High school Principal Pete Steedman begins every school year by telling his staff to read an article by Grant Wiggins titled, “The Futility of Trying to Teach Everything of Importance.” “I love what ...

One of the greatest challenges of planning a course for the first time, or making substantial revisions, is what content to cover. Before my introduction to the principles of backward design, I would ...

One of the most robust backward design models developed for higher education is L. Dee Fink’s integrated course design. Fink outlines a streamlined process for designing academic courses, divided into ...

Earlier this summer I discussed the idea of backward design, which comes from Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s excellent book Earlier this summer I discussed the idea of backward design, which comes ...

Over the past 15 years, software accessibility has matured from a niche specialty to a mainstream expectation. Until around 2010, believe it or not, it wouldn’t have been considered unusual for a ...