Last Reviewed:June 25, 2024 First Published:June 22, 2022 When students are engaged with course content, they are actively involved in the learning process and constructing their own knowledge (Delialioglu, 2012). Instructors who engage students make learning meaningful, gain and keep their attention, and motivate them to pursue excellence. Engagement strategies include setting clear expectations,… Read More
Are you ready to adopt the latest research on effective teaching in your classes? Great! Are your students ready to make the move from passive to active learning? Students are often resistant to changes to teaching because they do not understand the compelling reasons to engage in active learning. They got here with traditional lectures… Read More
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To lecture or not to lecture? This is a common question in higher education today, as critics have called lectures boring, obsolete, old-fashioned, overused, and even unfair. The criticisms, however, often are leveled at one type of lecture: the full-session, transmission-model lecture. There are, however, other forms of lecture. So perhaps the question we should… Read More
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Dr. Jackson will discuss his strategies to engage students through the use of case-based learning. During this session, participants will: Define case-based learning Distinguish case-based learning from problem-based learning Identify features of effective case-based learning sessions Review strategies to enhance case-based learning sessions
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Faculty are so busy with didactic, lab, clinical, meetings, research, curriculum changes and their own personal lives that integrating active learning within a class seems like an insurmountable task. Don’t fret! There is hope! During our time together, we will discover how active learning differs from passive learning and just how easy it is to… Read More
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One way to engage healthcare professional students is through the use of gamification and games. Gamification and games can be used to help encourage learners to motivate actions, progress through content, and reinforce behavior and knowledge. While games and gamification are often used interchangeably, there is a difference. The use of gamification for learning is… Read More
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Volume 4, Issue 1 In this issue: The Teaching Scope: Reinforcing COI Social Presence Teacher’s Toolbox: Whiteboard.chat Did You Know?: You Can Integrate Flipgrid Pedagogy Podcast: Microlearning to Improve Engagement Research Bytes: Gen Z May Need Trigger Warnings
Volume 2, Issue 3 In this issue: The Teaching Scope: What I’ve Learned About Student Engagement… Teacher’s Toolbox: SLRC PEN #2 Did You Know: You don’t need to be a designer… Pedagogy Podcast: Stop Talking, Start Influencing Research Bytes: Flipped classrooms show mixed results for students in health science…
Volume 2, Issue 1 In this issue: The Teaching Scope: Expanding Your Reach: Engaging Learners on Multiple Campuses in Active Learning Teacher’s Toolbox: Mind Maps to Reinforce Learning Pedagogy Podcast: Accessibility: Team-Based Learning (TBL): A Practical Approach… Research Bytes: Health science students in TBL had higher…
Volume 1, Issue 7 In this issue: The Teaching Scope: Reinforcing Lectures to Engage… Teacher’s Toolbox: Sync Learning with PhET Did You Know? My Mediasite has a polling option… Pedagogy Podcast: Dynamic Lecturing… Research Bytes: 95% of dentistry students surveyed value…
