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Teaching and Learning: Relevant Keywords

This guide will assist you in conducting research for projects and grants related to teaching and learning.

How to Use Keywords

Acclimatizing yourself to a new academic discipline can be challenging, especially when you're unsure of how your concept is defined by the discipline. Check out the list of keywords related to teaching and learning to bridge the gap between your research topic and this discipline, and to help you verbalize and research your topic more effectively. 

Search keywords by letter: 

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W

 

A

  • Academic development
  • Academic integrity
  • Accessibility
  • Achievement
  • Action research
  • Active learning
  • Activities
  • Adult learning
  • Andragogy
  • Anxiety
  • Apps
  • Assessment of learning
  • Assignments
  • Assistive technology
  • At-risk students
  • Attention
  • Attitude
  • Authentic Assessment

B

  • Beliefs
  • Blended courses
  • Blended learning
  • Bloom's taxonomy
  • Bottlenecks
  • Building community

C

  • Case method
  • Case study research
  • Challenge
  • Change management
  • Class size
  • Classroom design
  • Classroom management
  • Cloud-based tools
  • Cognitive development
  • Collaborative learning
  • Collaborative research
  • College
  • Communication
  • Community service learning
  • Concept maps
  • Conceptions of learning
  • Conceptions of teaching
  • Confidentiality
  • Construction of knowledge
  • Constructive alignment
  • Constructivism
  • Contract grading
  • Co-operative education
  • Counselling
  • Course design
  • Course evaluations
  • Course outline
  • Critical pedagogy
  • Critical thinking
  • Culture
  • Curriculum
  • Curriculum design

D

  • Debate
  • Decoding the disciplines
  • Degree-level expectations
  • Disabilities
  • Disciplinary thinking
  • Discussions
  • Distance learning
  • Distributed testing
  • Diversity

E

  • Educational development
  • Educational technologies
  • E-learning
  • Employability
  • Epistemic beliefs
  • Essay
  • Ethics
  • Evaluation
  • Evidence-based
  • Examples
  • Exams
  • Expectations
  • Experiential education
  • Experiential learning
  • Explanations
  • Extrinsic motivation

F

  • Faculty development
  • Failure
  • Fairness
  • Feedback
  • Flipped classroom
  • Formative feedback

G

  • Game-based learning
  • Gamification
  • Gender
  • Goals
  • Grades
  • Graduate attributes
  • Graduate students
  • Group work

H

  • Hybrid courses
  • Hybrid learning

I

  • Inquiry-based learning
  • Instructional design
  • Instructional technologies
  • Instructors
  • Instructor-student rapport
  • Intellectual development
  • Intelligence
  • Interactive learning
  • Interactive teaching
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International students
  • Internationalization
  • Internet
  • Internship
  • Interpolated testing
  • Intrinsic motivation
  • Inverted classroom

K

  • Knowledge
  • Kolb's learning cycle

L

  • Laboratory
  • Language
  • Large classes
  • Leadership development
  • Learner characteristics
  • Learner-centered OR learner-centred
  • Learning
  • Learning disabilities
  • Learning outcomes
  • Learning spaces
  • Learning styles
  • Learning technologies
  • Learning tools
  • Lecturing

M

  • Massive open online course OR MOOC
  • Memory
  • Mental models
  • Metacognitive skills
  • Minute papers
  • Mixed methods research
  • Mobile devices
  • Motivating students
  • Motivation
  • Multidisciplinary
  • Multimodal learning
  • Multiple choice questions

N

  • Non-disclosure

O

  • Objectives
  • Online learning
  • Open learning

P

  • Participation
  • Pedagogy
  • Peer assessment
  • Peer observation
  • Peer review
  • Plagiarism
  • Prior knowledge
  • Problem-based learning
  • Professors
  • Program outcomes

Q

  • Qualitative analysis
  • Qualitative research
  • Quantitative analysis
  • Quantitative research
  • Questions
  • Quizzes

R

  • Reading
  • Reflection
  • Reliability
  • Reports
  • Research design
  • Research methods
  • Risk-taking
  • Rubric design
  • Rubrics

S

  • Scholarship of teaching and learning OR SOTL
  • Science technology engineering mathematics education OR STEM education
  • Self-assessment
  • Self-regulation
  • Simulations
  • Skills
  • Small group discussion
  • Social constructivism
  • Stereotype threat
  • Student engagement
  • Student support
  • Students
  • Study skills
  • Summative feedback
  • Survey design
  • Syllabus

T

  • Taxonomy/taxonomies of learning
  • Teachers
  • Teaching
  • Teaching assistants
  • Teaching controversial/sensitive topics
  • Teaching evaluations
  • Teaching methods
  • Teaching perspectives
  • Teaching philosophy
  • Teaching portfolio
  • Teaching spaces
  • Team-based learning
  • Testing
  • Textbooks
  • Threshold concepts
  • Trigger warnings

U

  • Underachievement
  • Undergraduate students
  • Understanding
  • Universal design
  • University
  • Unprepared students

V

  • Validity
  • Values
  • Vocational training
  • Vulnerable populations
  • Vulnerable students

W

  • Work-integrated learning
  • Workplace learning
  • Writing