Learning Activities
Best Practices
The purpose of Learning Activities is to facilitate learner interaction and engagement with the course content, with their peers, and with their instructor.
Active learning activities promote learner success.
- Align Learning Activities with stated Learning Objectives.
- Provide detailed guidelines, instructions, or directions for different learning activities.
- Use rubrics to communicate clear expectations as well as grading criteria.
- Design activities that enhance learner interaction and engagement.
- Integrate opportunities for self-assessment and peer review throughout the course.
- Encourage opportunities for learner autonomy and reflection.
Resources:
- General Standard 5, Quality Matters Higher Education Rubric, Sixth Edition
- Interactive Classroom Activities, Brown University
- Student-Centered Remote Teaching: Lessons Learned from Online Education
- Active Learning
- Icebreakers for the College Classroom
- Getting Your Students to Engage with Course Readings
- Improving Breakout Room Discussions in Online Teaching by Using Collaborative Documents
- 10 Tips for Effective Online Discussions
- Teaching Outside the Classroom, Vanderbilt University
- Community-Based Learning: Service Learning, University of Illinois
- Project-Based Learning: Teaching Guide, Boston University