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Course Design

Effective teaching begins with effective course design, which takes advantage of the growing body of research about how people learn. For a thorough treatment of the course design process, go to the Cutting Edge pages on Designing Effective and Innovative Courses, which include a Course Design Tutorial and a Course Goals and Syllabi database. NOTE: Each of these links opens in a new window, because they take you off of the Cutting Edge "Early Career" Teaching pages, to the Cutting Edge "Course Design" pages.

Syllabus for a planetary geology course. Image courtesy of Barb Tewksbury.

Another outstanding resource for anyone designing an Earth Systems Science course is the Design Guide for Undergraduate Earth System Science Education (more info) . It includes an extensive collection of exemplary Earth System Science modules, sections on the scientific framework for Earth System Science and on data, tools, and models, and much more.


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