Teaching Onboarding: Getting Started with Evidenced-Based Course Design & Teaching
Review our series of evidence-based resources to support the design and teaching of learner-centered courses at UofL in all course modalities. Below you will find:
- A UofL Teaching Onboarding Checklist to help get you started
- Self-paced online modules you can access at any time to help you navigating teaching at UofL
- Course design, teaching and grading resources
Teaching Onboarding Checklist
Review our updated checklist of resources and information to set you up for teaching at UofL.
Self-Paced Modules
These “how-to” online modules walk you through foundational strategies for designing, teaching and improving courses in any modality. These are the same modules that are integrated into the Teaching Onboarding Online Course, but available to anyone at any time.
Get Started with Course Design & Teaching
The following resources provide you with some great, easy-to-digest strategies that promote good course design and teaching. Note that many also provide examples so that you can get a sense of how other instructors’ have integrated these strategies into their practice.
- How to Create a Syllabus | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Foundations of Course Design | Teaching Commons, Stanford University
- Designing an Online Class | UofL Delphi Center
- Transparent Assignment Design Template and Checklist | Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TiLT)
- Best Practices for Designing and Grading Exams | CRLT
- Assignment Design | Teaching Commons, DePaul University, Chicago.
- Resources for Generative AI and Teaching | UofL Delphi Center
- Planning a Class | Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo
- Strategies for Effective Lesson Planning | CRLT, University of Michigan
- Sample Lesson Plans | CRLT, University of Michigan
- Active Learning at UofL | UofL Delphi Center
- Getting Started with Active Learning Techniques | Center for Teaching Innovation, Cornell University
- Engaging Students in Active Learning Asynchronously – Teaching@Tufts, Tufts University
- Actively Engaging Students in Asynchronous Online Classes | IDEA.
- Intentional Technologies | Agile Learning
- Learning Technology Tools | UofL Delphi Center
- Recording/Posting Grades in Blackboard | UofL Delphi Center
- Grading and Performance Rubrics | Eberly Center, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ten Tips for More Efficient and Effective Grading | Faculty Focus
- Consistent and Effective Grading | Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary
- Assigning a Valid and Reliable Grade in a Course | IDEA
- Feedback on Teaching | Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University
- Gathering Mid-semester Feedback: Three Variations to Improve Instruction | IDEA.