Design

The first step is getting your ideas out. No in-depth research or careful consideration. Designing is not getting everything right at once, but starting somewhere and optimizing from there. This is your starting point!

TO DO

Download the Course Foundation Tool. Study it and fill out the tool.

Now that you have the foundation of your constructive alignment in place, supplement it with insights from experiences in other courses and projects. If you haven't filled in certaint parts of your foundation, now is the ideal time to seek inspiration from your colleagues.

TO DO

1. Find out if you can observe or join another CBL course or project. This will probably give you some ideas.
2. Have a talk with the teachers. Ask them for details about their course/project (For instance: how did you assess individual results when working in teams?)
3. Check out other projects or courses and collect screenshots or notes of everything that might be useful for your course.
4. Now, translate all this inspiration into ideas and add them to your Course Foundation.

Now is the time to enrich your basic design with more brilliant ideas. To do this, we use the 10 dimensions of CBL. If you are not yet familiar enough with them, via this link you can read the description for each dimension first.

Have these design exercises guided by your Teacher Support. They are trained to do this. Always do them with your full design team.

TO DO

Download the Ideation Tool and have fun generation the most brilliant ideas!

After generating ideas it is time to prioritize them and pick the ones you want to work with.

TO DO

1. Download the Prioritize Tool to start shaping your ideas.
2. Do you want to ensure your course meets the minimum criteria for a CBL course? Check out the Criteria for TU/e's CBL Courses page.

This step helps you to work out all your ideas from the course foundation and ideation schematically and thus complete your design. Use this as input for the development phase and your course schedule.

Below is what you have to do for each subject.

TO DO

• ILOs: you can keep them as they are, you will finalize them in the development phase.
• Challenge: download the Challenge Template and read the the explanation and examples. Use the output of your prioritization to complete  your challenge. Feel free to use your own format or the ones of the examples.
• Learning Activities and Assesment: plot all your priority activities and assesment into one clear overview. Go to this Miro template CBL Design Board and follow the instuctions on how to copy and use this sheet.
  If you can't or don't want to create a free Miro account, you can also use this Whiteboard template CBL Design Board. It has fewer functionalities, and copying the template may be a bit more challenging, but it is a suitable alternative.
• Wrap up: check and validate the challenge and learning journey with other collegues or potentional team members.