Questions tagged [course-design]
Questions relating to the design of courses, such as ordering of material, frequency of assessment, duration of class sessions, homework requirements, etc.
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Is it acceptable for a professional course to grade essays on "creativity"?
My spouse has registered for a class which is required by the state license board to continue working in her field as a mathematics teacher.
The bulk of the assignments will be self-reflections. She ...
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Using another professor's slides for my course
I teach economics at an Indian University and recently came across some good publicly available lecture slides by another professor (US R1 University). I would like to share the slides with my ...
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Are there any standards for course prefixes?
In various universities I've looked at, there are some course prefixes that seem common, e.g.:
CSC: Computer Science
BIO: Biology
MTH and MAT: Mathematics
I have also seen four-character prefixes, ...
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Instructor is convering a large portion of course in small period of time
We are taking a course in Mathematical Physics and due to pandemics, the semester period is reduced by at least a month than usual. The last few classes were rushed, the instructor barely give time to ...
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May a postdoc propose, design, and lecture his graduate-level course? [closed]
I'll be starting a postdoc position in a Canadian institute soon. However, I could not secure any independent lectureship in the course of my contract interval (but just a limited joint lectureship ...
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Distribution of in-class and online activities during hybrid teaching after COVID-19
Here in Brazil we are slowly returning to face-to-face activities, and this includes university classes. Most proposal suggest that we do this gradually, by first implementing a hybrid teaching system ...
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Advice on grading assignments and exams during Covid Pandemic
I am TAing for an undergraduate course: "Data Structure and Algorithms". The course is attended by around 200 students consisting of second to fourth-year students of multiple disciplines.
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Is material produced for a course considered property of the department?
I was asked last year to set up a completely new course, far from my expertise (say, you work on differential equations but they ask you to teach general relativity). The department did not give me ...
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How should a prof assign duty for a course with a discussion forum/board?
I am (with a few fellow TAs) helping a prof with an online course in STEM that has a discussion forum/board. However, it seems to me that this wasn't really thought through and now we have reached a ...
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Alternative ways to use lecture time when only one quarter of the students can attend?
In the upcoming semester, we are going to organise and hold a beginner’s lecture with some peculiar restrictions (due to the COVID-19 crisis):
We can use a lecture hall at two 90-minute slots per ...
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Can I teach the same course I developed at one university at another university as well?
University A hired me to teach a course. It paid the costs of preparation (3 months) and financed tranining sessions to enhance my instructing abilities.
University B now asked me to offer the same ...
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Why do UK universities often have Classics and History MA courses separated?
In many UK universities Classics courses (study/research of the history and culture of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations) are singled out and presented distinct from History courses. They even ...
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My professor is not teaching his online course himself, but uses publicly available videos instead. Is this appropriate?
I'm taking a graduate course online this semester, and have noticed a few things:
Professor has assigned us a mid-term, a final, and a research paper as the coursework for the class. These are the ...
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Developing a digital literacy course [closed]
I am developing a digital literacy course in Persian. Do you know where can I find a similar course or quality content in English?
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Can a single college course section be taught by two professors?
For example, having half of the lessons taught by one professor, and the other half of the lessons taught by another professor.
If this isn't possible, why isn't it possible? Can you provide any ...
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Changing level of difficulty of assignments for a course based on average class performance
As a teaching faculty in mathematics, do I need to change the difficulty level of assignments after assessing the average class performance in the first couple of lectures? I am not sure if this is ...
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How to assign grades in a game development course?
I am planning a course on game development. Currently my main problem is how to design the assignments and grade them in a fair and objective manner. In previous courses I taught (like basic ...
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How should I plan my course schedule given that my wife is due to give birth during the semester?
I have been teaching for a few years at my university,
and have mostly gotten into the rhythm of teaching and doing research.
This semester, I am teaching two courses.
What is different this semester ...
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Is it common to have exam questions 'peer reviewed'?
How common is it that exam questions, after being designed by the instructor and before being given to the students, are checked by a colleague in one's same institute, to make sure that they are ...
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Recitation Grades
I'm a Graduate Teaching Assistant in a Mathematics at a large state university. In the fall semester, I will be expected to be a TA for Calculus I, which will be taken by first year students. The ...
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Is an undergraduate physics degree the same everywhere in terms of coursework?
Is a degree in physics the same everywhere in terms of what is being taught or are there differences from one institution to the other ?
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How common is flipped classroom type teaching?
Flipped classroom teaching has become gradually more popular and studies show that the effectiveness of learning is better than in traditional lecture type courses. I've tried to give feedback to my ...
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Should I include non-English textbooks in the course?
This is set up in a Russian university with English as a working language, but may apply to any university with a large share of international students.
Suppose I'm listing a set of course materials, ...
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How should I structure exams when individual problems could use up the entire class time?
I am currently preparing for a new class in an area in which the individual problems can be very long. (My writeups for individual homework problems were often three or four pages long when I took the ...
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Strategies to manage long-term course development
I'm in an interesting position in that I get to work with multiple instructors on multiple courses. I'm usually tasked with coming up with draft assignments, rubrics, and other learning material. So ...
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