Resilient Teaching


Definition


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. (Laying the foundation for a resilient teaching community, Inside Higher Ed, May 27, 2020) For the fall, are you designing for "extensibility, flexibility and redundancy?”


Resources with ideas for designing a resilient course:


Worth Weller's YouTube (~11 minutes) Resilient Pedagogy: How to find your students when they are not in the classroom

Some specific strategies for faculty and tips to share with your students for learning in a Hybrid environment

Defining resilient pedagogy (see above) and explaining three themes for getting started

Chronicle article that proposes HyFlex by designing an online course and considering the face to face sessions as enhancements

Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Online Teaching - not a binary decision (Worth Weller short video about adding voluntary synchronous sessions.

An overview of resilient pedagogy and how to begin thinking about it

A blog about ways to think about course design given your strengths and weaknesses and having students more engaged in creating course content.  Reminds us that “Teaching is a practice, not a perfect.” :)!

This one offers specific ideas for designing resilient courses.  She offers discussion/examples for: anticipating foreseeable problems; reducing complexity but using multiple solutions; building in redundancies and building on local resources

A free (unless you want certification, then it's $45.00) course from University of Michigan through Coursera about designing for resilience that is self-paced.