Teaching and Learning

Active Learning Techniques

Delivering an Effective Lecture

blended/hybrid, ONline, and flipped courses

Because of the pandemic, many courses have been moved to online, hybrid/blended or hysync modalities. Due to the nature of this disruption, we highly encourage asynchronous teaching, even if your modality includes synchronous options. Those with synchronous options in your modality, will find their synchronous sessions to be more productive if they use the flipped classroom model.

The key feature of the flipped class is the different use of in-class and out-of-class time.

  • Out of class: watch videos, read articles, view recorded lectures, and generally get prepped on the information necessary for the in-class activities.
  • In-Class: engage students in activities, hands-on project, problem-based learning, and demonstrations to use the content they learned out of class.

Teaching large classes

Effective class discussions

► Designing Effective Discussions
► Improving Breakout Room Discussions in Online Teaching by Using Collaborative Documents
► How to Find the Power of Dialog Online
► Scaffolds and Hashtags for Student Engagement in Online Discussions
► The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies
► What Does Research Tell Us About Class Discussion?
► How to Build a Better Class Discussion
► Class Discussion: From Blank Stares to True Engagement
► Classroom Discussions: How to Apply the Right Amount of Structure
► Getting Students to Discuss by Channeling the Affective Domain
► 2 Minute Teaching Tip: How to Use Note Cards to Create Dialogue
► Civil Discussions in the Classroom
► Civil Discourse in the Classroom
► Balancing Classroom Civility and Free Speech: Lessons from a history classroom. An Essay by UTSA History Professor, Catherine Nolan-Ferrell for AAUP
► Tips for Managing Emotional Discussions in the Classroom
► Facilitating Class Discussions and Navigating Difficult Conversations
► Teaching the Art of the Difficult Classroom Conversation
► 7 Bricks to Lay the Foundation for Productive Difficult Dialogues
► Difficult Dialogues
► Controlled Fission: Teaching Supercharged Subjects
► Let’s Talk! Discussing Race, Racism and Other Difficult Topics with Students
► Active Learning
► Asking Questions: Six Types
► Facilitating a Positive, Engaging Classroom Discussion
► Use-It-Now: Communication
► Use-It-Now: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
► Use-It-Now: Student Collaboration

Group Projects (Cooperative Learning)

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