Best Practices

“People will learn best and most deeply when they have a strong sense of control over their own education rather than feeling manipulated by someone else’s demands.”
- Ken Bain, author of best-seller “What the Best College Teachers Do”, Vice Provost for University Learning and Teaching at Montclair University

Between the Bain approach to The Promising Syllabus, Suzanne S. Hudd’s Syllabus Under Construction: Involving Students in the Creation of Class Assignments, or the homegrown approach to creating syllabi like that of the University of Louisville and Michigan State University, every school seems to have some way of helping instructors build better syllabi.  Entire organizations and teams of people have been designated ambassadors of best syllabus practices within a given school. That’s a lot of time, money, and resources.

Syllabus Institute has scoured the web and studied over 2,500 syllabi from over 500 institutions and we think we’ve nailed the essential elements of a good syllabus to form the best practices in syllabus creation. So just send your faculty developers and instructional technologist here!

A selection of schools that have teams dedicated to syllabus training and best practices: