Active Learning

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Zoom: Using Polling Functionality
This video walks you through the use of Zoom polling and provides tool-specific use cases for synchronous online instruction.
Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Collaborative Learning, HyFlex (Concurrent), Online Courses, Student Response Systems, Web Conferencing, Zoom
Zoom: Using a breakout room for group work and student collaboration
This article covers enabling breakout rooms, account settings, group settings, user settings, using breakout rooms.
Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, Collaborative Learning, HyFlex (Concurrent), Online Courses, Web Conferencing, Zoom
Zoom: Using Breakout Rooms
This video walks you through using Zoom breakout rooms for online instruction.
Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, Collaborative Learning, HyFlex (Concurrent), Online Courses, Web Conferencing, Zoom
Zoom - Controlling Participants in your Meeting
This article provides a list of recommended Zoom settings that enables a host to control how participants interact in a meeting. The intended purpose…
Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, HyFlex (Concurrent), Online Courses, Student Response Systems, Virtual Whiteboard, Web Conferencing, Zoom
Zoom: Integration with myCourses
This article is about using a Zoom tool built into Canvas.
Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, Canvas (MyCourses), Collaborative Learning, HyFlex (Concurrent), Online Courses, Student Response Systems, Virtual Whiteboard, Web Conferencing, Zoom
Teaching Online with Zoom
The features of Zoom include: Screen sharing, breakout rooms, whiteboards, live surveys and polls, application sharing, synchronized web browsing,…
Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Collaborative Learning, HyFlex (Concurrent), Online Courses, Presentation Tools, Student Response Systems, Virtual Whiteboard, Web Conferencing, Zoom
Twenty Ways To Make Lectures More Participatory (Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University)
Suggestions for promoting active student engagement in lectures.
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies, Teaching Modality Active Learning, Face-to-Face
Effective Lectures (Iowa State University Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching)
Suggestions for creating physical presence, effective visuals, and interactive lectures.
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Face-to-Face, Hybrid (“Flipped Classroom”), Large Enrollment Classes
Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments (Bruff, D.)
This book is filled with illustrative examples of questions and teaching activities that use classroom response systems from a variety of disciplines…
Type: Book
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Feedback, iClicker, Student Response Systems
Clickers (Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching)
Features resources on using classroom response systems (clickers), including descriptions of teaching and learning strategies and question types for…
Type: Book
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Feedback, iClicker, Student Response Systems