Teaching, Learning, and Distance Education

Welcome to your faculty hub for collaborative growth and inclusive practice.

At GRCC, we recognize that teaching and learning happen everywhere, every day. TLDE serves as your partner in this journey, providing the resources and support needed to enhance the faculty and student experience across all modalities.

Mission Statement: TLDE centers inclusive practice by partnering with faculty through professional learning, course design, and technology support. By celebrating teaching excellence, we advance student success in every learning environment.

Our Foundational Framework

The Good Practices for Inclusive Teaching and Learning framework provides an evidence-based foundation for today’s multimodal landscape. Collaboratively adapted and modernized by faculty and staff to align with GRCC’s mission, vision, and values, these guidelines synthesize seminal teaching principles (Chickering & Gamson, 1987) with contemporary research in equity, belonging, and digital pedagogy (Artze-Vega et al., 2023; Cohen, 2022; Gordon, 2024; Vaughan et al., 2024).

• Promote communication and trust between student and educator.
• Cultivate community and collaboration among students.
• Design for active learning and engagement.
• Facilitate critical thinking and reflection.
• Generate prompt, meaningful, and multimodal feedback loops.
• Optimize time on task for both faculty and students.
• Communicate high expectations and confidence in student abilities.
• Incorporate diverse talents and multiple ways of learning and knowing.