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Designing an Effective Course Curriculum

Designing an Effective Course Curriculum. Ponnurangam K (“PK”) Indo-US Workshop on Effective Teaching at College / University Level Feb 10, 2011. Who am I? . Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Research interests

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Designing an Effective Course Curriculum

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  1. Designing an Effective Course Curriculum Ponnurangam K (“PK”) Indo-US Workshop on Effective Teaching at College / University Level Feb 10, 2011

  2. Who am I? • Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Research interests • Privacy and Security in Social Media • Security informatics • Cyber crime • Usable security • Teach • Foundations of Computer Security, Fall 2010 • Research Methods, Spring 2010, Spring 2011

  3. Why Me? • Completed Documentation of Teaching Development Program from Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence • Included: attending T&L seminars for graduate students, micro-teaching, lecture observation, course and curriculum creation, lecture and homework creation with the solutions • Took me about 18 – 24 months to complete

  4. Preamble • Inspired by the Documentation program • I have little experience in evaluating the topics / concepts myself • I am trying to use it in the courses that I am teaching now

  5. The Golden Triangle for Effective Teaching Instructional activities Assessments Learning objectives

  6. Alignment provides consistent structure • OBJECTIVES articulate the knowledge and skills you want students to acquire by the end of the course • ASSESSMENTS allow the instructor to check the degree to which the students are meeting the learning objectives • INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES are chosen to foster student learning towards meeting the objectives

  7. What is Course Curriculum? • A carefully planned, clearly written, comprehensive syllabusabout the course • Something that is used to promote the course before the course starts

  8. What is Course Curriculum? • A carefully planned, clearly written, comprehensive syllabusabout the course • Something that is used to promote the course before the course starts • Something that is discussed in the first few lectures of the course • Set appropriate expectations

  9. Possible components of a Course Curriculum • Instructor information • Course information • Method of instruction / Strategies • Course objectives • Course calendar or schedule • Course policies • Textbooks and supplies • Evaluation / Assessments • Grading policy

  10. Instructor information • Instructor: Prof. PK, pk@iiitd.ac.in • TA: KuldeepYadav, kuldeep@iiitd.ac.in • Office hours: 12.15 – 1.15pm, Mondays • Course website: https://sites.google.com/a/iiitd.ac.in/research_methods_spring_2011/

  11. Course information • Research Methods • Credits: 4 • WF: 11.30 – 12.50pm • Course pre-requisites: 2+ years

  12. Instruction strategies • Lectures • Guest seminars • Group discussions

  13. Course objectives • The objective of this course is to introduce students to various research methodologies and to provide tools/techniques that can be used to evaluate the research results • Students at the end of the course: • Will be able to apply the right research methodology and evaluation technique on a given problem • Will know the components of a research paper and would have written (attempted) one on a chosen problem

  14. Course calendar or schedule

  15. Course policies • Plagiarism and cheating • What is it? • Copying HW / exams / code • Any content taken from another source without citation • First time caught, zero on that HW / exam • Second time caught will be directed to academic committee • Caught in report, one grade lower

  16. Textbooks and supplies • Lecture notes • Research papers • Course website

  17. Evaluation / Assessments • Assignments, tests, midterm, and final • Group presentations • Poster presentation

  18. Evaluation / Assessments • Tentative dates for • Assignments, tests, midterm, and final • Group presentations • Poster presentation • Policy for late submissions • Policy for missing tests or quizzes

  19. Grading policy

  20. Takeaways • Effective teaching is alignment of Learning objectives, Instruction strategies, and Assessments • It takes a lot of efforts in developing an effective curriculum • Iterative process

  21. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (“PK”), Ph.D. Assistant Professor Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology New Delhi – 110078 pk@iiitd.ac.in

  22. Thank you

  23. Backup slides

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