Work in progress — Achieving student-centered learning through scalable instructional academic support resources

Our past ten years of experience in undergraduate academic support programs have taught us that understanding student-centered learning requires new perspectives. Whether it is in a traditional lecture or in a newly designed non-traditional course, how well teaching and learning goals are aligned is the key. To further promote student-centered learning for our engineering undergraduates, we have produced online-video modules to strengthen the instructional component of a peer-led problem-solving workshop, the Supplementary Instruction Program. The newly created teaching modules facilitate learning of difficult concepts in traditionally challenging physics and engineering mechanics courses. New understanding of students´ learning challenges has helped peer instructors craft and deliver these modules that reinforce the spirit of true student-centered learning and at the same time make our academic support resources more scalable.