Guidelines for Teaching @ MIT and Beyond

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Guidelines on Teaching @ MIT and Beyond* is a web-based resource describing evidence-based practices for the design, delivery, and assessment of teaching and learning experiences for students. Quotes from the literature are used to describe each guideline, and additional supporting literature and examples of each guideline in action at MIT are provided.

Guidelines for Teaching @ MIT and Beyond is the MIT Teaching and Learning Laboratory’s adaptation of the Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching originally created and published by the University of New South Wales.

*NOTE: This site has not been updated since 2016 and will no longer be updated with more current research.

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Teaching and Learning Laboratory (TLL). RES.TLL-01 Guidelines for Teaching @ MIT and Beyond. Spring 2016. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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