Guides: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Learning &amp; Psychology

Learning and Psychology

The guided section will provide information on implementing diverse teaching strategies that accommodate all learning styles that promote knowledge acquisition and knowledge. Resources are divided into sections on:

Learning Centered

Reflective Practices

Theories of Learning

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Welcome to the Learning & Psychology Guide

Resources below discuss:

Active Learning

Collaborative and Cooperative Learning

Motivation & Engagement

Active-Learning Classrooms Put Students Front and Center
Ed Tech Magazine, Focus on Higher Education (May 2018).
Active learning in the digital age classroom
Active Learning with Richard Felder
A 12-minute video on YouTube in which Dr. Felder explains what active learning is and why it works and shows several illustrative clips of its use in a 125-student engineering class.
Center for Teaching Excellence- MIT
The following curated video list provides information on active learning techniques
Creating Partnerships: Active Learning in an Engineering Class.
A 35-minute video on YouTube containing clips of Dr. Felder using active learning in a large class, with narration by Dr. Felder and Dr. Rebecca Brent and post-course comments from several of the students about the impact of the teaching method on their learning.
Getting Started with Active Learning Techniques
The link from Cornell University provides information on ways to get started with Active Learning Techniques.
MIT Technology Enabled Active Learning
Promoting active learning : strategies for the college classroom
Using the PAIR-up Model to Evaluate Active Learning Spaces
Information on the EDUCAUSE PAIR-Up Model.

Resources below discuss:

Reflect on one's own actions

Engage with the process of learning

Becoming a critically reflective teacher, Second edition
A practical guide to the essential practice that builds better teachers. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher is the landmark guide to critical reflection, providing expert insight and practical tools to facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique.
Beyond reflective practice : new approaches to professional lifelong learning
Reflective Practice and Writing- Purdue University
Reflective Practice Journal
The link provides information and back issues for the Reflective Practice Journal.
Reflective Practice Protocol Implementation Guidebook An Option for Evaluating Highly Effective Teachers
Reflective practice sample questions
The link provides sample questioning on reflective teaching practices
Reflective practice to improve schools : an action guide for educators
Reflective Teaching- Yale University
Resources for Reflective Practice- College of Policing
Successful teacher education : partnerships, reflective practice and the place of technology
Teaching Effectiveness- Reflective Practices
The link from DePaul University provides information on how to teaching effectively through reflective practices.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

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Learning and Psychology

Welcome to the Learning & Psychology Guide

Active Learning

Collaborative and Cooperative Learning

Motivation & Engagement

Resources below discuss:

Reflect on one's own actions

Engage with the process of learning

Resources below discuss the learning theories:

Behaviorism

Constructivism

Cognitivism

Connectivism