Effective practice: Learning Effectiveness

Learning community

• Actively Learning Online Human Anatomy
  Rio Salado College utilizes active learning methods to improve learning effectiveness, and faculty and student satisfaction. -- more
  
• Tutorial Instructional Model
  The tutorial instructional model approach, developed by Northern Virginia Community College, builds learner-instructor interaction into the learning process, enabling satisfying levels of interaction between faculty and students. -- more
  
• Student-Led Discussion Build Complex Understandings of Psychology Concepts
  A grading system developed by Herkimer County Community College that rewards thoughtful questions and thorough answers leads to a better understanding of course concepts. -- more
  
• Assuring Connection and Connectivity to Entry Level Students through an Extended, Instructor-Led Orientation Class
  Saint Leo University requires students to take a mandatory eight-week, instructor-led orientation class which assists students with transitional issues, and provides an overview of different support services. -- more
  
• The Mock Trial Project
  University of Massachusetts Lowell offers the Mock Trial Project as a part of an ethics course to get students to think critically about ethical issues. -- more
  
• Using Cohorts to Build an Online Learning Community
  The cohort structure of The Masters of Science in Organizational Behavior (MSOL) ONLINE at Mercy College creates an extensive learning community for the students in this non-resident, 12-month interdisciplinary graduate program by providing opportunities for consistent supportive interactions between students, between online students and the larger Mercy community, between students and instructors, between students and their mentors, and between the instructors themselves. -- more