Large Courses: Additional Resources

Large Courses

Looking for more ways to support student success in large-enrollment courses? This collection of research-based resources, book recommendations, and practical tools is designed to help instructors enhance learning, improve equity and motivation, and strengthen their teaching strategies in large classroom settings. Whether you're seeking ideas for assessment, active learning, or inclusive design, these materials offer guidance and inspiration to help you navigate the unique challenges and opportunities of teaching at scale.

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The authors share their own practices and examples for various teaching modalities. The topics cover both course design and teaching strategies to ensure equity is built into the learning experience rather than an afterthought.

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This book offers 50 classroom assessment techniques (CATs) so instructors can assess their teaching goals. The CATs are useful in assessing content knowledge, higher-order thinking skills, and course-related attitudes and values. Many of these CATs can be implemented in less than 5 minutes. As well, the text offers the Teaching Goals Inventory tool for the instructor to identify and clarify instructional goals.

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The authors present a Culturally Responsive Teaching framework and specific strategies to help create motivational conditions for your classroom. Their framework has been researched across diverse cultures and groups and their research illustrates the intersectionality of addressing diversity and motivation through instruction.

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Connects research from cognitive theory to practical strategies for the classroom that help learners retrieve knowledge from memory, use mindful practices to build cognitive skills, and make meaningful connections to content.


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