Incorporating UDL strategies into your teaching can improve student learning, increase mastery of learning ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

Your beliefs about teaching and learning influence many of the decisions you make as an instructor. Defining your philosophy helps you make thoughtful choices about how you design and teach your ...

Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...

Delivery Modes: The formats in which the course is delivered. Teaching Approaches: The strategies used to deliver instruction and facilitate learning. Choosing a teaching approach, or a combination of ...

When Jason Rhode began working at Northern Illinois University’s Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center more than a decade ago, his team’s primary mission was to introduce faculty members ...

Our instructional experts at the Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE) and Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT) support the mission of Innovative Learning by exploring course design with Purdue ...

I spend much of my time working with teachers to improve learning environments in ways that reach all students. In my current position as a universal design for learning (UDL) facilitator, I support ...

The recent emergence of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, such as Open AI’s ChatGPT, has many instructors wondering how access to such a tool may affect student work. AI is a vast field ...

The Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) provides resources and programs to develop thoughtful educators and learners; we introduce and support a broad range of pedagogical practices and effective ...