Designing Your Course

How can you plan what students will be doing without first knowing what you want them to learn? By focusing course planning around clear learning objectives, instructors can have a better sense of how students should demonstrate their learning, and then consider what day-to-day experiences may best support students’ learning.

A course syllabus is an important document to do exactly this. While a syllabus may principally provide some of the “nuts and bolts” about a course and communicate campus-wide policies, it can also be a place to consider the tone and environment you’re creating for students before the class even...

Flipping the classroom is a pedagogical approach where students first explore new course content outside of class by viewing a pre-recorded lecture video or digital module, or completing a reading or preparatory assignment. In-class time is organized around student engagement, inquiry, and...

Teaching at scale is a specialized form of instruction. There is a specific kind of "stage fright" that comes with a large enrollment course; the fear of the "void", that 50-minute stretch where you’re talking to a room where many students are hidden behind screens.To fix this, we have to move...

For many students, the syllabus is their first introduction to your course. What information is important for students to know in order to be successful in your course? Explore a non-exhaustive list of recommended information and template statements to include in your course syllabi.