Reimagining Education at Scale: the University of Michigan's Foundational Course Initiative

The University of Michigan educates at scale, introducing thousands of students every year to topics as various as Linguistics, Physics, and Screen Arts. Large foundational courses play an outsize role in this process. This year, we are launching a $5 million campus-wide Foundational Course Initiative to establish a new, 21st century collaborative approach to the creation and instruction of these courses. Faculty, staff, and students from departments will work with instructional consultants from the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching over a multi-year period to design, develop, and deliver next generation versions of foundational courses.