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Welcome to the Wikispace for - The Course Syllabus: Learning in a Nutshell*
__The Project__ This project brought together faculty and educational developers from Wilfrid Laurier University and Lakehead University to collaborate on investigating ways faculty and students conceptualize and utilize course syllabi. The research consisted of three componenents.
 * 1) an item analysis of undergraduate and graduate course syllabi
 * 2) a content analysis of learning objectives from a select grouping of syllabi from the item analysis
 * 3) a survey of undergraduate and graduate students

__Project Goals__ The overall aims of the project included the following.
 * 1) Determine how students use and experience faculty use of syllabi in their courses, accounting for differences in student gender, age, and cultural background.
 * 2) Identify what faculty include in their syllabi and how they represent and communicate their conceptualization of learning.
 * 3) Identify what students attend to most in syllabi and if what they attend to changes during the term.
 * 4) Identify if and how syllabi content differs by degree status (undergraduate/graduate), program standing (first year/senior student), discipline, institution, level of faculty teaching experience, and faculty’s gender.


 * Funded by the EDC = Educational Developers Caucus ([|www.edcaucus.com]) Grant Program and the ID = Instructional Develoment ([|www.wlu.ca/edev]) Grant Program at Wilfrid Laurier University. In-kind support from both institutons (staff support/money/supplies/office space/software) was also provided.