Planning your Syllabus

Title	Description	Size	Date Posted	Type
Creating a Syllabus	From the hard copy book Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis; Jossey-Bass Publishers: San Francisco, 1993.	-	9/12/07	Weblink
Solving Common Teaching Problems through Good Practices in Syllabus Construction	Research indicates a correlation between excellent teachers and comprehensive, detailed syllabi. Additionally, your syllabus may be one of the few concrete connections between you and your students. Though we would like to believe that students will absorb everything said about the course on the first day, in fact, students often do not remember anything other than what is in the syllabus and for this reason, need a written record of important features of the course.	53KB	11/29/07	PDF
The Purposes of a Syllabus	From the abstract: The purposes of a syllabus are almost as varied as the possible contents but can be grouped into several categories. The article proposes that syllabi serve three major roles: the syllabus as a contract, the syllabus as a permanent record, and the syllabus as a learning tool. Each function has implications for what a syllabus should contain.	52KB	11/29/07	PDF
Creating a Learning Centered Syllabus	A strong syllabus focuses on the “process of learning rather than the content…responsibility is placed on students to learn rather than on professors to teach.” In a learner-centered environment, the objective is “to facilitate student learning rather than to act as ‘gatekeepers’ of knowledge, doling it out in small doses.”	45 KB	11/30/07	PDF
JHSPH Online Learning Standards	This document is a comprehensive set of teaching and learning standards for developing and delivering online learning courses in the School. The document additionally contains policy recommendations to ensure that the standards have the greatest chance of being successfully implemented in the School.	824KB	6/12/08	PDF
JHSPH Online Learning Standards (abbreviated document)	An abbreviated version of the standards document for developing and delivering online learning courses in the School	208 KB	1/14/08	PDF