Instructional Design

Syllabus

For this project, I have included a visual syllabus to highlight the objectives, modules, grades, and course expectations. The community college where I usually teach the model for this course has an extensive list of required items that faculty is supposed to cover that there is little room for course specific material without the document becoming very long. Because of this, in practice, I usually briefly review the syllabus the first day of class and then it’s filed away. The class schedule, assignment guides, and rubrics are the class documents we focus on in the day-to-day operation of the class.

 

This visual syllabus is an attempt to give the document a more prominent role in the course. In this format I could link to the specific Modules. Learning guides could be linked via the list of Objectives. The rubrics could be linked via the separate assignments listed under Grading. The syllabus could then become the homepage of the course and students could navigate it just as they would a website.