Associate Professor of Education Practice
Resilient Teaching Through Times of Crisis and Change
What You'll Learn
- Identify key interactions that we want to facilitate in our courses
- Apply guiding principles of resilient design for learning to develop a course plan
- Discuss ways technology and tools can be used to facilitate interactions in support of learning in fluctuating instructional environments
- Draw inspiration from examples that highlight resilient teaching during the emergency remote teaching phase
4 Modules
20 Hours
5 hrs per module (approx.)
Rating
About Resilient Teaching Through Times of Crisis and Change
Resilient teaching is the ability to facilitate learning experiences that are designed to be adaptable to fluctuating conditions and disruptions. This teaching ability can be seen as an outcome of a design approach that attends to the relationship between learning goals and activities, and the environments they are situated in. Resilient teaching approaches take into account how a dynamic learning context may require new forms of interactions between teachers, students, content, and tools. Additionally, they necessitate the capacity to rethink the design of learning experiences based on a nuanced understanding of context.
The course is designed with higher education faculty, lecturers, and graduate student instructors in mind, but may also be applicable to educators in a wide variety of instructional environments. The course is aimed at participants who may be asked to rethink how they teach in the immediate or near future due to the ever-changing circumstances of the current COVID-19 pandemic. While the creation of this course is motivated by the current crisis, we expect it will remain relevant to instructors who are faced with disruptions and change to their teaching for any number of reasons and must quickly adapt their course designs.
To support learning and reflection, we are introducing a new journaling tool within the course that provides a place for participants to reflect on their own experiences. To support community growth, participants can choose to share their journal entries with the wider course community in an interactive gallery space.
Skills You'll Gain
- Adaptability
- Higher Education
- Instructional Design
- Learning Experience Design
- Planning
- Resilience
- Teaching
What You'll Earn
- Certificate of Completion
- Certificates of completion acknowledge knowledge acquired upon completion of a non-credit course or program.
Welcome Message
Welcome to Resilient Teaching Through Times of Crisis and Change, a course designed for educators adapting to disruption. Learners develop resilient pedagogical strategies that support learning across shifting contexts while emphasizing flexibility, equity, and sustainability.
This abbreviated syllabus description was created with the help of AI tools and reviewed by staff. The full syllabus is available to those who enroll in the course.
Course Schedule
Module 1: Towards a Resilient Pedagogy
- Reading: Welcome to Resilient Teaching Through Times of Crisis and Change
- Video: Welcome to the Course
- Reading: Help Us Learn More About You!
- Video: Introducing the Gamut Workbook Tool
- Reading: Discussion Prompts and Journal Entries
- Reading: Developing Your Resilient Teaching Plan
- Video: A Community Oriented MOOC
- Reading: [Optional] Preparing for Future Disruption: Hybrid, Resilient Teaching for a New Instructional Age
- Video: A Look in Our Rearview Mirror
- App Item: The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning
- Discussion Prompt: Reflecting on Rear View Mirror Experiences with Emergency Remote Teaching
- Reading: [Optional]: Using Metaphors as a Tool for Understanding and Imagining
- Discussion Prompt: [Optional] Metaphors as a Tool for Understanding Resilient Teaching
- Reading: References and Additional Resources
- Reading: Course Syllabus
- Video: The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Teaching
- Reading: 15 Fall Scenarios
- Video: In Conversation with Josh Kim and Eddie Maloney
- Reading: A Deeper Dive into 15 Fall Scenarios
- App Item: Reflecting on 15 Scenarios for Fall
- Video: Further Conversation with Josh Kim and Eddie Maloney
- Discussion Prompt: Unpacking the HyFlex Model
- App Item: Looking at Possible Scenarios through a Lens of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Reading: References and Additional Resources
- Video: A Look Towards the Horizon Line
- Video: Designing for Resilience
- Discussion Prompt: Refining our Definition of Resilient Teaching
- Reading: Imagining a Resilient Pedagogy
- App Item: Connecting Resilient Pedagogy to Your Own Practice
- Reading: Taking Inspiration from Across Disciplines
- Reading: Resilience in Agroecosystems: A Mini-Case by Alison Bressler
- Reading: Resilience in Music: An Interview with Dr. Joe Girard
- Discussion Prompt: More Examples of Resilient Design
- Reading: References and Additional Resources
- Graded: End of Week Knowledge Check
Module 2: Principles of Resilient Design for Learning
- Video: A Systems View of Learning Design
- App Item: Consider Your Teaching Context
- Video: Looking at Courses as Systems
- App Item: Defining the Components of a Course
- Video: [Optional] Using the Illustration of a Slinky
- Reading: [Optional] Connecting the Slinky Illustration to Course Design
- Discussion Prompt: [Optional] Unpacking the Slinky Illustration
- Reading: References and Additional Resources
- Reading: Articulating Course Level Learning Goals and Learning Objectives
- Reading: Learning Objectives Specified Across Six Dimensions
- App Item: Articulating Course Level Learning Goals
- Video: Designing for Interactions
- App Item: Designing for Interactions in Your Course
- Reading: Readings and Additional Resources
- Video: Three Principles of Resilient Design for Learning
- Video: Designing for Extensibility
- App Item: Starting with an MVP
- Video: Designing for Flexibility
- App Item: Considering the Unknowns
- Video: Designing for Redundancy
- Discussion Prompt: Examples of Risk Factors in Course Design
- App Item: Identifying Potential Points of Failure
- Discussion Prompt: Using One Principle of Resilient Design to Inform Another
- Reading: References and Additional Resources
- Graded: End of Week Knowledge Check
Module 3: A Worked Example
- Reading: Introducing Professor Chris Quintana and our Worked Example
- Video: Introducing our Worked Example: Video Games for Learning
- Video: Worked Example: Designing for Interactions
- Video: Worked Example: Designing for Extensibility
- Reading: Resources to Support Designing for Extensibility
- Video: Worked Example: Designing for Flexibility
- Reading: Resources to Support Designing for Flexibility
- Video: Worked Example: Designing for Redundancy
- Reading: Resources to Support Designing for Redundancy
- Video: Worked Example: Putting it All Together
- App Item: Taking a Look at the Resilient Design for Learning Principles as a Whole
- Reading: References and Additional Resources
- Reading: Introduction to Developing Your Resilient Teaching Plan
- Graded: Sharing Your Resilient Teaching Plan
Module 4: Case Studies of Resilient Teaching
- Reading: A Care-Centered Model for Teaching in Times of Crisis and Change
- Reading: Introduction to Case Studies
- Reading: Case Study Profile: Principles of Microeconomics
- Video: Case Study Video Interview: Principles of Microeconomics
- Reading: Case Study Profile: Costume Design 1
- Reading: Case Study Written Interview: Costume Design 1
- Reading: Case Study Profile: Introduction to Electronic Circuits
- Video: Case Study Video Interview: Introduction to Electronic Circuits
- Reading: Case Study Profile: Principles of Software Design for Learning
- Reading: Case Study Written Interview: Principles of Software Design for Learning
- Reading: Case Study Profile: Biomechanics of Human Movement
- Video: Case Study Video Interview: Biomechanics of Human Movement
- Reading: Case Study Profile: Small Jazz Ensembles
- Reading: Case Study Written Interview: Small Jazz Ensembles
- Reading: Case Study Profile: University Band
- Reading: Case Study Written Interview: University Band
- Reading: Case Study Profile: Pandemics & Medicine
- Reading: Case Study Written Interview: Pandemics & Medicine
- Reading: Case Study Profile: Foundational Gross Anatomy
- Reading: Case Study Written Interview: Foundational Gross Anatomy
- Reading: Case Study Profile: Honors Chemistry
- Reading: Case Study Written Interview: Honors Chemistry
- Discussion Prompt: Reflecting on Case Studies of Resilient Teaching
- Reading: References and Additional Resources
- Video: Course Wrap-up
- Reading: Course Feedback
- Reading: Contributor Acknowledgements
- Reading: Expand on your resilient teaching by designing engaging courses for your students.
- Reading: Keep Learning with Michigan Online!
Grading Policy
Learners must earn an overall grade of 80%. There are two knowledge checks worth 25% each and a final Resilient Teaching Plan assignment, and two peer reviews that are worth 50% of your final grade.
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Intermediate Level
Some related experience required
