Best Practices

Armstrong is committed to integrating best practices into teaching, learning, and engagement.  Links relating to best practices will be updated on a regular basis. The Office of Online & Blended Learning also provides workshops and presentations on best practices throughout the academic year. 

General

• Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
  
• Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever
• Learning Princlples
  
• Teaching Principles
• Online Learning Tips
  

Adult Learners

• Adult Learners & Youth Leaders
• Tips for Teaching Adult Students Online
• Tips on Training Adult Learners

Brain-Based Learning & Neuorplasticity

• Brain-Based Learning
• Learning & The Brain
• The Heart-Brain Connection: The Neuroscience of Social, Emotional and Academic Learning

Backward Design

• Chapter 1. What Is Backward Design? Understanding by Design? by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
• Solution Tree: Jay McTighe on the Backward Design Framework

Bloom's Taxonomy

• Bloom's Taxonomy
• A Model of Learning Objectives
  

Pedagogy & Andragogy

• Pedagogy vs Andragogy
• Andragogy

Teaching & Learning

• Learning & Teaching
• Learning & Teaching Styles
• The Myth of Learning Styles