Are you an instructor looking to elevate your teaching methods and engage your students more effectively? The key to creating a dynamic, impactful classroom experience starts with your syllabus or course outline. As a seasoned expert (see bio below) and having provided feedback on countless syllabi/course outlines, I will ensure that your document is learner-centered and focussed on supporting students’ learning.
Why is Syllabus/Course Outline Feedback Important?
- Enhanced Clarity: Ensure that your learning outcomes, expectations, and assessments are clear and understandable to your students.
- Improved Engagement: Learn how to make your syllabus/course outline more engaging and interactive, capturing your students’ interest from day one.
- Inclusive and Accessible: Receive tips on making your syllabus inclusive, catering to diverse learning needs and backgrounds.
How It Works
- Register for feedback: Below, register to receive feedback. Upon registration, I will send you payment information and how to submit your syllabus/course outline.
- Review Process: Within two weeks, I will analyze your syllabus/course outline and prepare a report.
- Receive Feedback: You will receive a comprehensive report highlighting strengths, areas for improvement, and actionable recommendations, with a particular focus on your learning outcomes, and if your assessment and instructional strategies are aligned with your learning outcomes. In addition, you will receive our comprehensive guide titled: Learner-Centered Syllabus Framework, to guide you for all future syllabi/course outline development.
- Revise and Implement: Use the feedback to refine your syllabus/course outline and enhance your teaching strategy.
Cost:
$100.00 CAD or $75.00 USD per syllabus/course outline
To register to receive expert feedback on your syllabus/course outline and the comprehensive guide Learner-Centered Syllabus Framework, please fill out this form:


Cynthia Korpan, PhD
Director
ITeach: Certification in Higher Ed Inc
About me
I have over 18 years experience in Educational Development in Higher Education and over 35 years related to workplace learning. As the former Director of Teaching Excellence at the University of Victoria, I garnered significant experience in developing programs and courses, teaching undergraduates, graduate students, and professors, and mentoring many about learning and teaching in higher education. In 2017, I was honoured with the Educational Developers Caucus Leadership Award for my national work related to educational development. My research focuses on early career academics’ first teaching in the academic workplace. This work and my expertise has been and continues to be shared with institutions around the world, such as Canada, the United States, China, Uganda, Pakistan, and Ghana.
Testimonials:
The courses I have taken from Cynthia have provided me with a theoretical foundation that I use to better understand how to design classroom environments that promote learning. That foundation gives me an improved capacity to articulate pedagogical concepts so that I can perform effective literature searches to continuously improve my own teaching methods. Being able to engage literature effectively then gives me more confidence to take risks and evolve my courses at a faster rate.
Former faculty member student
Dr. Korpan is very skilled in online teaching and learning, using many effective options for learning in that environment and was able to give fulsome and helpful feedback to all students. Cynthia’s knowledge of learning and teaching in university settings is extensive. Her skills as an educator ensures that her courses and classes are organized, interesting, interactive, and engaging.
Peer colleague
Cynthia is a great instructor. Very knowledgeable about the subject matter. Good choices for assessment. Highly student–centered (i.e., not lecture–based) course activities. One of the best courses that I have taken or observed. Overall, she is a fantastic instructor and role model for teaching.
Former graduate student
Dr. Korpan is a delight to work with and is genuinely sincere, open, and considerate. She brings extensive research experience to her work and simultaneously helps others thrive in their own teaching and scholarship of teaching. Above all else, she understands educational excellence from a variety of perspectives: her extensive understanding of the research in the field; her own research studies and editing experiences; her program-building capabilities; and her hard work and innovation.
Peer colleague
