This elective teaches a single, high-impact pedagogical practice: inviting students to collaboratively annotate the course syllabus as an act of shared inquiry, community building, and course co-design. Developed and publicly modeled by Remi Kalir since 2018 and adopted by hundreds of educators across institutions, it is one of the most accessible entry points into social annotation for teaching.
Designed for: Educators at any level who create course syllabi
Understand the pedagogical rationale for annotating course syllabi with students
Apply four guiding principles for effective syllabus annotation
Prepare a syllabus for collaborative annotation using accessible technology
Facilitate a syllabus annotation activity with students or peers
Respond to student annotations with care, flexibility, and pedagogical intentionality
Complements Course 2 (Reading Together Online) and Course 4 (Building Knowledge Together). The most immediately actionable elective in the Academy.