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Teaching Adult Learners Purpose: Harvard Division of Continuing Education (DCE) instructors teach non-traditional adult learners who often balance work, family, and academic goals. These learners bring a wealth of personal and professio...
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Discussion Protocols Purpose: Discussion protocols are structured frameworks for facilitating conversations that give all students the opportunity to participate, reflect, and engage thoughtfully. This resource equips instructors with t...
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Content and Lecturing Purpose: Effective content delivery supports student learning and engagement. This resource provides guidance for choosing, organizing, and delivering course content through interactive lectures. Thoughtful use of ...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...