Clark Quinn discusses the process he and a team of collaborators used to begin the design process for a course. This resource has insightful information relating to learning strategies that would work well for teachers and designers alike.
It is tempting for teachers to believe that design thinking is for extraordinary, and only for rare individuals. In truth, design thinking is something all humans use every day. This brief video shares John Spencer's view of Design Thinking as an integrative experience!
In other words, course goals and objectives should guide the design of your course rather than technology (Aycock, Garnham, & Kaleta, 2002). Sands’ first principle for developing a blended course is to “work backward from the final course goal…to avoid a counterproductive focus on technology.”
This toolkit contains five different types of tools. Some were developed by NGLC regional partners and others are nationally-produced resources used by the regional partners to nurture and support equity within next gen learning design.