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CET Director Danielle Mihram and CST's Otto Khera lead a collegial, interactive workshop on interactive syllabi and the Web.
The syllabus is the roadmap for a course and the cornerstone agreement between the instructor and the learner. It is anessential document that outlines the expectations for the course, the content, the activities and the course events.
This two-part hands-on workshop helps participants articulate the objectives of a course toward creating an interactive syllabus. These succinctly defined objectives are connected to the content, links, and events that make up the syllabus. The interactive syllabus is discussed in the context of environments conducive to self-exploration and the principles of effective syllabus design. Participants are introduced to different available technologies used to create an online, interactive syllabus together with examples of different interactive syllabi from actual courses.
For this first part, participants are expected to have prepared a draft set of objectives for a four-week course on a topic or discipline of interest, e.g., principles of economics, mechanical physics, introduction to math integration, 19th-century German literature, methods of teaching, etc. These objectives will be used by each of the participants for the first and second parts of the workshop toward creating an interactive syllabus.
As technology evolves, instructors and students interact with each other and with content in new and innovative ways to achieve teaching and learning objectives. This second of a two-part workshop series focuses on the technologies used to create an interactive syllabus that encourages a shared learning environment. Participants will build upon the objectives defined in the first session with the goal of creating a complete interactive syllabus.
Technologies for the purposes of this workshop are focused on Blackboard, PowerPoint, Flash, Word, and Hot Potatoes. As well, this session focuses on available Web and USC resources, and proper attribution of content and links.
Participants are required to attend the first session to participate in the second one.
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