Teaching methods

A fun little side project that I've been working on is out now: "JOY CARDS: Tiny Ways to Infuse Delight into Teaching and Learning" More info and free PDF… | 16 comments on LinkedIn

These small notes & your reflections on them will coalesce into valuable insights about your teaching and your students’ learning process.

No matter how you define participation in class discussions, assessing it is fraught. Should you even do it? And if so, how? This collection details a range of approaches for fostering student participation and engagement, whether or not participation itself is graded.

Imagine you’re at a new, highly recommended restaurant, eager to try what you’ve heard is an exceptional dining experience. As you sit down and open the menu, your excitement dims—you realize it’s a fixed menu with no options for substitutions or alterations. You’re vegetarian, and all the courses feature meat. You speak with the server, […]

Discussions are a staple of interactive teaching, but they require careful planning and intentionality to support learning. Explore how to set discussion goals, develop questions that inspire energetic conversation, and show students how to contribute productively to class discussions.

Classroom discussions help engagement and learning so find out how instructors can get started in facilitating respectful debate among students using a simple framework

Metacognition plays a big role in how well we retain information. With a better understanding of how it works, we can leverage it to improve our learning.

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About this Course Gamification is the key theme for this Learning Center resource 🎲 Designed by one of D2L's Senior Instructional Designers, the Great Brightspace Race takes you on a tour of Canada and D2L’s North American offices as you learn about Release Conditions and how they can be used to tailor your course to each…

Derritt Mason reflects on kindness in teaching and learning before a new academic year starts.

In my mind, there are three great ways to use mind maps in the classroom: 1) mastering a lot of new information in an intro class; 2) going beyond rote learning; or 3) planning an essay, paper, project, or complex assignment, especially in a group

James Lang reads his piece, Working the Gardens of Our Classrooms, on episode 529 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

In today’s episode, we talk about the content of her Minding Bodies book as it relates to perception, specifically the UDL guideline to provide multiple options for student perception which often i…

Peer feedback is when students evaluate the work of their peers and give them suggestions so that their classmates can improve their work.

Seven Corporation grantees define accelerated learning and provide insights for successful implementation

Putting the emphasis on a deliberate, reflective approach that emphasises clear goals and active engagement is a better way to prepare students for teamwork in their future careers, write William Owen and Leah Chambers