Have an Example of Your Own?
Help us build our Instructional Example Library! We are looking for contributions from higher education instructors across disciplines who use technology to enable evidence-based teaching practices. To learn more and to submit an example, please visit the form page linked below. Thank you for helping us support the field.
Overview
The Instructional Example Library features a wide range of digitally-enabled examples sourced directly from instructors who are using technology to implement evidence-based teaching practices in their courses. These examples focus primarily on math, chemistry, and statistics gateway courses, but are applicable across disciplines.
Start by accessing the Instructional Example Library listing page. You can view all the examples, sort by date created, or alphabetically, and can click through the pages. A search feature is available, particularly helpful for returning to a previously-viewed example. Examples are also filterable by tags, selectable from the left-hand menu.
Each example is tagged in the following ways:
Digitally-Enabled, Evidence-Based Teaching Practices
The eight practices this website focuses on. Examples can be tagged with multiple practices, where applicable. When filtering and searching from the main library page, this is the only tag that will be visible.
Implementation Efforts
The examples are tagged based on the relative effort required to implement them
Light
Plug and play, could be implemented immediately.
Moderate
Requires some learning curve or investment of resources to implement, may require some customization
Substantial
Significant time and resources required to implement, not effective unless heavily customized to your context
Subjects
Examples are tagged with the subjects they are most applicable to, although they can often be implemented across disciplines. This website focuses on math, chemistry, statistics, and other STEM disciplines.
Use Cases
This tag explains the primary use cases for each example. They are:
- Course Design: The process of planning and organizing the structure, content, and delivery methods of a course.
- Assignment: Specific tasks or projects given to students to complete as part of their coursework.
- Lesson Plan: A detailed guide outlining the objectives, materials, and activities for a specific class session.
- Instructional Activity: Engaging exercises or tasks used to facilitate learning during a lesson.
- Assessment: Methods and tools used to evaluate student learning and understanding.
- Formative: Ongoing assessments aimed at providing feedback to improve student learning during the instructional process.
- Summative: Evaluations conducted at the end of a unit or course to measure overall student achievement.
- Equitable Implementation: Strategies and practices ensuring all students have fair and equal access to learning opportunities and resources.