I have the advantage of being the content developer as well as the instructor of the course I teach. Written into the course are a series of questions for the students to reflect on. Questions are good for interrupting a long passage of reading– in a way they wake up the reading student. and help them to re-focus on the material.
I’d like to find more ways of connecting the material to the student. In another course I’m currently developing/writing, I use a lot of concrete imagery to make abstract concepts “visible” to the student. I think that is really improving the course, and after reading this paper, I am tempted to go into the draft and add more visuals to help the student engage with the less tangible concepts.