{"id":1099,"date":"2025-12-29T12:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-education-seminars-summer-2023\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:59:10","slug":"backward-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/backward-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Backward Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #FFFF00\">To be completed by <strong>Thursday, January 8 for OER\/ZTC<\/strong> seminar; by <strong>Tuesday, January 13 for Open Assignment<\/strong> Seminar.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is backward design?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Xzi2cm9WTg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Read<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Read&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/bmcc\/reader.action?docID=5780349&amp;ppg=41&amp;c=UERG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chapter 1: Surfacing Backward Design<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<em>Small Teaching Online<\/em>. (The link goes to the e-book chapter in one of our Library databases, which you will be prompted to log into with your CUNY credentials. Let us know if you have any trouble accessing.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come to the next session ready to discuss using the backward design process in redesigning your course with OER or creating an open assignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reflect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflect on the following questions and post your responses as a comment below<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How is backward design different than your current process for designing learning experiences for your students?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are the essentials goals&#8211;&#8220;the enduring understandings&#8221;&#8211;that you want students to take away from your course or assignment (see p. 8)?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are your key take-aways from the chapter, &#8220;Surfacing Backward Design&#8221;?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in further reading, the second bullet point is closely related to <a href=\"https:\/\/ctl.uaf.edu\/essential-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;essential questions&#8221;<\/a> which Wiggins and McTighe wrote about in their book of the same name (available as an <a href=\"https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/bmcc\/detail.action?docID=1164262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ebook through the Libary<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bonus<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have time and interest, here is a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/teaforteaching.com\/71-small-teaching-online\/\" target=\"_blank\">podcast episode<\/a> interviewing the author of <em>Small Teaching Online<\/em>, Flower Darby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To begin exploring how to redesign our courses with no-cost materials, we look at the course planning process of backward design, working back from creating learning goals or outcomes to choosing the learning materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":2807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oer-ztc","category-open-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2863,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/2863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}