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 using content from publicly available sources (without alteration) for my own course material academic dishonesty?
I want to develop a course syllabus. I was reading course syllabi from multiple universities in the US, Europe, and Asia that are available online. I have seen diverse syllabus of the course I am ...
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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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The challenge large language models (LLMs) pose to programming-based homework
I teach courses in which, as homework, students implement data analysis algorithms from scratch, apply them to real and simulated data, and then reflect on the results.
As a student in such courses, I ...
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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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Can the terms Alpha/Beta release be applied to an online course?
Alpha and Beta releases are stages in software release life cycle. Could these terms be used to denote the stages of ripeness of an online course?
The background for this question is that I have ...
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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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Are modern-day classes primarily for distillation of knowledge or are they primarily for testing/examination/certification?
This is a philosophical question.
From undergrad (which I did stem), I have noticed that in some classes, the teachers taught the absolute bare minimum, almost like overviews of a topic, often times ...
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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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Best day of the week to hold an exam?
I'm a course instructor and was finalizing my syllabus when I hit a bit of a wall and would love to hear the community's input. If you're teaching a class that meets twice per week, do you prefer to ...
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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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UK - Help me understand the instructions for a teaching position interview (lecture/presentation) (Computer Science)
I applied for a teaching position with a special focus on data science and artificial intelligence, these are the instructions for a presentation I will make:
Assume that the audience is a class of ...
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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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How can I deal with students who try to steer a course (in the online setting)?
I am not a course instructor, but I am a teaching assistant for a large course in STEM in the large US school. I have been soliciting advice from students to improve the course and tutorial for the ...
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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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Course design: basics first or teach "as you go"
I am going to offer an elective course which I am free to design. The topic is a bit special, but we can assume I give a robotics course. I will teach a fair amount of probability theory which I need ...
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