Introduction, Best Practices for Teaching and Learning

In the course, our goal is to highlight important findings on the nature of learning and teaching that promote student understanding. We also demonstrate how instructors can incorporate these findings to develop their teaching skills and increase learning in their courses. This course is recommended for graduate students, post-doctoral associates, instructors, and professors. It is designed for participants with a variety of interests, backgrounds, and career goals, emphasizing science, technology, engineering, and math fields. Course instructors are Dr. Lourdes Alemán, an educational research scientist and instructor at MIT, and Dr. Alison Brauneis, a postdoctoral associate who focuses on biology education research at MIT. This course was produced by the MIT Office of Educational Innovation and Technology with support from MIT Academic Media Production Services and the support of the Education Development Center, Inc. and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Copyright © 2013, Massachusetts Institute of Technology This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.