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  1. Trust and Community Building

    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...
  2. Peer Review

    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...
  3. Case Method

    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...
  4. Breakout Rooms

    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 ...
  5. Group Projects

    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 ...
  6. HyFlex

    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...
  7. Asynchronous Only

    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...
  8. Attendance Required

    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...
  9. Flexible Attendance

    Flexible Attendance Purpose: You teach via Zoom at a regularly scheduled time and your students have the flexibility to join you during class or participate asynchronously. Who is this format for? Instructors who want to extend...
  10. Test Snippets July 2025

    This is the way we roll. In another time's forgotten space Your eyes looked from your mother's face Wildflower seed on the sand and stone May the four winds blow you safely home Roll away the dew. I'll tell you where the four winds dwell In F...