HomeBlogPodcasts Students’ Experiences with the Syllabusby Jessie L. MooreDecember 18, 2025 Share: Section NavigationSkip section navigationIn this sectionPodcasts – Home 60-Second SoTL Limed: Teaching with a Twist Making College “Worth It” Special Series First-Year Seminars Land Acknowledgement 60-Second SoTL – Episode 65 What if most syllabus “best practices” are built on limited evidence or studies with inauthentic contexts for how students experience these course documents? This episode features on open-access article that explores students’ experiences with syllabi they’re actually encountering in their courses. Read the full article: Pliego, Diego, and Abby Kaplan. 2025. “Community College Students’ Experiences with the Syllabus: A Qualitative Study.” International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 19 (2): Article 10.https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2025.190210 View a transcript of this episode. Show Credits This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Jessie L. Moore, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Professor of Professional Writing & Rhetoric. 60-Second SoTL is produced by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University. Music: “Cryptic” by AudioCoffee. Image in episode art is by DC Studio on Freepik. Explore Related Resources Designing Learner-Centered Syllabi 60-Second SoTL – Episode 1 This week’s episode explores how syllabus design can impact students’ motivation and their perceptions of the course and instructor. The episode features two recent publications from the open-access International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching… Student Engagement with Video Syllabi 60-Second SoTL – Episode 40 This week’s episode features an article from College Teaching and explores whether video syllabi impact how students engage with syllabus content: Kerrigan, John, and Christina Bifulco. 2023. “Syllabus 2.0: Using Videos to Make the Syllabus Active.” College Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2023.2208817 View a…
