Student Retention, Interleaving, and Fundamental Concepts: Design Your Course with This in Mind!
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When you’re designing a course, what should you consider? How can you create your course so students are remembering and recalling the information you’re teaching throughout the entire semester? In this episode, we’ll explain how fundamental and powerful concepts can help you design your course with the big picture in mind.  We’ll explain how starting from the end when designing your course is beneficial and will help you create an elevator pitch and purpose for your course. And lastly, we’ll go over how you can incorporate interleaving into your course design to improve student retention. Recommended Resources: Magna Online Seminar: Course Design Strategies to Enhance Critical Thinking SkillsMagna Online Seminar: Creative Course Design: Yes You Can!Magna Online Seminar: Using Interleaving in Course Design to Improve Retention
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