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Resource Overview
Guidelines for Teaching @ MIT and Beyond outlines elements that should be considered when designing, delivering, and assessing educational experiences for students. The resource includes links to research supporting the guidelines and examples of how MIT instructors implement the guidelines in their classrooms.
The guidelines were adapted by the MIT Teaching and Learning Laboratory from the New South Wales' Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching and its associated Toolkit. These resources have now been expanded as a generic Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching website with examples written in a format to encourage other universities to draft their own set of guidelines and examples.
The instructor insights on this page are shared by Darshita (Dipa) Shah, the Associate Director Director of the MIT Teaching and Learning Laboratory (TLL) and Leann Dobranski, the Assistant Director of TLL. Their insights focus on the history behind TLL's adaptation of the guidelines, how the guidelines are useful and support the work of TLL, and how TLL hopes to further adapt the guidelines in the future.
Resource Outcomes
Resource Goals for Instructors at MIT and Beyond
- Gain familiarity with the 18 guidelines informing teaching and learning at MIT
- Find links to research supporting these guidelines
- Explore examples of how MIT instructors implement the guidelines in their classrooms
- Learn how MIT adapted these guidelines from the New South Wales' Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching
- For instructors at institutions beyond MIT: learn how to adapt the New South Wales' guidelines for use at one’s own university
Instructor Insights
The guidelines are grouped into three broad categories: design, delivery, and assessment. (Image by MIT Teaching and Learning Laboratory.)
Below, Dipa Shah and Leann Dobranksi describe various aspects of how TLL developed Guidelines for Teaching @ MIT and Beyond and how TLL uses the guidelines in their work with MIT instructors.
- History Behind TLL's Adaptation of the Guidelines
- Usefulness of the Guidelines for MIT Instructors
- Advantages of Sharing the Guidelines as Hypertext
- Enhancing the Guidelines