The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning
Teaching in Times of Disruption
From the Sheridan Center
The Sheridan Center offers a variety of free consulting services for members of the Brown teaching community. Approaches include 1:1 meetings, course observations, and early student feedback.
The Sheridan Center makes available a number of recorded presentations and workshops available upon request to the Brown community, on topics such as asynchronous teaching and alternative grading strategies. To view these programs, please complete this brief request form.
Online Resources
This guide offers evidence-based approaches and technology tools for providing efficient and effective student feedback.
For reasons that include weather, travel, or illness, there are times when course plans need to be adjusted. This newsletter offers creative approaches to making these adjustments, through both lower and higher tech means.
The hallmark of asynchronous learning activities is that students do not participate at the same time. This resource provides strategies for asynchronous course design and examples of concrete activities and assignments.
These Digital Learning and Design (Sheridan Center) resources suggest ways to use digital tools like Google, Panopto, Zoom, and Canvas to maintain key teaching and learning functions.
The research is compelling that students learn more in classes that integrate active learning. This Sheridan newsletter offers a variety of opportunities for incorporating active learning into online and remote-accessible environments.
Writing-to-Learn (WTL) activities are often short, low-stakes writing assignments which can be designed as in-class activities or as take-home/at-home assignments. This newsletter offers ideas ideas for implementing WTL in synchronous and asynchronous contexts.
Teaching During COVID
These Sheridan Center reports document innovations that Brown faculty made in the Spring and Fall 2020 terms, as well as student responses to these shifts.