Backward Design readily lends itself to the enactment of competency-based medical education. Combining the steps to operationalize competencies with those of Backward Design yields a complete ...

I found myself falling into this very mode of course design recently, as I began planning an upper-level science fiction class for Fall 2011.

In backwards design, one starts by defining the learning goals (in this case, the program level learning outcomes, or PLOs). Those goals then drive the design of assessments and of the educational ...

Some teachers even use backward design to plan their lessons. And while the study focused on college students, the findings could also help high schoolers, Hedgcock said.

It’s called “backward design,” and the idea is pretty simple: Start planning your meeting by thinking about the desired outcome, not the content itself.

He urged teachers to work backwards, from the goals they wanted students to achieve to the knowledge they wanted pupils to acquire, and only then create a curriculum.

Backward Design A traditional, but less effective, approach to course design starts with identifying the content to cover then determines where to place exams and homework assignments.