How can I keep teaching during periods of high absenteeism or campus closure?
This guide is designed to help instructors adapt their teaching in times of emergency. With a combination of IU-supported technologies, including email, phones, Oncourse CL, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Presenter, Adobe Connect, and lynda.com, instructors can recreate an effective learning environment even with minimized face-to-face class time.
Regardless of teaching styles or techniques, effective learning environments encourage: student-instructor contact, cooperation and reciprocity among students, active learning, prompt feedback, time on task, communication of high expectations, prompt feedback, and respect for diverse talents and ways of learning (Chickering and Gamson, 1987).
This guide should help instructors match their teaching techniques with IU-supported technologies, learn about the technology, and know where to turn for help from a consultant. Follow the links below to pages dedicated to specific teaching techniques:
- Lectures
- Discussions, including case-study, project, and problem-based learning discussions
- Collaborative learning and group activities
- Readings and other resource media
- Demonstrations, including audio, video, and screen captures
- Feedback and self-assessment/mastery
- Submitting work of all types
- Holding office hours
