Including the Future: Changing Course Culture by Including Students in the Syllabus
Moving from student centered to human centered learning has been a journey formed by feedback: from students, teachers, and inclusion specialists. One of the ways we can shift our classroom culture is to change the way we approach the syllabus. Often called a “contract of the course,” the syllabus document serves many purposes. Erica and Sarah discuss how and why they coach instructors to recenter their course environment to prioritize human interactions by addressing their values and inviting students to participate in building the syllabus document.
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Erica J Hagen has a dream for every design table of the future to include a group of engineers as diverse as our world, improving lives through sound and ethical engineering. To make it so, she works as a higher education change-maker developing instructional practices towards inclusive pedagogy and a passionate advocate for active learning in her role as the Director of the Collaboratory for Engineering Education and Teaching Excellence in the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering. She also makes music, cuts rocks, and builds stories with her family.
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Sara Hagen has a career-long interest in assessment of learning and continuous improvement of curriculum and instruction. Sara taught middle and high school Spanish before joining UW-Madison’s College of Engineering, first as an instructional technologist and now as the Academic Planner and Data Analyst for the College. She works closely with faculty to create new programs and courses, and provides information to support data-empowered decisions. She loves traveling, cooking, learning languages, and playing board games.
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