How to use the Instructor Guide

In this guide, you will find specific instructions for instructors and students on using the Business Agreements Course Shell.

 

For Instructors

The content of this seminar course focuses on Course Assignments, which are  are organized to enable flexible teaching and learning opportunities for you and your students. For example, consider the different options below:

  1. Import the common cartridge for the whole course into your Learning Management Site (LMS) course site for students to access, or simply share the URL to the Pressbook in the LMS for students to access in your LMS.
  2. We recommend that you create a Pressbooks account through the eCampusOntario Library and clone a copy of the book for a few reasons: 1) you have a copy of the guide that will not change while you teach the course in case of updates;  2) you can customize the book for your particular course, program, or institution (e.g. theme options, logos, etc.) ; and 3) access the Instructor Only Resources.
  3. The Business Agreements course focuses on student completion of course assignments. You can teach the whole course as a ready-made course or use particular assignments (i.e. modules) to enhance an existing course. The materials are particularly suitable for courses using a flipped course delivery, as  students can complete the assigned readings and view recorded video lectures in preparation for live in-class discussion or during virtual office hours,  and apply their learning to examples from business practice.
  4. As you will be teaching with videos recorded by another instructor, we suggest that you frame the pedagogical approach as “co-teaching” or “collaborating” with Prof. Werner Keller of the Odette School of Business and the Law School at University of Windsor, who has many years of experience teaching at the intersection of business and law. Adding your own Instructor introduction video, contact information, and your TA’s information will help personalize and customize the materials to your institutional context.

For Students

  1. Former students “highly recommend” the Business Agreements course. This seminar course was designed to provide experiential opportunities for business and law students. Thus, there is an emphasis on “learning by doing” the assignments prior to class and preparing for class discussions. This is hard work! The assignments are intended to help you reflect and construct meaning individually, articulating your ideas in a concise paper, and  in-class discussions are the vehicle to co-creating knowledge with your peers, which simulate teamwork in workplace settings.
  2. Your instructor may teach this course or sections of this course in your institutional learning management system (LMS) or by using the digital or print-based version of the Pressbook. The latter offers interactive H5P interactions, which you may help you study or prepare assignment submissions (e.g. fillable contract form used for all assignments).
  3. All videos in this course have captions and transcripts available for download to increase accessibility.

License

Business Agreements - Instructor Guide (Original) Copyright © 2022 by Werner H. Keller is licensed under a Ontario Commons License, except where otherwise noted.

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