Despite the increasing popularity of online learning, remote and hybrid courses pose challenges for students. To help address these challenges, the Collaborative has developed an Instructional Model with simple strategies that target belonging, metacognition, and other self-directed learning (SDL) skills students need to succeed in online courses.
Join us at NARST’s 2026 International Conference in Seattle for a discussion of how technology-based interventions can help college students develop self-directed learning (SDL) skills in online STEM courses.
Join us on April 24 for Achieving the Dream’s 2026 Teaching and Learning Summit: Future-Ready Pedagogy, a free, virtual event that will explore how community colleges can strengthen student learning in a world shaped by technology with practical strategies.
This study highlights the value of a person-centered approach to self-directed learning and suggest that technology-integrated supports can promote adaptive learning behaviors in online STEM learning environments.
Join us for the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2026 Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference, held virtually from March 18 to 20, 2026.
Join us at Achieving the Dream’s annual flagship event, DREAM, for a discussion of how online college courses can better support student motivation, engagement, and help-seeking behaviors.
This technical report describes the data sources, harmonization procedures, and psychometric analyses used to gather evidence for the reliability, validity, and fairness of the SDL survey measures.
Collaborative researchers Hannah Cheever and Ellen Wasserman unveiled a set of research-based strategies designed to improve teaching and learning in online college STEM courses at a recent conference for instructional designers.
Join us at the 2025 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, held live virtually from November 12–13, where professionals and technology providers from around the world will gather to network, share ideas, grow professionally, and discover solutions to today’s challenges.
Three students enrolled in courses that piloted the Collaborative’s Instructional Model share their experiences using evidence-backed strategies to foster and reinforce learning skills.