Course Overview
As students in higher education, you have your own mental models of what constitutes effective college teaching. In this class, we’ll build upon your models and enrich them with a foundation to instruction that is both theoretical and practical. This research-based, scientific perspective is intended to help you be able to articulate various theories and approaches to teaching and learning as well as to evaluate the supporting and refuting evidences. In this class, you will be able to discuss, reflect and receive feedback on what is currently known about good college teaching.
Those who think of teaching in higher education as a worthy subject of intellectual engagement will find this class gives ample opportunity to not only question evidence-based instructional theory and approaches, but to also reflect on these issues from a personal vantage point. None of you will come into this class with a blank slate when it comes to teaching and learning. Your perspectives on teaching are firmly rooted in your experiences as a student.
As students in higher education, you have your own mental models of what constitutes effective college teaching. In this class, we’ll build upon your models and enrich them with a foundation to instruction that is both theoretical and practical. This research-based, scientific perspective is intended to help you be able to articulate various theories and approaches to teaching and learning as well as to evaluate the supporting and refuting evidences. In this class, you will be able to discuss, reflect and receive feedback on what is currently known about good college teaching.
Those who think of teaching in higher education as a worthy subject of intellectual engagement will find this class gives ample opportunity to not only question evidence-based instructional theory and approaches, but to also reflect on these issues from a personal vantage point. None of you will come into this class with a blank slate when it comes to teaching and learning. Your perspectives on teaching are firmly rooted in your experiences as a student.