What Makes a Good Web Syllabus? |
EXAMINING WEB SYLLABI IN YOUR DISCIPLINE
Go to one of the following sites to find syllabi in your discipline or choose from among the various syllabi listed below.
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
Early American History
Bill Friedheim, BMCC
http://socrates.bmcc.cuny.edu/bfriedheim/F02INDEX.HTMModern American History
Bill Friedheim, BMCC
http://socrates.bmcc.cuny.edu/bfriedheim/h125index.htmAmerican History: Civil War to Present
Stanley K. Schultz, Univ. of Madison, WI
us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/
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?
- 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?