Join a group of peers and TAP facilitators to discuss strategies for course design and teaching that focus on enhancing student learning.
Bring an existing course or your ideas for designing a new one. You will leave this workshop with new insights about teaching and a draft Course Plan.
Tuesday May 12 and Thursday May 14, Adams 211
Registration is now closed.
You can access our course design offerings in three different formats:
A self-paced option in myCourses, a fast-track online series, and a two-day in-person workshop.
You can access our course design offerings in three different formats:
The offering you decide to attend might depend on the date by which you need to design your course, the amount of time you have available, and the amount of support you need. You can find a comparison of the three offerings in this table.
Absolutely! We invite you to take part in a course design offering each time you (re)design a course.
A Course Alignment Plan (CAP) is a template designed to help you map out your course so that you have a guide for continuing your course design. Once you have filled it in, the CAP provides an overview of the alignment among course learning outcomes, assessments, and teaching strategies. A CAP is the main output of Just-in-Time Course Design and Course Design Essentials.
A Course Plan is a more in-depth planning document that you create to help develop your course outline. A Course Plan is the main output of the Course Design Workshop.
Course design is most valuable when the principles and strategies can be applied.
For the Course Design Workshop, it is essential that you identify a specific course to work on during the workshop.
For our other (self-paced and online) offerings, it is recommended you work on designing a specific course, but it is not required.
Our course design offerings are designed for instructors. Teaching assistants can take part in our TA training at the beginning of each term.
Sorry, no. Our course design offerings are designed for McGill instructors teaching courses for McGill students.
Resources are freely available in the Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base for those who wish to learn more about learning-centered approaches to teaching.
McGill instructors can request a consultation for additional support related to teaching and learning at McGill.
McGill University is on land which has served and continues to serve as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. Teaching and Academic Programs acknowledges and thanks the diverse Indigenous peoples whose footsteps mark this territory on which peoples of the world now gather. This land acknowledgement is shared as a starting point to provide context for further learning and action. We invite you to join us in our continuous learning of Indigenous pedagogy.
