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Research shows that high-quality instructional materials can make a difference for students—yet less than 33 percent of materials used in classrooms are alig...

Easter eggs help learners to engage with the syllabus and add personality to your course.

What's considered "best practice" when it comes to syllabi design? These instructors address the scattered collection of positives and negatives.

The following information is also available in PDF format What is a Community Agreement? Why make Community Agreements? A community agreement (also known as group contract, learning agreement or classroom agreement) is a shared agreement between learners about how we want to work together over the course of our time together. This can include guidelines […]

Liquid Syllabus A humanizing element for online courses Sends the cue, “I will be a partner in your learning.” A Liquid Syllabus (Pacansky-Brock, 2021, 2014, 2017) is a humanizing element that ensures students start a course feeling supported by their instructor. It intentionally provides students with what they need to succeed in week one of…

These seven design elements help students get the most out of your syllabus, prepare them for the course, and focus the class on the learning goals ahead.

This model and template will help college, high school, and middle school teachers put together a syllabus that sets you and your students up for a great year.

Student reflections on Project-Based Learning

There's a lot of discussion and research about students' study habits outside the classroom, including re-reading, taking notes, and highlighting. Students tend to use these strategies inside the classroom, too . In either setting, are students retaining what they're trying to learn? Potentially,

The Educationalist. By Alexandra Mihai

UCLA Multiple ModalityTeaching Resources + Recommendations These days, UCLA instructors teach in an array of classroom structures and modalities. This document is designed to point you to resources, ideas, and recommendations that might be useful for your course. The table on p. 2 summarize...

Each time I have been able to talk with an expert about how they are making learning active in their classroom, I have walked away from the conversation inspired. I have been contemplating putting…

Online Resources for Academic Ableism By Jay Timothy Dolmage (2017) Table of Contents Online Resources for Academic Ableism 1 Universal Design: Places to Start 3 UNIVERSAL DESIGN OF LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS: PLACES TO START 4 Space: 4 Delivery: 4 Redundancy: 5 Translation: 6 Interaction: 7 Fi...

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Scoring guides center teachers, assess quantity & prioritize efficiency. Rubrics center students, assess quality & prioritize feedback.

One of the most pernicious stereotypes is that neurodivergent people are only a good fit for subordinate positions or working in highly technical or individual roles.

September 2020 Update: View all #AnnotatedSyllabus posts and resources. Perhaps it is not surprising, given my research about social annotation and learning, that the two most-read blog posts I&#82…

As instructors navigate the transition to emergency online teaching, a religious-studies professor’s “adjusted syllabus,” which lists principles to guide his work with students this term, is resonating with many.

Guest Contributor Sara Goldrick-Rab is a Professor of Higher Education Policy and Sociology at Temple. She describes herself as “a scholar-activist with a singular mission: to identify novel approaches to making higher education the accessible and

I don't grade student work, and I haven't for 20 years. This practice continues to feel like an act of personal, professional, and political resistance.