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2024 Open Class Visits: February 19-23.

• By February 8:
• February 9: Open Class Celebration schedule announced
• By February 22: Sign up to visit a class | View the Open Class Visit Schedule
  Note: sign-ups will close 1 day before the open class date, and each class has capacity limits.
• February 14: Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
• February 19-23: Open Class Celebration 
• Week of March 4: Discussion sessions for OCC participants

Potential benefits for participants include opportunities to:

• See your colleagues in action in various learning environments
• Share how you incorporate effective and evidence-based teaching techniques and tools
• Learn new approaches to teaching and engaging students
• Experience what students feel as they are in class as learners
• Engage with other colleagues in a pedagogical community
• Prompt self-reflection

For faculty members opening their classes:

• Sign-up to open your class. This will let us know that you invite faculty colleagues to visit your classroom or synchronous online class. The sign-up form requests brief information about the class topic, instructional strategy or class context, and visitor capacity. It is important to keep in mind safety and your students’ learning; please adhere to the physical capacity and balance the number of visitors with class enrollment.
• A list of participants will be emailed to you 1 day in advance.

For faculty members visiting classes:

• Sign up in advance to visit a class. Registration closes 1 day before the open class date.
• Faculty members (full-time, part-time, adjunct) interested in collaboration, learning new ways of teaching, discussing challenges, and sharing experiences are invited. You are encouraged to visit classes outside of your department/program. The Open Class Visit is not for evaluating or critiquing the instructor.
• Visit open classes during the designated dates. You will receive an email confirmation of the class time and location.
• During your visit, please take care to minimize disruption to the learning environment. Engage in the discussion and activities only if invited by the host instructor. Learn something new from the lesson and take note of interesting teaching approaches.

For all faculty participants:

• Attend a session to discuss and reflect on the Open Class experience for faculty who opened their classes and those who visited.