Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning

Backward design, also called backward planning or backward mapping, is a process that educators use to design leaning activities and experiences and instructional techniques to achieve specific learning goals. Backward design begins with the objectives of a unit or course—what students are expected to learn and be able to do—and then proceeds “backward” to create opportunities for students to achieve those desired goals.

The term blended learning is generally applied to the practice of using both online and face-to-face learning experiences when teaching students. In a blended-learning course, for example, students might attend a class taught by a professor in a traditional classroom setting, while also independently completing online components of the course outside of the classroom

Bloom’s taxonomy is a classification system used to define and distinguish different levels of human cognition—i.e., thinking, learning, and understanding. Educators have typically used Bloom’s taxonomy to inform or guide the development of assessments, instruction, and trajectories of learning.   

Brain-based learning refers to teaching methods, lesson designs, and school programs that are based on the latest scientific research about how the brain learns, including such factors as cognitive development—how students learn differently as they age, grow, and mature socially, emotionally, and cognitively.

source: https://www.edglossary.org/brain-based-learning/