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Our entire educational experience prepares us to teach, or does it?  From our first day of college, we experience anticipatory socialization before we enter our profession.  We learn about the roles of teachers, instructors, and faculty; we learn about schools and colleges.  We may even take courses on education, teaching and learning, or pedagogy.  As newcomers to our role, we rely on predispositions, past experiences, and the interpretation of others to inform our instructional practices.  Eventually, we go through a metamorphosis where we have learned the attitudes and behaviors of old.  Yet, too often, these instincts that we have developed may be misinformed.  Some of us develop this angst about our role.  Is this working?  How do I know?  How can I improve it?  Moreover, many of us fear change and the novelty of new practices and technologies in our classrooms.   

Dr. Joosten will share considerations in moving from instinct to intentionality in rethinking your instructional practices in your courses from onsite to online based on research in the field and at the National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements.  

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In this session, hear how private K-12 school Oaks Christian School is using Coursetune to align their online and face-to-face teaching and create a culture of continuous improvement with their faculty.

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In this session, hear the latest research about the instructor’s social presence and see how to integrate it into Coursetune.

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Planetary Panel: Speaking the Same Language: Diverse Perspectives on Educator Training
Audrey Perry, DNP, CNM, CNE, Course & Curriculum Design Coach, Frontier Nursing University
Lauren Travis, Dean of Instruction, Oaks Christian Online
Stephanie Niednagel, Director of Curriculum, Oaks Christian School
Torie Wynn, Learning Content and Technology Manager, Academic Partnerships

Host- Jonathan Cisco, Partner Success Director, Coursetune

In this session, Jeffrey Starr shares how Relay is leveraging the outcome mapping feature to map the standards they need for all the different education state standards. Also, learn about the framework that has been developed for faculty course revisions and how Relay is using the Tuning tool for collaboration.

Link to Relay’s Framework

In this session, see how the University of Georgia’s VetMed program is being built out using Coursetune’s unique features that help visualize the instructional design of a program and the outcomes. Hear how tools like tuning, learning scales, and mapping are being used to improve the quality of the curriculum.

In this session, learn how Frontier Nursing University is changing their culture and shifting the discourse around curriculum design using Coursetune.

In this session, learn how Coursetune can be incorporated into professional development conversations to improve clarity, consistency, and engagement.

In this discussion, learn how Fort Hays used Coursetune to develop their social work program from the ground up. Along the way, they found using Coursetune created more collaboration, curricular aha’s, and insights into the program design and student experience.

In this session, you’ll hear how MoFo uses Coursetune to rethink its legal education models and deliver a consistent and competency-based curriculum to its employees.

Tuesday, June 7th 9am PT/12pm ET – Disciplines and Course Archetypes

Activities and Assessments

In this fourth session, we cover Activities and Assessments:
-Review how the course elements align.
-Connect learning scales, learning objectives, and activity and assessment design.
-Match activity types to learning objectives.
-Use Bloom’s to determine assessment level.
-Discuss RAFT framework.
-Practice using RAFT to create activities and assessments.

Tuesday, May 3rd 9amPT/12pm ET- Learning Objective Scales

Tuesday, April 19th 9amPT/12pm ET- Learning Objectives

Tuesday, April 5th 9amPT/12pm ET- Session 1: Course Objectives

New to course design? You don’t have to be an expert to get started using Coursetune because Coursetune can help you learn as you go. This Spring Training series of webinars will provide evidence-based instruction for designing a balanced course with diverse assessments for all course disciplines. Maria Andersen Ph.D., General Manager at Coursetune, and Jonathan Cisco Ph.D., Partner Success Director at Coursetune, will facilitate these sessions with ample practice time to support reflection and growth.

We’re thrilled to add a new feature in Coursetune 2.02 – Outcome Scales. With this functionality, you’ll be able to advance your instructional design by tracking progress toward curriculum goals or adding labelling scales. In this video, you’ll learn who should use this, the benefits, and see a full tutorial on implementing the new scales.

How can a tool bring teams together to create alignment? Andrew and Linda will share how they used Coursetune to work collaboratively for program design with the unique ability to visualize their curriculum.

The teaching and learning team from The Galloway School join us for an exploration of what worked for them and advice they want to transmit for others who are starting their alignment journey.

What can a faculty member gain from course design tools? Michele Pistone’s journey from educator to curricunaut opened her eyes to what her students were experiencing in her course. Learn about her transformation and see how she’s used her curriculum to make an impact in immigration policy.

Hear how faculty member and CourseTune Admin, Colleen created a grassroots movement to improve course designs and program quality by sharing her powerful story of curriculum design on campus

Terri Givens, author of Radical Empathy – Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides and the CEO and Founder of Brighter Higher Ed, is a visionary leader in higher education. One of her main goals is to improve access and opportunities for students through the effective use of educational technology. She’ll be discussing the crucial connection between learning objectives in a curriculum and the role of empathy as we collectively face new frontiers in education. Here’s the reading guide to her book.

Join Sandra as she shares her journey with Coursetune as a faculty member with a new tool. Sandra organized course goals, learning objectives, and assessments to align for improving student engagement and assessment strategy.

Imagine a place where you can see what inclusion and access looks like across your curriculum. Georgetown’s team will share how they’ve used Coursetune to redesign their MOOCs to enable learners with the ability to explore their own habits of learning.

Many schools have just joined the ranks of online learning delivery, but some have been doing it for years. Join Stephanie and Lauren as they share the unique challenge they had using a fully developed online program and aligning it back to the classroom experience, so that students had a consistent learning experience.

There’s a lot of training involved in getting a pilot prepared to take flight. Michael Hower has been using Coursetune to design the curriculum, so that each pilot has the knowledge and skills they need for the demands of the US Air Force. Join us to hear how he’s now using the curriculum maps to level up his team’s instructional design knowledge.

Learn how using Courseplan’s advanced visualizations, Grant targeted skills gaps to create a learner-centric curriculum for workforce development. He’ll share how he was able to innovate on the course using the unique tools. This session also includes Grant’s use of Variations to make several courses out of one base course.

Panel Discussion: empathy and the role of instructional design with K-12 and Higher-ed representatives.

What does it look like to build peace officer training with a focus on creating a 360-degree approach to cadet skills? John Jacobs will share how the Utah Department of Public Safety is using Coursetune to redesign the competencies that cadets need for today’s world.

Panel discussion at Coursetune Camp 2021, moderated by Diane Weaver.

Imagine a place where you can see what inclusion and access looks like across your curriculum. Georgetown’s team will share how they’ve used Coursetune to redesign their MOOCs to enable learners with the ability to explore their own habits of learning.

Drawing on her experience building training for corporate professionals, Julie will discuss the course design best practices for building workforce skill courses in academia. Julie is a swiss-army knife of education knowledge and skills and author of Design for How People Learn.

Closing the critical thinking gap in education has never been more important. Join math teacher-turned-attorney Colin Seale, the Founder and CEO of thinkLaw and author of Thinking Like a Lawyer: A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students, for an interactive workshop that will give you powerful, but practical skills to incorporate critical thinking into digital learning by giving learners experiences to help them lead, innovate, and break the things that must be broken.

Get practical advice about course structure and content for courses that teach foundational knowledge from someone that has designed dozens of them, in multiple subject areas, for multiple institutions. Learn to balance course objectives with engaging material. Erin Czerwinski is an experienced curriculum developer and learning engineer. Erin currently works as the Manager, Learning Engineering and TEL Product for Carnegie Mellon University’s Simon Initiative and Open Learning Initiative.

Learn how a language teacher designs courses with tons of vocabulary to be learned and then apply these techniques to other information-dense disciplines. Marsh is a teacher and researcher of the German language, specializing in language pedagogy, second language acquisition, and critical applied linguistics.

Maria Andersen reviews best practices for connecting course objectives to program goals. This might be called many things in different environments, but the concept is the same. Learn how to align course goals to program outcomes.
In Coursetune, this work can be accomplished by looking at CLOs (course learning objectives) and PLOs (program-level outcomes).

Maria Andersen shares best practices for writing course learning objectives. These may also be called core outcomes, course goals, or competencies. In Coursetune and Courseplan, you can design your courses with the end in mind for the students, by starting with your course learning objectives.

Learning scales, like Bloom’s taxonomy, help classify learning objectives for students and are used to structure a course’s progression. In this workshop, Maria will introduce ESIL, an additional tool to assess the depth of learning a student needs to reach. ESIL is used to build lifelong learning in the age of information abundance and technology access.

Martha Masters presents Skill Maturity: Unpacking Pedagogical Approaches to Maximum Student Success. Join us for a close look at designing a course that increases a student’s skill maturity. Masters shares her experience designing courses to increase skill maturity from her perspective as a guitar instructor from Loyola Marymount University and California State University Fullerton. Martha is the president of the Guitar Foundation of America, has published three books, and has released seven recordings.

Coursetune Inc presents A Course Unboxing for Colleen M. Culley, PharmD, BCPS, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh. This is the first look at her course after Coursetune imported her curriculum documents. We love these moments when faculty members see opportunities and have A-ha! moments when seeing their course for the first time.

Too many credit hours? Too many readings to do? Curriculum drift and curriculum bloat are common issues that happen over time. Maria Andersen describes how to audit your course and revise it to be more streamlined and aligned. This is a clip from Course Planning is the Key to Success in Every Digital Modality for The Distance Education Accrediting Commission.

Maria Andersen describes the way to move past “one-size-fits-all” assessments to truly engage students in meaningful assessments. She introduces the Coursetune visualization of activities and assessments to be able to see the full view of alignment to objectives. This is a clip from Course Planning is the Key to Success in Every Digital Modality for The Distance Education Accrediting Commission.

Students need transparency about what they will learn, how they will learn it, and how they will be assessed. In this clip, Maria Andersen talks about the best practices for designing assessments. This clip is from Course Planning is the Key to Success in Every Digital Modality for The Distance Education Accrediting Commission.

Maria Andersen explains how to use Coursetune to see what an aligned course looks like. She shows how to connect learning objectives with activities and assessments. This clip is from Course Planning is the Key to Success in Every Digital Modality for The Distance Education Accrediting Commission.

Maria Andersen explains how different modalities- from asynchronous online to synchronous in-person- all share a common “course DNA.” She introduces the concept of a course nucleus and describes how it is applied in each modality change. This clip is from Course Planning is the Key to Success in Every Digital Modality for The Distance Education Accrediting Commission.

Our brains are pattern-seeking machines that thrive on stories. Learn why storytelling matters to get buy-in for transformational change, how to unite a team around a common narrative, and what to look out for when stories go bad.

Remote teaching and learning can be every bit as effective and rewarding as in-person experiences. Learn strategies and tips that can make all the difference for you and your students.

How does the human brain learn? In this session, we will examine cognitive learning theory strategies & principles. Then we will review how those theories influence instructional design to optimize learning.

Interleaving concepts is an important instructional design best practice. Not only can you see your learning objectives and the depth of knowledge in Coursetune; you can also see the relationship between your course level outcomes and your specific modules. So that you can see when students first encounter each concept and how often throughout the duration of the course. Turn on your activities and assessments and zoom out to complete the picture.

Quality Matters and Coursetune Inc have teamed up to make it easy to build quality online courses. QM has the rubric and Coursetune has the tools. Follow this to see how Coursetune and Courseplan align with the QM standards.

Curriculum “drift and bloat” often results in courses feeling too full and faculty overwhelmed by the amount of content they are expected to cover. One of the things Coursetune offers clients is the ability to dive into their curriculum and work with it in a meaningful way. The ability to see the entire curriculum in one view provides institutions with a unique sorting system that helps them determine what should stay and what should go. Managing curriculum drift and bloat is one way we can work towards getting the curriculum right.

Suppose you suddenly have to teach from home for several weeks. Or rather, several students are suddenly quarantined at home and cannot attend class. Shifting to remote teaching can be easier with the tips you’ll learn in this session. In fact, you might even find that teaching remotely has some pedagogies that are near impossible to adopt in a face-to-face classroom. Our CEO, Maria Andersen, has been using remote teaching and synchronous online teaching for a decade, and will share some tips and best practices for making your remote classes run smoothly.

What were you looking for before you found Coursetune? What was it like seeing Coursetune for the first time?

If you are planning a road trip, you must first have a destination and then you must plan the route. The same principle applies when teaching a class. Course mapping allows one to plan the route using course goals, lesson objectives, and lesson plans. Completing a course map first will simplify designing the Canvas site. In this session, participants will learn through an existing course map designed by the presenter. Each step in the process will be presented to demonstrate how course mapping works.

Dr. Maria Andersen, CEO, Coursetune shares how designing curriculum can improve student outcomes. Instructional design best practices can significantly improve course and program curriculum quality for a better learning experience. We believe that if you can get the curriculum right, relevant, and in the right context for students that students tend to be more engaged and learn better. This is not the easiest thing to do in education.

Dr. Maria Andersen, CEO, Coursetune discusses the impetus behind the tuning features built into Coursetune that allow faculty to participate in the continuous improvement process of courses. Her experiences in education shed light on a need to give agency back to the instructors who are teaching these courses and provide them with a platform to interact and collaborate with other members of faculty involved in the course design.

Dr. Maria Andersen, CEO, Coursetune, examines how Coursetune’s graphical interface helps guide users to write, place and balance learning objectives. This unique feature of Coursetune not only helps create a more solid curriculum, but also helps users learn more about curriculum design all from the interface.

A building without a solid foundation will always require a lot of maintenance, time, and energy to repair. The same principle applies with curriculum. In this video, Dr. Maria Andersen, CEO, Coursetune delves into the ways in which Coursetune helps institutions create a blueprint for curriculum that is solid from the course and learning objectives perspective and the support this foundation provides later when completing the course design.

Dr. Maria Andersen, CEO, Coursetune, explains how one button reporting in Coursetune can really help institutions with things like accreditation and program reviews. No wonder administrators tend to love Coursetune.

Suppose you suddenly have to teach from home for several weeks. Or rather, several students are suddenly quarantined at home and cannot attend class. Shifting to remote teaching can be easier with the tips you’ll learn in this session. In fact, you might even find that teaching remotely has some pedagogies that are near impossible to adopt in a face-to-face classroom. Our CEO, Maria Andersen, has been using remote teaching and synchronous online teaching for a decade, and will share some tips and best practices for making your remote classes run smoothly.

In this video, Dr. Maria Andersen, CEO, Coursetune, shares the story and inspiration behind the creation of Coursetune. After years of experience with educational technology that failed to deliver and a desire to have good software that actually solved problems, Dr. Andersen and her co-founders went about finding a solution to help build curriculum.

Shifting modalities and an uncertain future? Be confident in your curriculum design with Coursetune.

Discussion boards have been utilized for online learning for decades, but are we using them as effectively and efficiently as we can? Do you worry that your discussion boards feel more like busy work than a community of learning? You might notice students are just going through the motions: posting questions and completing tasks for points.

In this webinar, you’ll learn best practices for creating engaging discussion board assignments and inspiring more dynamic and meaningful online learning experiences. We’ll also go over best practices for creating rubrics and grading your discussion board assignments based on what they are learning.

Looking to improve student recruitment and student retention? Diane Weaver explains the possibilities of having a dynamic, visual, curriculum mapping tool that is collaborative and designed for student-centered learning.

Dr. Maria Andersen, CEO, Coursetune, talks about a tool built into Coursetune that ensures every course activity is deliberate and purposeful. Watch this video to learn more about how Coursetune promotes intentional teaching. Hear why Coursetune requires a connection between the learning objective and the activities.

Training has a satisfactory set of options if your goal is information delivery or procedural training, but what about creating meaningful training for complex skill development or for the not-so-procedural problems that show up more and more in the workplace? What about creating learning for those situations where your SME can’t tell you what good performance looks like, except to say, “Well you know it when you see it”?

Frameworks from complexity science and the science of expertise development can help you diagnose these kinds of complex learning problems, and can help point to eLearning design strategies that can actually address and support complex skill development. You will learn how variables like frequency of use, tacitness or explicitness, and level of automaticity affect skill development. This session will address assessment strategies for complex learning as well.

Coursetune Camp 2019 online design panel featuring (by alpha) Kelvin Bentley, Tyton Partners, Laurie Pulido, Ease Learning, Yianna Vovides, Georgetown University, Danna Wren, Mizzou (University of Missouri). Facilitated by Maria Andersen, Coursetune CEO

Coursetune Camp 2019 Faculty Engagement Panel featuring (by alpha) Janette Isaacson, OIT,
Grant Kirby, OIT, George Meghabghab, Roane State. Facilitated by Diane Weaver, Coursetune COO

Three faculty members discuss the pitfalls and hardships of getting other faculty buy-ins to map and align their courses and how Coursetune can help make it a more valuable experience than traditional processes and spreadsheets.

Coursetune Camp 2019 Professional Development Resources featuring (by alpha), James Altman, Jackrabbit LX, Brenda Boyd, Quality Matters, Diane Weaver, Coursetune Co-Founder and COO.

Round up of PD resources including courses by Coursetune Services, Quality Matters, and iDesign’s LX Pathways.

In the last decade, technologies like adaptive learning, smartphones, learning analytics, OER, and MOOCs have been chipping away at the corners of traditional education. In the near future, we’ll be dealing with even more disruptive technologies like bots and artificial intelligence. Technology-enhanced learning is here to stay and it is altering formal education, like it or not. This is a guide to successfully navigating and thriving in this new world and preparing yourself and your students for what is to come.

In this session, participants will discuss the current state of American accreditation to include information about the Negotiated Rulemaking from 2019. When and how will those new regulations be implemented, what is the status of regulations from the past, how can regulations from the past still haunt institutions in the present, and what should institutions do to ensure they keep abreast of regulatory requirements for their institutions.

See Herzing University’s innovative approach to improving their outcomes assessment data. This process can be done with any LMS.

Take a sneak peek at Coursetune and then sign up for a demo. Coursetune offers a completely new way to visualize the underpinnings and framework of curriculum design. See at-a-glance how it all correlates from institutional outcomes to learning objectives. The interface itself will visually alert you to areas that need improvement. Manage communication across teams and stakeholders.

How can Coursetune help with the continuous improvement of courses? Capture ideas for courses “in the moment,” share ideas transparently and collaborate with your design team, move planned suggestions to a task list for the next version, and dig into the reasons about why changes were made in the past.

Western Governors University shares their insights on accreditation using Coursetune.

Western Governors University presentation on assessments.

Moving forward without a map? Listen to an inspirational story about adapting and moving forward from Ozark Technical College.

Have you ever wondered what’s really in your curriculum? Have you dug in deep to figure out what your students are learning and how it aligns with your program’s outcomes? Have you been looking for ways to engage faculty in the curriculum design process? Are you tired of slogging through spreadsheets and documents trying to find answers? Karina Lin, then a course designer at Harvard DCE, shared how the division used Coursetune to find some answers and build alignment.

Hear about the innovations at Synergis for collaborative course development at an OPM.

Listen to Roane State Community College discuss using Coursetune to overcome challenges.

Learn how ASU used Coursetune to improve their instructional design process.

Quick tips in under a minute.

How can Mapping Sets in Coursetune make your life easier? Do things like map learning objectives to program outcomes, map CLOs to institution outcomes, indicate which competencies lead to a badge or certificate, track progress in curriculum development workflow, and much much more.

Take a sneak peek at Coursetune and then sign up for a demo. Coursetune offers a completely new way to visualize the underpinnings and framework of curriculum design. See at-a-glance how it all correlates from institutional outcomes to learning objectives. The interface itself will visually alert you to areas that need improvement. Manage communication across teams and stakeholders.

Ozarks Technical Community College (OTC) Idea Lab instructional designers share a video of their first time showing Coursetune to faculty members. Watch video to see how engaged the faculty are in the discussion of aligning their program to a national accreditation. Coursetune enables teams to see curriculum in a whole new way and gain insights quickly and easily. The OTC teams are “in awe at what this software can do.”

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to add a learning objective scale to a course in Coursetune and how to view the LO scale visualizations.