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.
A summary from Carleton College’s Pedagogy in Action outlines benefits to student learning and offers strategies for effective interdisciplinary teaching.
Canvas enables instructors to import content from existing course sites for use in new course sites (importing content from another instructor’s site requires the help of local academic support staff).
Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Teaching and Learning Lab offers a number of case-studies on gathering and implementing student feedback, including during a course.
Researchers explored collaborative curricular design as a form of instructor professional development, identifying three key process features: situatedness (how closely related the task is to the instructor’s work or class); agency (if they are actively involved in problem definition and...
Researchers describe and analyze a model for developing student–staff partnerships to enhance teaching and learning, where students act as consultants providing timely and focused feedback to instructors on aspects of their practice, finding that face-to-face follow-up meetings produced the best...
The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School developed a series of questions to assist instructors in planning effective courses
In a study conducted at the University of British Columbia, Deslauriers and colleagues found that instruction of a large-enrollment physics class taught using the concept of “deliberate practice,” based in constructivism and formative assessment, resulted in increased student...