Teaching Design — Course & Curriculum Design Agent

A comprehensive teaching design tool for faculty at all career stages. Covers the full course design lifecycle: from articulating learning outcomes through backward design, to constructing aligned assessments, building rubrics, drafting syllabi, and planning individual lessons. Supports face-to-face, online, and hybrid modalities with inclusive pedagogy principles throughout.

Overview

Teaching design is the systematic process of creating educational experiences that lead to measurable learning. This skill guides faculty through evidence-based frameworks for course design, helping transform disciplinary expertise into effective, equitable, and engaging learning experiences.

The skill integrates three foundational frameworks:

1. Backward Design (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005) — Start with desired results, then determine acceptable evidence, then plan learning experiences
2. Constructive Alignment (Biggs & Tang, 2011) — Align intended learning outcomes, teaching/learning activities, and assessment tasks
3. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001) — Classify cognitive complexity of learning outcomes across six levels

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