At FACT we have developed the Online Syllabus Template Tool (OSTT) to provide instructors developing online courses for higher education with:
- a context-specific syllabus structure consistent with the OAR model
- a sample syllabus that models best practices
- an easy-to-modify Microsoft Word template
The OSTT is an Adobe .pdf file that can be opened in the free Adobe Reader program. Users can navigate in the tool just as they would in a web page by mousing over buttons and clicking. Users can use "show info"/"hide info" buttons to toogle between a pageview that shows the sample language and or a pageview that shows descriptive information.
A download of the OSTT is available here.
Just took a quick look at the syllabus. Within it I noted several objectives. I suggest revising it to say that the listed points are not objectives, but Activities. Objectives state who will do what under what condition to what degree so that the outcomes can be measurably evaluated. How do you measure "understanding"?
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