This article on “social pedagogies” shows how engaging students with “authentic audiences” is crucial for understanding key (and often difficult) concepts in a course.
Review the Bok Center’s guidance on inclusive teaching, which considers how to design your course and facilitate classroom dynamics that encourage an inclusive, welcoming, and caring classroom environment.
A 2009 study found that maintaining flexibility through including online office hours resulted in higher satisfaction than in-person office hours alone.
Owens and Ennis review the literature on the importance of incorporating an ethic of care in the classroom, including three different frameworks for considering the practice.
Another study explores digital blackboard learning software, finding that 80% of students in the study found that it helped them better follow the digital lecture.
This recent study explores the utility of electronic blackboards in STEM classrooms, noting how it can improve visibility and user flexibility for students.
A university faculty/student mentor program used the matched pairs design to evaluate its effectiveness and found that students with assigned mentors generally had higher GPAs, completed more units per semester, and dropped out less. The positive effects of having mentors were independent of the... Read more about Faculty/Student Mentor Program: Effects on Academic Performance and Retention
See more of Bottino’s work at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH), which also hosts a summit and the i3 Innovation Challenge to further encourage students’ creative entrepreneurship.
This program study using social theories of learning to develop best practices for entrepreneurship education found that respecting learners’ identities and making them feel safe in the community of practices is critical to program success.
Bottino and his team’s practices also mirror what Harvard’s Project Zero termed a teaching for understanding framework, which locates topics that students are passionate about and creates goals, experiences, and assessments around them.
