Key Takeaways

1. Consider how your face-to-face strategies translate to the online environment.

2. Instructional strategies are techniques faculty use to help students become independent, strategic learners. Active learning strategies and findings from neuro, cognitive, and learning research can help shape effective online learning.
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Instructional strategies focus on ways to approach the facilitation of learning directly in your online course design. It is important to remember that your objectives—not technology—should determine how you approach the online activities and strategies.

Many of the instructional strategies you used in a face-to-face setting can also be used online (group discussions, writing activities, project-based learning, etc.), and these may be the most viable options for Emergency Remote Teaching, as they are relatively easy to translate to the online environment.

For further development, consider how you might incorporate active learning and other evidence-based practices into your course design to further enhance learning, as well as learning strategies based in cognitive and learning sciences.

There has been much research into the connection between neuroscience, brain-based learning, and education. This research further explores how our brains work and learn, and we are able to use various strategies based on these principles to inform our continued teaching and design practices.

Beginner

Review your course learning objectives and use that as a basis for selecting online instructional strategies to employ in your course design.

Intermediate

Determine what types of active learning strategies can be used in your course.

Advanced

Adopt strategies from the neuro, cognitive, and learning sciences into your course design.



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