ABSTRACT
Teaching a new course or reworking an existing course typically involves considerable time and effort. Although an instructor knows the subject and understands issues of teaching and learning, students have both experience and perspectives that can greatly enhance the course-development process. This chapter discusses an approach of student-faculty collaboration; an instructor's role is five fold and involves: providing initial background and perspective, organizing students into productive teams, mentoring and coaching, establishing a review process, and reviewing final products. Discussion follows for each of these points. Altogether, multiple student groups, working in parallel, require an instructor to guide, mentor, and review. Students working in pairs in parallel can produce a substantial body of material in a form sufficient for use in the class under development. Overall, student-faculty course development allowed the author to completely rework a course from scratch, adding an application theme, reorganizing content, rethinking labs and projects, etc.
