4 What Can Humanizing Learning Look Like in Practice?

Humanizing learning is a pedagogical lens rather than a set list of learning activities or rules. This means that there are countless ways an instructor can adopt or incorporate a humanizing mindset into their courses. However, there are also specific examples of teaching practices that would contribute to a more humanized learning environment. To serve as steps towards the humanization of learning, these ideas should be thoughtfully integrated courses to “help the instructor effectively meet particular pedagogical goals” and to allow students to “engage course content in ways that support the achievement of specific, measurable learning objectives.”^[1]

In the next sections, students have outlined what they would like to see in courses, as well as things that haven’t worked very well for them in the past. Instructors, learning designers, and educational developers have expanded the sections below to explore what this might look like in an instructor’s teaching practice.