ITC: 41 – Using Backward Design to Build Better Courses

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In the Classroom with Stan Skrabut: Episode 41
Last Updated on: October 26, 2026

How focused are your courses? Do you have clear objectives? Are students meeting your objectives? Are students overwhelmed by your content? If you use backward design, you can ensure that all the elements are necessary and help students achieve your objectives.

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Backward design is an instructional design strategy for developing courses. With backward design, you start by creating your objectives. Next, you create your assessments. Finally, you develop your instructional content. The result is a tighter course that focuses on exactly what you want your learners to know.

In this episode, I am going to break down the elements and process for implementing backward design. During the podcast, I will also touch on developing objectives and Bloom’s revised taxonomy for learning.

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