The last several editions of Golf Digest's ranking of America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses, including the freshly released 2025-2026 list, reflect a growing shift toward more “option-friendly” designs.

The latest version of GOLF’s “Top 100 Courses in the World” list once again highlights the game’s greatest layouts–both established legends and rising stars. Key to this edition is the fact that while ...

To provide guidance in designing fully online courses, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) has developed an Online Course Design Checklist (OCDC). This tool draws on learning-science research ...

Exciting news, rankings lovers: We’re just days away from publishing GOLF’s 2025-26 list of the Top 100 Courses in the World. To whet your appetite, we thought we’d do something different this time ...

Following a design process can help ensure course quality while reducing the time and effort it takes to develop a highly effective curriculum. Efficient Process: Course design is a complex process ...

The pandemic-driven switch to remote learning alerted many faculty members to the importance of course design. In an online course, keeping students on track requires clarity and structure; it also ...

One of the most robust backward design models developed for higher education is L. Dee Fink’s integrated course design. Fink outlines a streamlined process for designing academic courses, divided into ...