1. Designing an Effective Course Curriculum Ponnurangam K (“PK”) Indo-US Workshop on Effective Teaching at College / University Level Feb 10, 2011

2. IIIT-Delhi Who am I? Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Research interests – Privacy and Security in Social Media – Security informatics – Cyber crime – Usable security Teach – Foundations of Computer Security, Fall 2010 – Research Methods, Spring 2010, Spring 2011 2

3. IIIT-Delhi Why Me? Completed Documentation of Teaching Development Program from Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence Included: attending T&L seminars for graduate students, micro-teaching, lecture observation, course and curriculum creation, lecture and homework creation with the solutions Took me about 18 – 24 months to complete 3

4. IIIT-Delhi 4 Inspired by the Documentation program I have little experience in evaluating the topics / concepts myself – I am trying to use it in the courses that I am teaching now Preamble

5. IIIT-Delhi The Golden Triangle for Effective Teaching 5 Learning objectives Instructional activities Assessments

6. IIIT-Delhi Alignment provides consistent structure OBJECTIVES articulate the knowledge and skills you want students to acquire by the end of the course ASSESSMENTS allow the instructor to check the degree to which the students are meeting the learning objectives INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES are chosen to foster student learning towards meeting the objectives 6

7. IIIT-Delhi What is Course Curriculum? A carefully planned, clearly written, comprehensive syllabus about the course Something that is used to promote the course before the course starts 7

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9. What is Course Curriculum? A carefully planned, clearly written, comprehensive syllabus about the course Something that is used to promote the course before the course starts Something that is discussed in the first few lectures of the course – Set appropriate expectations 9

10. IIIT-Delhi Possible components of a Course Curriculum Instructor information Course information Method of instruction / Strategies Course objectives Course calendar or schedule Course policies Textbooks and supplies Evaluation / Assessments Grading policy 10

11. IIIT-Delhi Instructor information Instructor: Prof. PK, pk@iiitd.ac.inpk@iiitd.ac.in TA: Kuldeep Yadav, kuldeep@iiitd.ac.inkuldeep@iiitd.ac.in Office hours: 12.15 – 1.15pm, Mondays Course website: https://sites.google.com/a/iiitd.ac.in/research _methods_spring_2011/ 11

12. IIIT-Delhi Course information Research Methods Credits: 4 WF: 11.30 – 12.50pm Course pre-requisites: 2+ years 12

13. IIIT-Delhi Instruction strategies Lectures Guest seminars Group discussions 13

14. IIIT-Delhi Course objectives The objective of this course is to introduce students to various research methodologies and to provide tools/techniques that can be used to evaluate the research results Students at the end of the course: – Will be able to apply the right research methodology and evaluation technique on a given problem – Will know the components of a research paper and would have written (attempted) one on a chosen problem 14

15. IIIT-Delhi Course calendar or schedule 15 DateActivity / submission / concepts to cover Week 1Objectives & Philosophy of the course, Logistics of the course, Philosophy of research Week 2…. Week 3 …. Week 4 …. Week 5 …. Week 6 ….

16. IIIT-Delhi Course policies Plagiarism and cheating – What is it? Copying HW / exams / code Any content taken from another source without citation – First time caught, zero on that HW / exam – Second time caught will be directed to academic committee – Caught in report, one grade lower 16

17. IIIT-Delhi Textbooks and supplies Lecture notes Research papers Course website 17

18. IIIT-Delhi Evaluation / Assessments Assignments, tests, midterm, and final Group presentations Poster presentation 18

19. IIIT-Delhi Evaluation / Assessments Tentative dates for – Assignments, tests, midterm, and final – Group presentations – Poster presentation Policy for late submissions Policy for missing tests or quizzes 19

20. IIIT-Delhi Grading policy 20

21. IIIT-Delhi Takeaways Effective teaching is alignment of Learning objectives, Instruction strategies, and Assessments It takes a lot of efforts in developing an effective curriculum – Iterative process 21

22. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (“PK”), Ph.D. Assistant Professor Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology New Delhi – 110078 pk@iiitd.ac.in

23. IIIT-Delhi 23 Thank you

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