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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

Scholarly Teacher

At times, however, that stone may feel like a boulder, especially to research faculty who are used to delivering lectures and to whom the switch to activity-based learning may seem like a daunting and demanding venture into unfamiliar territory. Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash. Why Start With Think-Pair-Share?

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3 Ways To Improve Student Success With Strong Course Design

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It’s clear to me that the course design–how I lay out the mix of resources, homework, classwork, and more–affects how students absorb and share knowledge. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors knows a lot about how course design impacts learning. All of this starts with a good course design.

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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

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that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. We cannot compete with the other resources available to our students in our fundamental content knowledge. The empathetic course design perspective. He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI.

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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy 

Faculty Focus

Dr. Emily Tarconish, a teaching professor in the College of Education, contributed her deep knowledge of Universal Design for Learning and accessible course design. Tessa Wolf strengthened our commitment to inclusive course design. Sheza Shaikh centered mental health and belonging in her writing.

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When to Teach Online Classes Live and When to Let Students Learn on Demand

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The instructor can lecture and students can ask questions, or the instructor can lead a live discussion. For instance, instructors can ask students to post a one-sentence summary or brief reflection after going through an assigned reading or watching a short video lecture.

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Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time

Faculty Focus

We know that it’s important to incorporate small changes in our teaching, such as periodically adding a learning activity in place of a brief lecture. Flower Darby also suggests that, “Whether you are teaching in person, online, or in some hybrid format in 2021-22, intersperse brief lecture segments with productive activities.”.

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

Faculty Focus

A second monitor can be added to the setup for the instructor to view any lecture notes or to serve as a teleprompter that can be controlled through a laptop connected to the Lightboard CPU module. Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge.