Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Online Course Syllabi Page

Many students believe that online classes are easier than in person classes. We (the faculty) need to change this perception. One way to do this is to share our syllabi for our online classes in an easy to find location. This way any student can review the syllabus before signing up for the class. Under the current set up the students can not view the course syllabus till they sign up for the class and are enrolled in blackboard. The syllabus is locked up behind the blackboard walls. Some faculty have their syllabi on their own websites but very few students search for these...
We need to create a central location on the Virtual College webpage where all the course syllabi are collected and easy to access by anyone before signing up for the online class.
Another advantage of such a set up is to give access to various bureaucrats an access point to look at what is being covered in various virtual classrooms.
Finally, this can be a way for faculty to learn from one another by looking at each others syllabi.
I got this idea from looking at the College of the Canyons website.  Here is the list of their online and Hybrid classes for Fall 2012 with their syllabi. Here is their main page for what they call Instructor's Orientation Letters.

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