In my post today, I’m going to show you how to use GoogleDocs and Google Calendar to create a dynamic calendar for a course. This calendar can be displayed as a web page or embedded in a course web ...

A "collaborative syllabus" is one in which the students have the ability to help determine the specifics of a course. Those specifics can be any element that a professor is willing to be flexible with ...

Designing a successful academic course is a multi-step process requiring both subject expertise and pedagogical knowledge. To ensure the best possible alignment between course subject matter and ...

Your challenge is to jot down or think of at least 5 must-have elements for a great and inclusive syllabus before scrolling down for our recommendations. Designing Syllabi for Clarity, Collaboration, ...

Student leaders are working with University of Missouri faculty to create an online repository of course outlines — ideally, to make class structures more transparent ahead of semester scheduling. The ...

This in-person session is designed for those who may be unfamiliar with the required elements of a Dalhousie syllabus or are new to creating a syllabus and are learning what they might want to include ...

Many of the decisions affecting the success of a course take place well before the first day of class. Careful planning at the syllabus design stage not only makes teaching easier and more enjoyable, ...

Both minimalist and maximalist approaches to syllabus design have their proponents: concise syllabi are easier to navigate, while detailed ones offer a more precise picture of the course structure.

I have the mixed fortune of living in a city that, as of this writing, had the highest total snowfall in the United States this year (woohoo Worcester, Massachusetts!). As a skier, I welcome snow; as ...