We have been talking on and off about essential questions with Chris. Just the other day, because I am facilitating an online course about online course development (yup, I am!), a participant in the course submitted a syllabus with an essential question in it, and this was such a joyous moment that I had to capitalize on it and spread the message.
If you are not familiar with essential questions as they apply to course and curriculum design, you are in for a treat! Essential questions are defined as the big, important questions that recur in one’s life, open-ended overarching questions exploring the deeper connections between objects in the world, and some say these are the questions that touch our…
