{"id":2639,"date":"2025-12-30T00:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/open-education-seminars-winter-2026\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:53:38","slug":"focus-on-the-learner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/focus-on-the-learner\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on the Learner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #FFFF00\">To be completed by Thursday, June 4.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.learningscientists.org\/blog\/2017\/6\/18\/weekly-digest-64\" target=\"_blank\">Preparing a Learning-Focused Syllabus<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/brocansky.com\/humanizing\/liquidsyllabus\" target=\"_blank\">Liquid Syllabus<\/a> for inspiration about small changes you might make to move further toward learner-centered practices. Also think beyond the syllabus to other course documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post a reflection on the following questions in the comments below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What about your syllabus (or other course documents, assignments) is learning-focused? <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is one change you might make to be more learning focused or learner centered? <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find an example of a policy on your syllabus; insert the phrase \u201cbecause I say so\u201d at the end. How does this change the perspective?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To center our work in learner-centered practices, we&#8217;ll start by examining our syllabi and learn about preparing a learner-centered syllabus or creating a liquid syllabus to promote active-learning and student success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":2641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oer-ztc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oe-seminars-su2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}