Course Co-Design and Classroom Experience

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Week 3 - Syllabus Completion, Assignment Creation, and the Paradox of Choice

Giving students choices and the opportunity to co-design a course sounds like a great idea in theory. But what happens when you give them too much choice, and they are not in the position of make informed decisions? How do we avoid stress and anxiety around choosing when they don’t know why they are choosing one thing over another? Read about how we tackled the ‘paradox of choice’ in designing assignments and coming up with a final syllabus at the end of Week 3.

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