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Active Learning Resources The concept behind active learning is that it involves direct engagement by students in activities designed to make them think, develop meaningful skills and enhance their enjoyment of the classes they attend. This web page is dedicated to providing you with ideas you can use in your classes to make them more interactive both face-to-face and online!
Active Learning Strategies Active learning activities can be incorporated in various classrooms as well as in an online environment. Presented in each section are activities, organized by active learning strategies and instructional approaches, which can be adapted into many classroom types
Classroom Discussions: How to Apply the Right Amount of Structure While preparing for a Teaching Professor Conference session on facilitating classroom discussions (much of which applies to online exchanges), I’ve been reminded yet again of the complexity involved in leading a discussion with students new to the content and unfamiliar with academic discourse.
Collaborative Learning Collaborative learning can occur peer-to-peer or in larger groups. Peer learning, or peer instruction, is a type of collaborative learning that involves students working in pairs or small groups to discuss concepts or find solutions to problems. Similar to the idea that two or three heads are better than one, educational researchers have found that through peer instruction, students teach each other by addressing misunderstandings and clarifying misconceptions.
Four Types of Group Work Activities to Engage Students To help you achieve success with group work, here are some examples of activities that instructors use in their courses to engage students in collaboration, including many which are low-stakes or no-stakes (i.e., ungraded) and are therefore less likely to produce resistance.
Four ways PSE can treat the classroom as an innovative workplace In order to develop the capability for workplace innovation in all our students, we're going to have to begin tackling the challenge in the space where all of them already participate – within our teaching and learning environments.
Gagne’s 9 Events of Instruction Gagne created a nine-step process called the events of instruction, which correlate to and address the conditions of learning.
K20 Center Instructional Strategies Over 50 teaching strategies with instructions
Problem-Based Learning: Six Steps to Design, Implement, and Assess Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is one pedagogical approach that might fit in your teaching toolbox. By breaking down the PBL cycle into six steps, you can begin to design, implement, and assess PBL in your own courses.
IDEA Notes on Instruction These succinct papers were written in collaboration with the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD). As a resource to support teaching improvement, each is useful to anyone wanting to address specific ways to employ different teaching methods – each of which is utilized in the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction.
Student-Centered Learning Student-Centred Learning (SCL) is a teaching method that can be broadly defined as a shift in the focus of activity (or instruction) from the teacher to the student. All types of courses from traditional to hybrid to online can utilize SCL.
The Science of SUCCESSFUL LEARNING. The article discusses teaching methods that can be used to lead to successful long-term learning by students. Topics discussed include the practice of making lessons desirably difficult, the use of tests and quizzes as a teaching strategy, and the contention that mixed practice is preferable to blocked practice for long-term learning.
What Great Teachers Do. In this article, the author offers suggestions to the teachers for implementing specific teaching strategies and classroom practices based on the biology of learning including research on brain and its affects on the process of learning.
Which Strategy Works Best? The article discusses the use of teaching strategies to best help students learn. Topics discussed include strategies designed to assist with long-term memory, the use of emotion and positive relationships between teachers and students to assist with learning, and strategies for helping students move information to their short-term, or working, memory.
6 Domains Of Cognition: The TeachThought Learning Taxonomy How can you tell if a student really understands something? The TeachThought Taxonomy is meant to be simple, arranged as (mostly) isolated tasks that range in complexity from less to more.

Bloom's Taxonomy Transforming Teaching Series, Issue VI
Busy, Noisy and Powerfully Effective! Cooperative Learning in the College Classroom Handbook of Teaching and Learning Strategies by Dr. Idahlynn Karre
Dealing with Student Errors Transforming Teaching Series, Issue V
Individual Learning Plans Transforming Teaching Series, Issue VIII
Inducting Learners Transforming Teaching Series, Issue VII
‘Let’s get together’ – ideas on managing group work Transforming teaching Series, Issue IX
Mental Energrizers Transforming Teaching Series, Issue IV
Questioning Transforming Teaching Series, Issue I
Questioning Games Transforming Teaching Series, Issue II
Starting & Ending Lessons Transforming Teaching Series, Issue III
50 Nifty Faculty Favourites Fifty Nifty Faculty Favorites is a collection of strategies from teaching and learning workshops facilitated by Dr. Idahlynn Karre. These 50 Faculty Favorites are the from Sault Ste Marie College in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada.
60 in 60! Creating Moments That Matter: 60 Seconds or 60 Minutes! The following 60 strengths teaching and learning strategies can be done in 60 seconds or 60 minutes. Each strategy provides an opportunity for you and your students to use strengths every day and to create “Moments That Matter” around strengths in the classroom.