syllabus Archives - Yin Wah Kreher

Art(s)

Collaborative Learning Activity: Poetry Writing

We sat around a table with interesting objects we had brought from home. A community of poet wannabes. Or poetry machines, Randy Marshall our chief instigator cheekily called us. He…

Art(s)

We Remain Ourselves

(Image source: http://bit.ly/idu9Xa) I was definitely intrigued by the title. Art-Based Research and the Intersection between Making Art and Teaching Art. “Her primary scholarship is in curriculum development, arts integration,…

Art(s)

Edson’s W;t

I came across the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play enough in my readings to decide that it’s definitely on my readlist and maybe, watchlist. After some scouting around my vicinity, it was ferreted…

Art(s)

It’s in the blood

(Image Source: http://bit.ly/cj5NQ5) Hough agreed, saying that after he began dancing with her: ‘I knew that it was in her body, that it was in her blood.’ Some things are…

Instructional Design, Teaching

Crafting a Learning-Centered Syllabus

August 13, 2017 /

Every course design is philosophy and belief in action. –Manifesto for Teaching Online, written by teachers and researchers in online education, University of Edinburgh 2011 [This was first posted in Engaged Learning blog, another blog I maintain for work. This is a companion blog post to the eLearning Bulletin Board Poster on the 4th Floor of Wohlers Hall, College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The poster is an abridged version of what a motivational syllabus looks like. It is intended to serve as a discussion stimulus only.] As instructors,…

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