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You know you want some. . . Now’s your chance!

THE SYLLABUSTHE SYLLABUSas a Learning Device

GraphicGraphic

Who’s the teacher?

How hard is he/she?

Is there a paper?

Will I pass?

Two components

Two components

Schedule of topics

Learning objectives/outcomes

44 basic items . . .44 basic items . . .

Syllabus checklist . . . .Syllabus checklist . . . .

Why don’t they read?

Why don’t they read?

Too much text?Too much text?

Average reading speed for college students. . .

Average reading speed for college students. . .

250 words a minute. . .

One typed page

250 words per minute

one typed page. . .

100 words per minute

scientific text . . .

Is there another way?Is there another way?

Structure connects the known with the unknownStructure connects the known with the unknown

Graphic syllabus

Outcomes map

organization and schedule

learning

We learn better from We learn better from

words and pictures words and pictures

together than from together than from

words or pictureswords or pictures

alone.alone.

We learn better from We learn better from

words and pictures words and pictures

together than from together than from

words or pictureswords or pictures

alone.alone.

Detail and organization

Gestalt+

The best of both worlds

SyllabusDesign

CourseDesign

RubricDesign Assessment

Design

A Taxonomy of Teaching Design

SyllabusDesign

A Taxonomy of Teaching Design

CourseDesign

RubricDesign

AssessmentDesign

Graphicelementsbreak upblocks oftext. . . .

GraphicElementsGraphic

Elements

EfficientEfficient MemorableMemorable

PerceptualPerceptualEnhancementEnhancement

individual elements

spatial arrangement

Two memory systems:

episodic

visual-spatial

semantic

verbal

Retained better and longer

Retrieved more easily

Graphicsyllabus

We seethe wholepictureat once. . .

Graphic syllabus

Outcomes map

Now it’s up to you!

O’Brien, Judith Grunert, Millis, Barbara, and Cohen, Margaret W. (2008). The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach, 2nd ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Nilson, Linda (2007). The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

References

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Entelechy Productions (2010)