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Welcome to Don't Panic! The Professor's Guide to Great Teaching.  This  course help you design interesting, engaging courses that provide your students with opportunities for truly significant learning.  In this four-week course, you will develop significant learning goals for your students, will learn about and apply authentic assessment practices, and will explore various types of active learning exercises.  We conclude by examining how to structure these activities into a course timeline.As a participant in this course, you will design or redesign the basic structure for a class, and will critically analyze both your course and those of your peers.  Peer interaction is critical in this course--teaching is an incredibly complex process, and our ability to learn from and help each other is critical to becoming even better teachers. On behalf of the staff of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of South Dakota, welcome to this course.  We are glad you are here!  ~ Bruce Kelley, Ph.D.

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