Resources

Resource Category Topic
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.
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
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