Dartmouth Events

Designing Resilient Courses

Join this session to explore resilient course design, an adaptive approach to planning courses that are resistant to disruption and agnostic to any particular learning environment.

Tuesday, August 17, 2021
3:00pm – 4:15pm
Zoom - Please register to receive link.
Intended Audience(s): Faculty, Postdoc, Public, Staff, Students-Graduate
Categories: Workshops & Training

Prior to March 2020, it was unimaginable that anything could disrupt the day-to-day lives of our institutions as drastically and suddenly as Covid-19 did. In order to teach a now-remote student body, faculty grappled with the question of what was possible (and what was necessary) to teach courses at a distance. Faculty took on this challenge and made the shift by reworking their courses and employing new teaching strategies in two tireless weeks before the start of spring term.

Now, with the remote teaching requirement behind us and a new academic year ahead, it will soon be possible to return to teaching as we knew it pre-pandemic. While most welcome a return to the familiar classroom environment and plan to bring back strategies and insights gleaned from teaching remotely, the memory of March 2020 still looms large. Many are scanning the horizon and bracing for the next disruption, which now seems to some inevitable.

  • How might we stay pedagogically prepared for the next major disruption?
  • What changes will be needed, and how can we prepare?
  • How might what we’ve learned from remote teaching inform our preparation?

In this session, we will explore resilient course design, which offers an adaptive approach by planning courses that are resistant to disruption and agnostic to any particular learning environment. Join us for a discussion on the principles of resilient course design to consider how you might integrate resilient strategies and practices into your teaching.

Please register: https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/8027393 

For more information, contact:
Elli Goudzwaard

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.