The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach

This is a great resource for new and seasoned faculty alike. After nearly ten years in academia and completing a one-year higher education certification program during my doctoral studies, this book gave me loads of new ideas for my syllabi. I likely added another one to two pages to my 'standard' syllabi text, all of which I believe makes my syllabus a much stronger learning tool without adding any fluff material. The lengthy 'examples' section helped a lot and I took some of the basic ideas presented there and tailored them to my courses.If you're a new faculty member trying to develop new syllabi, a mid-career professor seeking to improve your work (especially before department review), or a veteran faculty member hoping to improve your courses, this book will have something for you.

I expected more templates and specific suggestions for helping students use syllabi effectively.This was not the resource I wanted.

This book was a required text for t a PhD Teaching Principles and Methods seminar - basically, teaching soon-to-be instructors how to teach in higher education. One major focus of the seminar was the composition (and execution) of a course syllabus in a class setting. This work provided some helpful insights into the composition of a syllabus focused more on student learning, rather than course content or even instructor performance. This work has several examples for each potential component an instructor might decide to include in his or her syllabus.

Good introductory book for new instructors. I was honestly hoping for more student friendly approaches to the syllabus. But not a bad resource.

This author brings together a wealth of research and scholarship on teaching and learning. She uses the syllabus as the primary vehicle for articulating these new understandings and to argue for a particular, engaging pedagogy.

I run an annual conference and a sub-group of this conference is a Doctoral Institute for near-graduate or just-graduated PhDs. This book was one of our gifts to them in their mission to become leading educators in the collegiate classroom.I highly suggest this book if you are a junior academic, or have one in your family.

I am very impressed by this book. I have been making syllabi for the past 15 years and this book is helping me rethink how I go about it, how to use the syllabus as a tool for student-centered teaching. I would highly recommend it to any university teacher.

Helpful book for new or just starting out professors.

Excellent!