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...public online. Case studies, like books that professors write, would not be included in this category because their authors have a right to profit from their published work. Similarly lecture videos would not be included because making videos public would alter how students behave in the classroom. But syllabi, lecture notes, problem sets and other printed course materials that cannot be published and are already online for students should be made available to the public.HBS’s arrangement with BYU-Idaho, however, falls in a slightly different category because case studies, along with most of the other electronic...
...worried that I won’t be able to save my damsel in time and write my thesis.’” The question of exceptions for thesis writers is routine during shopping period and an official policy on some syllabi. And many professors are willing to be flexible about the dates of midterms and papers. “I don’t think it does any harm to the rest of the students to give those people a bit of a break,” said Professor of Semitic Philology John Huehnergard, who teaches Social...
...With 300 concentrators, the economics department’s advising resources are already spread thin, and reviewing syllabi from classes taught elsewhere would be an added burden, Undergraduate Program Administrator Emily R. Neill said...
Despite questions about its accuracy and criticism on other college campuses, some Harvard professors and teaching fellows have incorporated Wikipedia, the online collaborative encyclopedia, into their syllabi. “I believe Wikipedia is an excellent resource because of how low-cost it makes the process of looking for information,” wrote economics graduate student Reinier A. Schliesser in an e-mail. “When I was looking for readily available materials for our discussion-focused class, I found some of the articles in Wikipedia quite useful.” Schliesser, who teaches the sophomore economics tutorial...
...system would include four data collection strategies: “self-reporting” allowing instructors to add information through an HCBIS account; “bulk upload,” permitting departments to upload textbook information for multiple courses at once; “data mining from syllabi,” requiring the manual input of information from course syllabi; and simple student reporting...