Tag: course outline

  • An exercise for active reading of the syllabus

    “Piled Higher and Deeper” by Jorge Cham http://www.phdcomics.com   It’s syllabus-writing season! Here’s an exercise I devised several years ago that I’m still using to promote students’ active thinking about course policies — and faculty understanding of how students perceive course requirements and regulations. The article explaining my exercise was published in the Atlantic Universities’…