Establishing a Productive Learning Environment
A learning environment is a space (virtual or material) of social interactions where learning occurs. It brings the instructor, the learners, the subject, and the learning technologies together. Social and emotional dynamics of this environment can impact performance, improve student motivation, achievement, and satisfaction.
- A personal welcome message in online classes can help “humanize” online teaching by establishing instructor presence and set a positive tone for interaction.
- Creating positive classroom climate
Embracing Diversity in Your Classroom
- Inclusive Teaching: Evidence-based Teaching Guides
- Knowing When to Teach Current Events
- Reducing Stereotype Threat: Strategies for Instructors
- Inclusive Teaching Activity: Complete Identity Wheel
- Tool: Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages They Send
- Creating Inclusive Classroom Environments: Addressing Implicit Bias, Microaggressions & Exclusion
- Resources: Embracing Diversity in Your Classroom
- Resources: Teaching and Learning in the Diverse Classroom
Inclusive Teaching Strategies
- How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive
- Who Needs an Accessible Classroom?
- Rutgers Course Accessibility Guidelines
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Training Course (rutgers.edu)
- Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, Penn State Inclusive_Teaching_Strategies (psu.edu)
- University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) Inventory-of-Inclusive-Teaching-Strategies-Update-Draft.pdf (umich.edu)
- Evidence-Based Inclusive Teaching Strategies Brown University
- Carnegie Mellon Eberly Teaching Center GroundRules (cmu.edu) for expected behaviors in the classroom
- Diversity and Inclusion Syllabus Statements | Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning | Brown University
Using active learning strategies
Active learning is a broad term that refers to a variety of teaching methods that involve students as active participants in their own learning. Incorporating active learning strategies that require higher cognitive engagement can improve student learning.
- Active Learning Rutgers Digital Classroom Services
- Active Learning Cheat Sheet
- A Spectrum of Active Learning Strategies
- Examples of Activity Based Learning (ABL)
- Student-Centered Teaching Methods
Read more:
- Active learning: “Hands-on” meets “minds-on” (science.org)
- 20 Collaborative Learning Tips and Strategies for Teachers
- Group Work: Design Guidelines
- Assessing Group Work
- The Art and Science of Successful Online Discussions
- The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies
- Create Effective Discussion Prompts
- Simple Techniques for Applying Active Learning Strategies to Online Course Videos (facultyfocus.com)
- 7 Things to Know About Assessing Online Team-Based Learning