Teaching and Learning Resources
The teaching and learning resources below are constantly updated to reflect the ever-evolving learning environment. You will find helpful categories and sub-links to assist with your course and instructional design, engaging students, teaching, assessment, learning environment structure, maximizing your learning outcomes, and utilizing technology to promote learning. Please contact the TLC for any questions or support. Happy teaching and learning!
Active Learning is meaningful and purposeful student engagement where the students are the central drivers of the learning process.
Providing Learner-Centered Experiences should be the goal of all educators. The key is to identify and implement learning experiences which maximize each student’s learning potential.
Learner Engagement asks the questions:
- What provokes student attention?
- What will motivate or excite the students?
- What will sustain student attention and engagement?
A Goal for All Educators - Identifying ways to maximize each student’s opportunity to learn
"Colleges and universities do demand the creation of new knowledge. But that's not typically the task assigned to most students; for them, education consists of learning about existing knowledge, committing collective memory to personal memory," (Watters, October 23, 2017, EDUCAUSE)
The following resources are organized to follow the recommended planning sequence:
- The learning outcomes
- The methods for measuring learning
- The learning experiences for attaing the stated learning outcomes.
A Quality Matters certified open source opportunity to learn more about effective planning can be accessed via ACUE's Course in Effective Teaching Practices.
Course Design is a critical starting point for facilitating and maximizing student learning. Effective course design provides numerous advantages for both the teacher and learner.
Group Dynamics are always a factor as we constantly work in groups or teams throughout the day. Groups are defined as people interacting within a specified space and time.
Learning Strategies are listed to better support learning including strategies to consider before, during, and after class.
Annie Murphy Paul, for TIME Magazine, writes about the "Secrets of the Most Successful College Students"
or spaces define: who is responsible for the learning; roles in the learning space; how learning occurs; what is learned; and how much, if anything, is learned.
Design is all around us, but much of it could be better, bolder, more elegant. This episode, TED speakers on the essence of good design in buildings, brands, the digital realm and the natural world.
Universally Designed Learning Environments
The context and environment determine what is learned and how it is learned. These strategies and resources help embrace the diversity of the learners in every course.
Effectively Utilizing Your LMS
A Learning Management System (LMS) is a fantastic tool for managing your course, engaging and supporting your students, sharing learning experiences, encouraging interaction and collaboration, track and assess student performance and provide 24/7 access to your course materials and resources. Currently UTHSC uses Blackboard
Tech Tool Opportunities are provided which offer suggestions and ideas to consider when using our Tech Tools.
Why Technology? This page offers information and research on why technology is an integral part of our lives and our teaching and learning.