Summer is a great time to plan new courses or revise existing ones, so here are some particularly useful course design resources:
The files listed on our Syllabus Boilerplates page allow faculty to easily copy and paste required/recommended syllabus statements from existing Word documents.
The Chronicle offers a helpful breakdown of four major learning models, which are important to consider when writing new assignments or considering learning objectives.
When it comes to actually writing learning outcomes in your syllabus, Articulate Your Learning Objectives from Carnegie Mellon University offers extremely helpful and concrete advice.
It can be difficult for teachers to know when they should be at a certain stage in their course design process, so this suggested course design calendar offers a flexible set of guidelines to help stay on pace before (and during) Autumn Quarter.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The End of the Quarter (and Year!)
As we near the end of Spring Quarter 2011, we're also putting the finishing touches on Academic Year 2010-11. These resources will help instructors get through the next two weeks and begin planning for next year:
Try adding customized questions to your online teaching evaluations.
Design tests and quizzes that assess student learning and also motivate them to engage with the material.
Be sure to submit grades through Campus Connection. As a number of faculty members have asked recently, releasing grades in D2L is not the way to record official course grades.
It's never to early to start thinking about your courses for Academic Year 2011-12. This might involve revising your syllabus, rethinking your course goals, or designing new assignments.
Try adding customized questions to your online teaching evaluations.
Design tests and quizzes that assess student learning and also motivate them to engage with the material.
Be sure to submit grades through Campus Connection. As a number of faculty members have asked recently, releasing grades in D2L is not the way to record official course grades.
It's never to early to start thinking about your courses for Academic Year 2011-12. This might involve revising your syllabus, rethinking your course goals, or designing new assignments.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Spotlight on Teaching & Learning: May 2nd Edition
It's the beginning of the month, which means that a new Teaching Carnival is now available on ProfHacker!
A Prezi by Brandon Lutz called "60 in 60: Web 2.0 Tools" highlights 60 websites and applications that teachers can use to enrich their courses.
Faculty Focus offers some quick, practical tips for facilitating better discussions in class.
A Northwestern professor's post on the University of Venus blog offers a unique perspective on the quarter system
A Prezi by Brandon Lutz called "60 in 60: Web 2.0 Tools" highlights 60 websites and applications that teachers can use to enrich their courses.
Faculty Focus offers some quick, practical tips for facilitating better discussions in class.
A Northwestern professor's post on the University of Venus blog offers a unique perspective on the quarter system
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Teaching and Sustainability
DePaul's new sustainability website illustrates some of the important new initiatives taking place across the university. After learning more about sustainability at DePaul, these resources may provide some ideas for bringing the subject into the classroom:
An easy-to-use online Carbon Footprint Calculator will prompt students to consider their own impact on the environment.
Vanderbilt's Center for Teaching offers some concrete tips for teaching sustainability and points to further resources on the topic.
The Ecological Society of America provides helpful ecological fact-sheets that instructors could use to spark discussions or in-class writing exercises.
An easy-to-use online Carbon Footprint Calculator will prompt students to consider their own impact on the environment.
Vanderbilt's Center for Teaching offers some concrete tips for teaching sustainability and points to further resources on the topic.
The Ecological Society of America provides helpful ecological fact-sheets that instructors could use to spark discussions or in-class writing exercises.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Spotlight on Teaching and Learning: April 7th Edition
This month's Teaching Carnival is now posted on ProfHacker and features dozens of carefully selected teaching articles, resources, and blog posts.
An article from Inside Higher Ed addresses the NCTE's "Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing," which points to the ways in which teachers must increasingly adapt traditional measures of "standard" student writing.
Faculty Focus offers an interesting perspective on how the language used in online discussion rubrics might not be sensitive to increasing international and cultural diversity at most schools.
Melissa from Faculty Instructional Technology Services (FITS) addresses how instructional technologies are evaluated and adopted at DePaul and why it's so important for faculty voices from across the university to be part of that process.
An article from Inside Higher Ed addresses the NCTE's "Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing," which points to the ways in which teachers must increasingly adapt traditional measures of "standard" student writing.
Faculty Focus offers an interesting perspective on how the language used in online discussion rubrics might not be sensitive to increasing international and cultural diversity at most schools.
Melissa from Faculty Instructional Technology Services (FITS) addresses how instructional technologies are evaluated and adopted at DePaul and why it's so important for faculty voices from across the university to be part of that process.
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