Best Teaching Practices: Discovery - Backward Design

Issued by Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES)

FAES Best Teaching Practices microcredentials prepare participants with diverse teaching interests to design and deliver a high-quality asynchronous course. There are six teaching badges, focusing on different areas of best teaching practices. Through a seven-week asynchronous course offered by FAES, students learn evidence-based educational principles that apply to both online and in-person courses, and specific approaches to put these principles into practice in an online environment.

Type Learning
Level Foundational
Time Weeks
Cost Free

Skills

Earning Criteria

Earners of the Best Teaching Practices: Discovery badge in Backward Design complete the related FAES course modules in Best Teaching Practices in Higher Education: Building a Learner-Centered Course from Principles to Practice. Earners demonstrate their ability to apply principles of backward design to plan learning activities and assessments that align with course objectives.