SYLLABI    What Makes a Good Web Syllabus?

AGENDA | PARTICIPANTS | LINKS | FRIDAYS

SELECTED SYLLABI

Step One. (Thirty Minutes) First we will look together at selected syllabi.

Early American History
Bill Friedheim, BMCC
http://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/acadpts/socscience/billfheim/his200/f200index.htm

Modern American History
Bill Friedheim, BMCC
http://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/acadpts/socscience/billfheim/125index.htm

Science at a Distance
John Blamire, Brooklyn College
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/SDV2.html

Together, we will consider the following questions.

• What is the conceptualization of these courses? What is the basic narrative idea or the basic governing structures and categories?
• What do you see as different/similar in terms of possibilities and conceptualization between a web-based syllabus like this and a print syllabus?
• Does this syllabus offer any good ideas to borrow?
• Does this syllabus help you think about what a web-based syllabus might look like in your discipline?

EXAMINING WEB SYLLABI IN YOUR DISCIPLINE

Step Two.  (Sixty Minutes) First, as an individual (or, if you choose, working with a partner), go to the following sites to find syllabi in your discipline.

World Lecture Hall http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/

Teaching and Learning on the Web (Maricopa) http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/

Assorted Other Syllabi click here

Choose one or two syllabi that you find interesting.  Consider what makes a good Web syllabus in your discipline.  What are its components?  How does it differ from a traditional syllabus?

Step Three.  (Thirty Minutes)  In your assigned group, share the syllabi you chose.  Discuss and develop criteria for good Web syllabi.  To what extent are the criteria you develop specific to disciplines?  To what extent are they generic to most all disciplines?

Step Four. (Thirty Minutes)  Debriefing as a large group on the criteria for good Web syllabi.