Designing For Purpose: PBL for Equity and Engagement

This course helps educators design purposeful, rigorous, and accessible project-based learning experiences that connect academic content to students’ lives, cultures, interests, and real-world contexts. Participants explore the elements of high-quality PBL, including driving questions, sustained inquiry, authenticity, student voice and choice, collaboration, scaffolding, assessment, and reflection. Through readings, video analysis, project design tasks, peer discussion, and applied assignments, educators develop tools for making project-based learning more equitable and engaging. By the end of the course, participants will design or revise a classroom-ready project-based learning experience that supports access, agency, and meaningful student learning.

How to Access Your Course Materials

After registering for graduate credit through Ashland University, participants must also complete course enrollment with Ashford & Dunbar Educational Services.

To access the course materials, participants should register and pay the Ashford & Dunbar course access fee at https://www.ashforddunbar.com/courses 

Within 1–2 business days of completing Ashford & Dunbar registration and payment, participants will receive an email with instructions for accessing the course. 

After successful completion of all course requirements, the instructor will submit the final grade to Ashland University so the graduate credit can be recorded on the participant’s Ashland University transcript.

Please note, two registrations are required for university credit: one with Ashford & Dunbar to access course content, and one with Ashland University for university graduate credit. The cost for Ashford & Dunbar's content is $300, and the graduate credit with Ashland University is $465.

For course access questions, please contact:
nmartinez@ashforddunbar.com

For Ashland registration or transcript questions, please contact:
pds@ashland.edu