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Difficult Conversations Purpose: Difficult conversations often involve charged topics, conflicting values, or emotional reactions. When approached with intentional strategies, these conversations can deepen learning and cultivate studen...
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Community with Asynchronous Students Purpose: Building a sense of community in asynchronous courses can feel like a challenge: students log in at different times, may never meet face-to-face, and can feel disconnected from each other an...
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Trust and Community Building Purpose: Creating community in a course creates student interaction, participation, and academic engagement. This resource offers strategies to build a meaningful classroom environment using class community an...
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Peer Review Purpose: Peer review assignments help students learn to give and receive constructive feedback, reflect on their own work, and deepen their understanding of course content. They can also create a more active and supportive on...
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Case Method Purpose: The case method invites students to analyze real-world or hypothetical scenarios that may involve a challenge, decision point, or complex situation. At Harvard DCE, this method promotes critical thinking, collaboratio...
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Breakout Rooms Purpose: Breakout rooms provide structured opportunities for students to collaborate, reflect, and engage more deeply with course material. At Harvard DCE, where instructors teach adult learners from different parts of the ...
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Group Projects Purpose: Group projects offer rich opportunities for collaborative learning, problem-solving, and real-world skill-building. But it is important to design your project thoughtfully; we have all experienced poorly conceived ...
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HyFlex *HyFlex was Formerly called HELIX Classroom Purpose: Teach your class on campus. Some students will be in the classroom with you and others will join synchronously via Zoom displayed on large classroom monitors. Most classes als...
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Asynchronous Only The DCE Academic Administration chooses courses that they believe are a good fit for the asynchronous only format. They reach out to instructors who are already teaching this course in another online format. How does t...
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Attendance Required Purpose: Your students join you online for synchronous interactive classes at regularly scheduled times. Who is this format for? Instructors who want to extend their impact to students who can’t come to ca...