Trends for Teaching and
Learning
Reflections and Perspectives

Trends and Engagement
How can all students be engaged in the
learning process?
It’s more than merely entertaining them,
it’s more than keeping them active in the
process. Is engagement something that
can be designed?

Trends and Student
Engagement
In an attempt to get students engaged or
involved, instruction must be focused, or
learner-centered.
Students need to develop ownership for
engagement and faculty need to shift
engagement to the student.

Designing Engagement
Engagement can be a part of curriculum
design:
Multiple modalities, multiple medium
Multiple opportunities, multiple forms of
assessment

Trends and Technology
What role does or should technology have in
engaging students?
Can technology be used to reduce the digital
divide?

Trends, Technology and
Education
Technology should compliment instruction
Technology should extend instruction
Technology should support instruction

Trends and Collaboration
Given the desire to promote collaboration, is
technology a natural vehicle for
collaboration?

Collaboration Trends
with Technology
Shared workspaces
Wikis, Blogs
Focus use of technology around curricular
event, and not curricular event to technology
Case-study, Problem-Based Learning as
examples

Shifting Trends
Trends for technology in teaching and
learning:
New focus for teaching
New acceptance and acknowledgment of
new learners and learning styles
Emergence of new and adopted
technologies require new or modified
pedagogies