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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

I think the phenomena of the infographic syllabus has been an effort by many teachers to make that document more accessible, more real,” she explains. “We We can solve a lot of problems as educators if we can just get people to read the syllabus upfront.”.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

I grew tired of uploading the syllabus as a file within our LMS, only to need to upload a new version every single semester. I then found myself needing to send out a revised syllabus to her and once again having to upload a revision to the LMS. I would name it something like syllabus-BUSN114.pdf syllabus-BUSN114.pdf)

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Make it Easy for Students to Interact It can be a delicate balance to try to not overwhelm students by the quantity of educational technology we use in a class, while still keeping things interesting through the element of surprise. The Marginal Syllabus project is just one example of the power of this type of collaboration.

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JULY 21, 2025

In my current summer Composition II course, I started with an experiment: students uploaded our syllabus to ChatGPT, introduced themselves using a custom prompt about their background, goals and past experiences with writing, and asked the AI to identify what they might enjoy, what could challenge them and how the course might help them grow. “I

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

A few repositories like the Open Syllabus Project collect syllabi from around the world. These portfolios bring those internal workings out in ways that a syllabus or course evaluations could never capture,” she says. And some professors share their teaching tips informally on blogs like ProfHacker.

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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

In her syllabus written before the pandemic, she had planned a final exam with a series of physics problems for students to work out. That was the case with Stephanie Bailey, an assistant professor at Chapman University who was teaching an introductory physics course in the spring covering concepts like electricity and magnetism.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Since he has been forced to teach online during COVID, to students who are struggling with job losses and disruptions, he has realized that most students want to learn, even if they may not meet the strict requirements on the syllabus. “I

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Exams Syllabus Lecturing Testing 178

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), Ensure content in the LMS course matches syllabus content and information (it’s ok to have information in both the syllabus and the LMS). Use consistent naming conventions, page labeling, etc. across the course.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features? Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference.  2 (2019): 255–75.

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Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 126

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

Other elements of his syllabus were going to be taught using flexible online learning modules. Knowing he would have limited live time with students, he felt it was important to reflect on what aspects of the curriculum and his day were most critical to teach in-person with students.

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APRIL 9, 2020

For example, a philosophy professor at University of Notre Dame designed an introductory course that draws on “ interactive digital essays ” published on mobile-friendly web pages attached to the online syllabus, reports Inside Higher Ed. Of course, these programs may take significant time to develop.

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Distance Learning Syllabus Internet Learning 212

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

5 Highlight Reads from Clever’s Freshman Seminar If you aspire to or currently work in education technology, equip yourself with industry knowledge along with empathy for the teachers and students you hope to impact.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Start with your syllabus, make your syllabus accessible and then do one document per week. So find the one thing in your course where you know students always get stuck, or they always have a muddiest point or problem, and start with that. Start with the one thing that, you know, they could possibly use multiple formats of.

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Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 217

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2016

But we rarely see novel education technology or human capital innovations built to address this challenge. and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education ,” has incredible structures laid out for teachers looking to bring student voices to the forefront of their pedagogy.

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Culture Education Syllabus Attention 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Called Agent Smith , it’s an artificially intelligent system that absorbs information from a course syllabus and uses it to build a Jill Watson customized to that class. Now, Goel and his colleagues are working on a new tool that can build a Jill Watson with just a bit of human help. Doing so takes only about 10 hours of work from a human.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Later in my career, as I moved districts and technology became more accessible, I had to contend with the sly texting in their laps, though they’d pretend to be on task. My syllabus had a no-technology policy and it wasn’t perfect, but it helped. I performed then too.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In the end she builds the final syllabus based on their suggestions. After Parra has combined her learning goals and objectives with that of her students, she gives it back to them, and asks them for their ideas for the activities and resources that they could do in the course and assessments.

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Culture Teaching Syllabus English 153

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2019

Fullop, of Eureka College, said the online directory of courses helped sell her faculty on doing online course sharing, since it allows them to look at details about each course—including the syllabus and even some “learning assessment data”—to decide case by case whether to accept them. “I

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Art Syllabus Study Grades 155

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

If I said what the things were that I cut from my syllabus or my department chair duties, I would probably get in trouble. I conclude that there are many, many things in higher education that we simply don’t need to be doing, and shouldn’t be doing, and we should ask for forgiveness rather than permission as we happily cut them away.

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Education Syllabus Instructors Intelligence 187

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features? Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference.  2 (2019): 255–75.

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Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform. Course management technology organizes and presents course structure and materials on an electronic platform. Student support technology supports students’ academic performance.

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Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 152

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), Ensure content in the LMS course matches syllabus content and information (it’s ok to have information in both the syllabus and the LMS). Use consistent naming conventions, page labeling, etc. across the course.

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Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 105

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

The concept of gradual release of responsibility is second nature to me when working with students in grades K-12, but in my new role teaching graduate students in an education technology program, I am struggling to model so many of the practices I expect these teachers to use in their own classrooms.

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Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2024

The concept is: What if a syllabus was something that students could ask questions of rather than a static document? “If “We want to have a lot of experimentation that takes place,” he says. One idea being explored is a project that he says they “jokingly call Syllabot.”

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Intelligence Syllabus Feedback Assignments 211

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Nearly a thousand of the education industry’s C-level executives, private equity fund managers and investors gathered at BMO Capital’s “ Back to School ” conference in New York City. These days, the public companies in attendance tend to be education technology providers, says Silber. He expects more to come.

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Education Textbooks Syllabus Schools 140

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

There are plenty of things students complain about, but no other educational technology has drawn as much organized protest in recent months. Is a ‘desk scan’ necessary for a syllabus quiz? His argument is that the number of people signing petitions is tiny compared to the number of students using remote proctoring.

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Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Advisors can help students establish healthy work habits by sending helpful advice for meeting deadlines before classes begin such as: Plan ahead: Get a “lay of the land” of the course by reading the syllabus. Use a planner to indicate major course deadlines, review it regularly and implement steps to meet those deadlines.

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Online Learning Instructors Coaching Mobile Devices 187

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

Redesigning the Syllabus to Reflect the Learning Journey - Mark Engstrom, head of middle and upper school at Allen Academy in Bryan, Texas, shares an encouraging story about rethinking curriculum to encourage “students to make decisions and take a more active role as learners.”.

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Learning Syllabus Interdisciplinary Blended Learning 163

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2019

I have created what I’m calling my “prep syllabus” and hope to set a solid foundation for myself. I would love to get your feedback on what should be in my "prep syllabus” and how to make that transition. I am entering a doctorate in Leadership in Higher Ed program in the fall and am working hard at preparing myself. Thanks so much!

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Syllabus Writing Schools Research Methods 135

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Write your own GenAI policy to include in your syllabus. & Yu, Z.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A resource called Merlot has long applied peer review to online educational materials, and Downes says he was involved in a repository for online course materials called eduSource.

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Textbooks Syllabus Instructors Peer Review 176

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

At the college level, Bowen sees potential wins for faculty in the near future, if, say, tools like learning management systems add AI features that can do tasks like build a course website after the instructor feeds it a syllabus. That’s going to be a real time saver for faculty,” he predicts.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

Students gain access to their courses — syllabus, main project, required engagements, discussion forum and other materials — a week prior to the start of class. Sessions are divided into week-long modules, opening Monday mornings and ending Sunday evenings. Assignments, in largely project-based instruction, are due at the end of each week.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Instructors who flunk a student on an exam can reasonably expect to see an email from a concerned parent every so often. Helicopter parenting” is so common today that faculty include lines in their syllabuses gently reminding students to take ownership on their work—not defer to their parents to ask the professor why their child performed poorly.

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Syllabus Exams Instructors Study 154

Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2018

There’s good news for those who don’t know where to start or are weary of having to redo their entire syllabus or curriculum. “A lot of people are generally intimidated because there are so many guidelines, and if you don't have a technical background, that can be scary,” Eskridge says.

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Accessibility Disabilities Instructors Syllabus 158

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But this year, with the arrival of the World Cup, I came prepared, and my students knew it when they saw our sports journalism unit built into the syllabus on the first day. Still, by and large, I’m an extreme disappointment to my student-athletes and sports fans alike. Are these days blocked off for the World Cup?!” they exclaimed.

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English Culture Syllabus Writing 200

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

British Journal of Educational Technology, 50 (5), 2288-2307. Enabling critical thinking development in higher education through the use of a structured planning tool. 2016), and culturally responsive teaching is a powerful tool for creating robust learning environments (Byrd, 2016). link] Commander, N. link] Golden, B.

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