This session links learning-centered course design strategies to specific rhetorical, pedagogical, and accessibility practices for developing a course syllabus for its primary audience: learners. This co-facilitated presentation will incorporate strategies and principles, practices and examples, and reflection and discussion so that participants might reflect on ways to shape their Fall 2023 learning-centered syllabus as a core course document that is accessible, inclusive, and audience-aware. The target audience is anyone who teaches—whether courses, workshops, seminars, or webinars—either online or in person in a variety of settings.
Ilene Dawn (Ida) Alexander (alexa032@umn.edu) is a teaching-learning consultant and instructor in the Preparing Future Faculty program at the Center for Educational Innovation. Ilene draws on 40 years of teaching experience to work with University of Minnesota system instructors across disciplines in designing learning-centered courses and syllabuses for a broad range of learners and learning spaces.
Khaled Musa (kmusa@umn.edu). As an academic technologist, Khaled consults with faculty and staff about technology tools with a focus on how to create an accessible and inclusive learning environment. Khaled has over 15 years’ experience designing program curricula, teaching computer applications, writing user documentation, and conducting accessibility testing.
Presentation Slides: Links to the various resources referenced throughout the presentation can be found in the notes section of the slides.