Center for Teaching and Learning.

Linda Russell is the former Center for Teaching and Learningdirector at and retired coordinator of the Minneapolis Community and TechnicalCollege Learning Center.

StewartRoss isprofessor emeritus and founding director of the Center for Excellence inTeaching and Learning at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

JakeJacobson isthe retired chair of and an instructor in the graphic design/web and mediadepartment and former Center for Teaching and Learning director at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College.

Karen LaPlant is a retired instructor of business andinformation technology and former Center for Teaching and Learning director atHennepin Technical College.