Fostering Student Persistence and Success

Instructors play a key role in fostering student persistence and success. This video series highlights basic theory and offers specific teaching strategies that tend to promote persistence in students.

Creating Deep Learning Experiences: Helping Students Make Connections

Learn to apply the research regarding knowledge structures of novice learners to the creation of deep learning experiences in both face-to-face and online environments. This video series will help participants gain strategies for helping students process, organize, and apply course content in new ways that help learning stick.

Developing an Effective Syllabus

Students’ perceptions of a course and instructor are shaped by the syllabus. An effective syllabus portrays instructors and learners as partners in the learning process and communicates a plan for learning, as well as a belief in student success. The syllabus can also function as a marketing tool for the course.