Faculty are often searching for practical strategies to make their teaching engaging and impactful. The following information outlines some common teaching goals, along with the active learning ...

The ECTL Certification and Badge Program offers an opportunity for UW instructors to further develop as informed scholars, teachers, and effective educators. This self-directed certification and badge ...

Activities are the experiences that allow students to achieve learning outcomes. These may consist of readings, lectures, group work, labs or projects to name a few. While situations and learning ...

At WMU Teaching and Learning, we strive to empower educators with easy-to-use, off-the-shelf resources designed to enhance your teaching practice. Whether you're looking to design an inclusive course, ...

Last March when classes were swiftly moved to the remote environment, many of us had little time to adapt. In hopes to engage our students in this new environment, we implemented tried and true active ...

Active Learning has been referred to as many things, including “project-based learning” and “flipped classes.” The fundamental premise of active learning is the replacement of passive class time with ...

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies that provide ...

Our students have a great deal of background knowledge that teachers need to activate so that they can learn new content. And students need to be provided with additional background knowledge so that ...

Your beliefs about teaching and learning influence many of the decisions you make as an instructor. Defining your philosophy helps you make thoughtful choices about how you design and teach your ...

When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide—cell by cell—what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that with surprising precision, sending targeted feedback to individual neurons ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What introductory activities are you planning to do, or have done already, with students to begin this highly unusual new school year (specifically—first day, first ...