Watch the following videos to guide you through the first step of the backward design process: setting your course goals and objectives. .The videos appear as a series of seven clips; a new clip will automatically play after the previous one ends. Total run time is just under 20 minutes.

During the videos, you will sometimes see an hourglass icon in the top right corner on the screen, which is your signal to pause the video and take some time to reflect and write. We have provided the workbook as an optional activity to help guide you through these prompts. You can watch the videos in the playlist embedded within this page or open up a new window by following this link.

Notes:

The concepts from these videos are based on backward design from Understanding by Design by Wiggins & McTighe (1998). Vanderbilt has a useful overview of the book's content and a video of Grant Wiggins introducing the ideas behind the concept.
The videos, which were created prior to Canvas, are structured into short "Modules," meaning "an organized collection of pieces of content presented together." Please do not confuse this with the use of Canvas Modules within this course.