The following are links to resources for curriculum modification.

Learning Centered Syllabus Design

Designing a Learning-Centered Syllabus - While including basic information, the learning centered syllabus can be an important learning tool that will reinforce the intentions, roles, attitudes, and strategies that you will use to promote active, purposeful, effective learning.

Learning-Centered Syllabi Workshop - Creating and using a learner-centered syllabus is integral the process of creating learning communities.

Creating a Learning-Centered Syllabus - We can use our syllabus preparation as an opportunity to think much more intentionally about the learning that we want to occur each day in the classroom.

 

Integrating Technology into Curriculum Development

ITE Hotlinks: Curriculum Development/Integrating Technology and Content - A comprehensive list of links to resources on how to integrate technology with the content in your course.

Effective Use of the Web for Education: Design Principles and Pedagogy - The World Wide Web can be used to improve communication, increase collaboration, and promote active learning. This workshop explores the Web as used in education, with the goal of identifying elements and contexts that promote its effective use.

Anchored Instruction - Anchored instruction is a major paradigm for technology-based learning that has been developed by the Cognition & Technology Group at Vanderbilt (CTGV).

Duke Academic and Course iPod Projects - Several examples of how iPod devices are being used in Duke courses to engage students.

 

Strategies for Engaging Students

Strategies for Engaging Students - Specific techniques for engaging students in the classroom.

Admit/Exit Slips - An excellent way for teachers to have students write and provide information about what they think about the class, or the topic under discussion, or a specific teaching strategy/material being used.

Carousel Brainstorming - To activate students' prior knowledge of a topic or topics through movement and conversation.

Case Method/Studies - Identifies what cases entail, describes the benefits of using cases as a teaching tool, and offers suggestions on formats for cases, managing the case assignment, designing case study questions, managing discussion and debate effectively, and using group work.

A Little More Style - Changing the pace of your class by modifying lessons in an effective way to re-capture students attention during the middle of the semester.

 

Classroom Assessment Techniques

Assessment, Evaluation, & Testing - Links to suggests on how to assess various activities from class, as well as how to include students in this endeavor.

Alternative Assessment - Links to alternative assessment techniques where students create a response to a question or task.