Boosting Learning and Decreasing Stress through Intentional Course Design

This article appears in The Best of the 2023 Teaching Professor Conference (Magna Publications, 2023).

When I began researching the impact of mental health challenges on student learning, one of my first steps was to interview a couple of friends from the counseling center on campus. I asked them what kinds of things faculty members did that might inadvertently exacerbate students’ mental health issues. Without hesitation, they mentioned oral presentations.