Capstone Project: Designing or Redesigning a University Course
The Capstone Project is a course that allows faculty course participants to use all the knowledge and skills they have acquired in the first 6 TPD pedagogy courses. It brings together this knowledge and these skills with the goal of allowing faculty course participants to design a new course or redesign an existing course that follows current pedagogical theories and methods.
 

 
This course plan will include

• Course overall layout and rationale
• A syllabus
• Unit and lesson plans that include collaborative and traditional teaching/learning activities
• A mixture of educational and traditional assessments
• A plan for providing students formative and summative feedback on their performance

These course designs will include enough detail so that they can be published on the TPD’s website and used/modified by other faculty members. This written assignment, because it will require a lot of effort, can be written by up to 3 faculty course participants working together.

After completing the written assignments for all 7 TPD pedagogy courses, faculty course participants will be awarded with a certificate for completion of the Graduate Program in University Pedagogy.

We trust that all who have taken the TPD’s pedagogy courses will be eager to show what they can do in terms of current university pedagogy and to be recognized for that achievement.

The participants’ course assignments are published on this website to promote sharing of ideas about the course topics. All work is the intellectual property of the writer. As such, any copying of this work, even short sections of the work, is theft and is forbidden.

Participants in TPD courses can read these assignments and communicate with the authors by email or by the course blog. In addition, participants can submit drafts of their assignments to the course trainers or fellow participants for review and comment. Participants are encouraged to revise and improve their work based on this type of communication.

However, all written work submitted by participants as individual assignments must be the original work of the participant. If any participant submits work that is completely or partially copied from any source, they will be failed in the course and their case will be submitted to university authorities for disciplinary action.

If there is any question in the participant’s minds as to what constitutes ‘plagiarism’, they should ask their course trainer, submitting their written work and noting where they got their ideas from. The course trainer will inform the participant if what they wrote is in violation of this policy.

As teachers and participants in pedagogic training, it is important to share ideas and work together at times during the course. However, for individual assignments, this freedom to read and discuss other people’s work comes with the responsibility to act responsibly and honesty.

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