Active Learning

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Effective Lecturing (W.E. Cashin)
A summary of the literature about how to improve the quality of lectures.
Type: Article
 Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Face-to-Face
Making Lectures More Active (IUPUI)
Discusses the pros and cons of lectures and recommendations for more active lectures: ask students what they know or think about class content, learn…
Type: Website
 Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Face-to-Face
Students as Learners, not Spectators: Using Presentation Software Better (University of Notre Dame)
Suggestions for how instructors can use presentation tools to promote active learning.
Type: Website
 Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Presentation Tools
Encouraging Metacognition in the Classroom (Yale University Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning)
Describes examples of how instructors can support student metacognition. Includes examples and recommendations.
Type: Website
 Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions
Differential effects of full and partial notes on learning outcomes and attendance. (Cornelius, T.L., and Owen-DeSchryver, J.)
This study examined partial versus full notes in introductory psychology classes while controlling for initial levels of student knowledge and…
Type: Article
 Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Study Skills
Should Instructors Provide Students with Complete Notes? (Faculty Focus)
This article makes the case for providing students with partial, rather than complete, notes as a way of stimulating encoding and higher-level…
Type: Article
 Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Study Skills
Incomplete Outline (Parnis, A.)
Suggestions for using the incomplete outline, a way of helping students recognize the most important or main ideas and the organizational pattern of…
Type: Website
 Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Study Skills
Team-based learning (Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching)
An overview of a team-based learning module, including group formation, out of class readings for preparation, in-class individual and group…
Type: Website
 Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Authentic/Case/Project/Problem Based Learning, Collaborative Learning
50 Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) (University of Kentucky Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning)
Summary of the fifty Classroom Assessment Techniques from Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (Angelo and Cross).
Type: Website
 Assessment and Feedback Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Formative Assessment
Zoom: Starting a Zoom Meeting and Sharing a PowerPoint
This video walks you through a sample lecture period using Zoom.
Type: Knowledge Base
 Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, Collaborative Learning, HyFlex (Concurrent), Online Courses, Student Response Systems, Virtual Whiteboard, Web Conferencing, Zoom