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50 Alternatives to Lecture

Looking for techniques to replace lecture in your online class? Ever feel like you might be talking too much and not hearing student voices enough? Want to make your course content more student-centered, active, inclusive, and/or interactive?

Active Learning

One of the most powerful strategies in all of education, Active learning allows interaction with the content, classmates, and instructors in ways that allow students to negotiate meaning, engage higher order thinking skills, and investigate concepts.

Active Viewing Strategies

To optimize students' use of the media linked in your courses, you want to examine the way they view and experience video content.

ADA Compliance for Online Course Design

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ensures equal access for people with disabilities in all areas of life, including online spaces. For online course creators, this means designing content that is accessible to everyone.

AI in your Classroom

Whatever their views on AI in education, instructors have experienced the tectonic effect of this continuously evolving technology. To continue the work for student success, we recommend faculty do the following

Authentic Assessment

Authentic assessment strives to measure student knowledge in as realistic application of the course materials as possible and often involves a degree of active learning or project based learning.

Collect Feedback from Students - Why, When, and How

Get tips on how and when to check the pulse of your class. Discover what parts of your course are most effective

Design for Findability

Findability refers to the ease with which students can locate course materials and tools. It's easier than you think to accidentally hide course elements from students. Learn how to increase findability to help students succeed.

Design Strategy - Chunking

Design for learner success by applying "chunking" to your lessons and content. Chunking is based on cognitive psychology and memory science and aims to maximize retention of information. While all do it to some degree intuitively, this page will explain how to chunk your class for optimized learning.

Designing Classroom and Online Activities

Make hybrid learning more effective by learning which types of activities work best during in-class time and which are best for after-class online learning for students in hybrid classes.

Hybrid Course Tips

Get quick tips on the best way to coordinate your face-to-face and online activities in a hybrid course so challenging activities, those that require higher cognitive behaviors, take place in the classroom under your guidance.

Instructional Strategies and ESL Audiences

A quick list of instructional strategies to help ESL students more easily understand course content

Introduction to Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT)

Learn how to open your classroom to diverse perspectives through Culturally Responsive Teaching

Introduction to RSI

Learn what Regular and Substantive Interaction is and why it's critical to online courses.

Introduction to UDL

What is UDL? Learn the key principles and philosophy of Universal Design for Learning crucial for applying UDL to your course design.

Key Strategy - Group Work

Avoid assigning busy work. find out how to make group work *work for you and your students

Key Strategy - Online Discussions

Learn best practices and tips on how to plan, structure, participate in, and grade your online discussions.

Key Terms and Concepts - Instructional Design

Learn about terms related to the pedagogy (andragogy) of online learning and learners.

Making Assignments work for Students

Where do students submit their papers and other work? If you are wondering how students submit assignments in Blackboard...

OER - Open Educational Resources

Looking for an alternative to pricey textbooks? Explore open educational resources (OER)

Plan your Course Assessments and Feedback

Tips on planning out the graded activities you use in your course and the feedback you provide to students.

Reading Success Strategies

Before, During, and After strategies for reading success.

Scaffolding Online Student Learning

Scaffolding generally can be thought of as a method of sequencing instructional content so that learners acquire knowledge that will help them approach the next learning materials in the sequence.

Using Videos Online

How long should my online videos be? Where can I find existing videos? What can I do in a video other than lecture?

Vary Instructional Delivery

Maximize learning by including varied textual and visual content

Varying Assessments

Incorporate principles of Universal Design for Learning to give students a variety of formats to express what they've learned