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Necessary (and Totally Legitimate) Shortcuts for Developing Any College Course

ByErin Ebanks

IMG_0150If you’re a professor, you may be wondering how anyone can possibly manage to start teaching numerous college classes with course content that they’re satisfied when they don’t have a lot of time.

This tends to be the reality for most adjunct professors who pick up various college courses whenever they’re offered, and sometimes teach around 7 classes a semester.

Below are some shortcuts to use for your face-to-face and online classes.

Textbook publisher’s website: The best way to create course content is by going to the textbook publisher’s website. It will have quizzes, lecture slides, and pretty much anything you might need.

SlideShare: You can also access lecture slides at SlideShare (slideshare.net). The other day I was searching Google for lecture slides about Hofstede’s cultural dimensions for class, and most of the options that came up were from SlideShare. I had more than enough to choose from.

Whenever I’m asked to teach a new course at the last minute, the above-mentioned necessary shortcuts are my best friends until I can adjust the course in future semesters and make it my own.

If you’d like to learn more, check in with new posts weekly at happyprofessor.com or take a look at my Kindle ebook, Happy Professor: An Adjunct Instructor’s Guide to Personal, Financial, and Student Success on Amazon.com (if you can find a free copy, that’s cool, too).

Feel free to email me at erin@happyprofessor.com.

 

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