Resilient Pedagogy

Resilient Pedagogy is the practice of instructional design with an eye towards needing to address a wide variety of pedagogical modes, venues, and circumstances within one course.  In a post-pandemic world (it isn't that yet, but I'm hoping for the future here), our designs need to take flexibility into account that will allow for good educational experiences with the least amount of added stress to learner and instructor.  It also may work as a potent antidote for the pernicious idea of "disruption" in education.

This page will function as an annotated bibliography for the resources I come across on this topic.

People
Joshua Eyler (@joshua_r_eyler) - Director of Faculty Development at University of Mississippi; author of How Humans Learn (WVU Press, 2018)

Tom Haymes (@ideaspacesnet) - Founder of Idea Spaces Net

Short Pieces
Imagining a Resilient Pedagogy, Bill Hart-Davidson (Apr 2020)
Introduces a way of conceptualizing a class built with resiliency in mind using the metaphor of the studio space.

Hybrid Plus Strategy, Tom Haymes (May 2020)
An example of a robust, student-centered resilient pedagogical system.  Plans for online without ignoring or minimizing the need for student interaction, within physical spaces if possible.

What Are We Learning About Academic Resilience?, Abigail Lipson & Adina Glickman (Jul 2020)
Answering key questions about what 'resilence' is, anyway.  Focuses not just on pedagogy, but the institutional and student experiences as well.  An important element included here is the emphasis on 'resilience' as a communal phenomenon, not something an individual "has."

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