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Redesigning the Syllabus to Reflect the Learning Journey

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The Syllabus Gets a Facelift. If we think about learning as a journey that gets compartmentalized in formal education, then the first experience for middle and high school students is often the syllabus. In many ways, the traditional syllabus places restrictions on when, what and how students will learn.

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More Than a Million Syllabuses at Your Fingertips

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Open Syllabus Project (OSP), a research project organizing data gathered from over a million syllabuses. By looking at the texts that entire generations of college students read, researchers can tell the history of academia itself. Digital humanists create tools like OSP, in this case to research the history of teaching and learning.

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70+ Online Resources to Gamified Education

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Here are popular online resources to teach about using games in education ( click here for updates to the list ): Battleship on Google Sheets Breakouts by BreakoutEdu.com — a bit like Webquests but more comprehensive Breakout Room Template Game Show Templates –Frazzle, Jeopardy, Family Feud, Price is Right, more Gamified Syllabus –a template to create (..)

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How a Database of 6 Million Syllabi Could Spawn a New Measure of Scholarly Impact

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It’s called the Open Syllabus Project , and this week its leaders released a new version of their tool that analyzes assignment lists from more than six million syllabi. Karaganis, though, notes that the Communist Manifesto is most often taught in history courses. A project run out of Columbia University is working to do just that.

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How to Assess Inclusiveness in Teaching

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Braithwaite stresses that, “We need awareness of our situatedness—in time, space, in culture and in how we experience the flow of history through us. Verify that your syllabus contains statements that reflect your values in this area. The text of your syllabus and course design. And the subtext of your syllabus.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. A few repositories like the Open Syllabus Project collect syllabi from around the world.

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How Can Online Instructors Get Students to Talk to Each Other?

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As a person who primarily engages in reading via digital devices , I get to participate in a version of this kind of history showing up in the margins when I am reading a digital book. The Marginal Syllabus project is just one example of the power of this type of collaboration. These notes may be shared publicly or saved privately.