51-907 Pedagogy as Practice
12 units, Carnegie Mellon University
"Pedagogy as Practice" focuses on planning, conducting, reviewing, and revising learning experiences in academic and professional contexts. Meeting weekly throughout the semester, students and I will study learning theories and instructional design approaches, probing their value to design education. Students will investigate traditional and emergent approaches to instruction through readings and discussions situated in the realm of cognitive studies, neuroscience, learning science, instructional design, and educational pedagogy. Students will discuss challenges that are common to design, which they will use to brainstorm ways of effectively addressing obstacles that they are likely to encounter when teaching. Student will apply their discoveries to the design of learning objectives, outcomes, instructional activities, performance measures, formative assessments, and summative evaluations, to create innovative and effective teaching and learning experiences based on a context they define. The course will culminate in the design of concrete teaching plans that may take the form of syllabi, project briefs, class exercises, assessment tools, and evaluation metrics.
Prerequisites: none listed
Offered: Fall 2026, Fall 2025
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