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How to Significantly Improve Student Engagement and Retained Learning in Higher Education

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After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge.

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Why I Stopped Starting Class with Content—and What Happened Instead

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I still assign readings. Try This in Your Class Tomorrow If you want to test this out without overhauling your syllabus, here’s a quick plug-and-play format: Choose a paradox related to your next topic. Since then, I’ve started every class not with content, but with creative tension. But I don’t start there anymore. Make it messy.

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Why I Stopped Starting Class with Content—and What Happened Instead

Faculty Focus

I still assign readings. Try This in Your Class Tomorrow If you want to test this out without overhauling your syllabus, here’s a quick plug-and-play format: Choose a paradox related to your next topic. Since then, I’ve started every class not with content, but with creative tension. But I don’t start there anymore. Make it messy.

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Beyond Syllabus Week: Creative Strategies to Engage Students from Day One

Faculty Focus

Ever wonder why students dont read the syllabus, despite the time and effort we put into creating it? It serves as a contract between instructors and students (Eberly, Newton, & Wiggins, 2001), outlining the entire semesters expectations, assignments, and deadlines. Use Notebook LM to create a podcast of your syllabus.

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Reimagining Syllabus Day 

Faculty Focus

Reimagining the traditional “syllabus day” to an engaged “preview day” provides an opportunity to set a desired tone for the semester. In the final 20 minutes of class, I tend to shift focus to the syllabus. Since I reimagined “syllabus day” to “preview day,” I have seen some positive outcomes.

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Reimagining Syllabus Day 

Faculty Focus

Reimagining the traditional “syllabus day” to an engaged “preview day” provides an opportunity to set a desired tone for the semester. In the final 20 minutes of class, I tend to shift focus to the syllabus. Since I reimagined “syllabus day” to “preview day,” I have seen some positive outcomes.

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Beyond Syllabus Week: Creative Strategies to Engage Students from Day One

Faculty Focus

Ever wonder why students dont read the syllabus, despite the time and effort we put into creating it? It serves as a contract between instructors and students (Eberly, Newton, & Wiggins, 2001), outlining the entire semesters expectations, assignments, and deadlines. Use Notebook LM to create a podcast of your syllabus.