Course and curriculum development

Whether you are creating a face-to-face, blended or online course for the first time or you would like to change an existing course, The Centre’s course development experts can help you define your learning objectives, design aligned learning activities, and formulate effective assessments to improve learner outcomes. 

Our Educational Developers can help with your face-to-face, blended and online courses.

We also have digital media specialists who can help enhance student engagement in your online course by supporting you with the development of media assets and high quality videos.

If you need help developing your course or are undecided on whether to teach your course in a face-to-face, blended or online modality, email catl_info@umanitoba.ca to book a consultation with one of our Educational Developers.

If you would like to discuss creative media or video options, book a consultation with one of our Digital Media Specialists or videographers.

1. Choose your modality. You’ve chosen to design your course as a online or blended course.

2. Apply evidence-based pedagogical principles. The following resources are available to assist you:
   • A detailed step-by-step guide: The Centre Course Development Guide
   • Use the Quality Matter rubric (QM) to keep you on track in the process
   • A brief overview: Constructive Alignment resource page

3. Consider what Equity, Diversity and Inclusion means in your course design.
   • Use the principles of Universal Instructional Design as a basis.
   • Support International students through deliberate design
   • Support 2LGBTQ+ students through deliberate design

4. Explore Indigenous ways of knowing and identify how you can integrate these in both your course design and pedagogical approach.

5. Decide how you will ensure Academic Integrity in your course design.

6. Technology
   • Digital pedagogy asks you to consider whether technology should be part of your course design
   • Select learning technologies that will enable you to integrate technology into your course design.
   • Refer to the learning technologies pages for information about UM supported teaching technologies, related workshop listings, and one-on-one technology consultations.

7. Consider adding digital media
   • Digital media can enhance your course by displaying complicated data, difficult concepts, and enhance student engagement with interactive elements. Consult with a Digital Media Specialist to understand the available options.
   • Video media resources:
     • Instructional video at The Centre
     • Turn your presentation into a video

8. These ready-to-use to use tools have been designed to support your course design:
   • Teaching Online Course (5 hour - self-register)
   • Online teaching syllabus template (QM and ROASS compliant)
   • Framework Courses
   • Knowledge Nuggets resources - Resources to include in your UM Learn course shell. Email Brenda Stoesz for access to Knowledge Nuggets.