The Graphic Syllabus: Communicating Your Course Creatively Linda B. Nilson, Ph.D., Director Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation 864-656-4542 * [email protected] * www.clemson.edu/OTEI Steven N. Pyser, J.D., Assistant Professor (Practice) Department of Human Resource Management, Fox School of Business (215) 204-4281 * [email protected]
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The Graphic Syllabus:Communicating Your Course
Creatively Linda B. Nilson, Ph.D., Director
Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation864-656-4542 * [email protected] * www.clemson.edu/OTEI
Steven N. Pyser, J.D., Assistant Professor (Practice)Department of Human Resource Management, Fox School of
directly and positively influence student learning and improve business educationvisualize simply for students ambiguity, complexity and connections between course content and your design(re)capture your passion for learning and link subject matter expertise with the energy and momentum of the Fox School
"Too much light often blinds gentlemen of this sort. They cannot see the forest for the trees."
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to communicate the topical organization of your course to your students by designing a “graphic syllabus.” In doing so, you will also facilitate their learning of the course material.
Can you relate?
Syllabus Review: Foundation for Students Evaluations
Will they be under/overwhelmed??
Applied Pracademics (Practice/Academics)
real-world practice and research driven academics (combining rigor AND pragmatism)infuse critical thinking, problem solving and decision making into the daily thinking of business students and class interactionsengender understanding → content mastery → with a context to simulate "real-world" business environment students experience after graduation
Visual Graphic Syllabus and Communication PerspectiveWhat are we making together?How are we making it?What are we becoming as we make this?
How can we make better “social worlds” through histories, futures, and networks of classroom relationships?
http://www.cmminstitute.net/
Education as “Social” Experience
Social capitalinstitutions, relationships, norms that shape quality and quantity of a society's social interactions.social cohesion is critical for societies to prosper
Social worlds (CMM)allows faculty and students fertile ground to learngraphic syllabus is visual communication create synergies between human and academic sides of the classroom to build learning communities
Text syllabi fail because they:1. depict a complex structure of knowledge--a network of topics, concepts, and principles--as linear; and 2. require familiarity with the terms, which students lack, to understand.
BLAH 300: “Something I Gotta Take”
Week 1: Overview of Something I Gotta TakeWeek 2: The Composition of Apple PeelWeek 3: Introduction to Giraffe ConsciousnessWeek 4: Cooking with Sugar and EggsWeek 5: Sugar and Eggs continuedWeek 6: The Modern Car: The CarburetorWeek 7: The Modern Car: Seat BeltsWeek 8: Advanced Giraffe Consciousness,
Introduction to PineapplesWeek 9: The Relationship between Pineapples
and Buses etc., etc., etc.
How Some Students See a Syllabus
Why Design…? continued
Learning styles: visual, kinesthetic, concrete, holistic/global, “Divergers,” “Intuitive Feelers”Better retention & retrieval of material received 1) in two modalities and 2) visually (more efficient, less working memory and fewer cognitive transformations)“Big picture” of key concepts and their interrelationships; ready-made structure for knowledge processing and storage
Why Design…? continued
Model tool for enhancing cognitive activities involving memory, planning, and organizing.
For students: note-taking, outlining, problem solving, and organizing & summarizing material For you: re-examine and tighten your course design …
and have some creative fun!
Graphic Syllabus
= flowchart, diagram, or picture showing the organization of and interrelationships among your course topics – that is, how your course structures the subject matter and its body of knowledge.