Course Planning
Once you establish all the materials you need to start as an instructor, how often should you change your course outline, syllabus, course objectives, etc.?
Hi Jamie,
Good point about the syllabus and course objectives. They should be reviewed after each course to determine if they are current and reflective of what you want to accomplish in the upcoming course. This is the way you remain relevant in your content and delivery.
Keep up the good work.
Gary
Although I agree that the outline, syllabus and objectives should not be changed frequently, I think at first you have to leave it semi-fluid as you utilize it. I absolutely agree not to change it during a course but between courses I think it is essential to evaluate its effectiveness and to refine it until you get to what works.
Course outline should stay current with subject matter. Syllabus perhaps on a yearly basis, and course objectives on par with course outlines. Should course outlines change due to updated technology and/or processes, the objectives need to be modified to suit.
Do not change objectives during the class.
I believe that course content should change as technology changes . We as instructors need to be on the leading edge of our industry to be able to reflect and introduce these changes and updates to easly into the classroom.Also we need to explain why the new information is important and how it will benifit each student in thier feilds of study.
I am a new instructor so I am learning, however, I was a student for a very long time, and the best instructors made changes seldom, they had given it much thought and perhaps had experienced an instructor that changed course outline often, which for students can be counter productive.
