Like many faculty members, I approach my syllabus before a new semester begins with some trepidation: Do I need to add anything new? Usually the reasons for inserting additional language are quite ...

It’s almost time for everyone’s favorite week of the semester — syllabus week. The first week of classes is like a peace offering. It is the one time in the semester you are guaranteed free time to ...

syllabi could learn a trick or two from GitHub. GitHub is a repository for open source code that supports version control . . . . What this means in plain terms is that developers can share code using ...

With every new college semester, students are faced with multiple syllabuses outlining the subjects in their classes.But do students read them thoroughly? One Tennessee professor put it to the test.

Screenshot from the Open Syllabus Project's "graph" of assigned texts in its millions of syllabi. What if you could map every book and article assigned in college courses around the world and see ...