Active Learning

Resource Category Topic
A summary of the literature about how to improve the quality of lectures.
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Face-to-Face
Discusses the pros and cons of lectures and recommendations for more active lectures: ask students what they know or think about class content, learn…
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Face-to-Face
Suggestions for how instructors can use presentation tools to promote active learning.
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Presentation Tools
Describes examples of how instructors can support student metacognition. Includes examples and recommendations.
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions
This study examined partial versus full notes in introductory psychology classes while controlling for initial levels of student knowledge and…
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Study Skills
This article makes the case for providing students with partial, rather than complete, notes as a way of stimulating encoding and higher-level…
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Study Skills
Suggestions for using the incomplete outline, a way of helping students recognize the most important or main ideas and the organizational pattern of…
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Study Skills
An overview of a team-based learning module, including group formation, out of class readings for preparation, in-class individual and group…
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Authentic/Case/Project/Problem Based Learning, Collaborative Learning
Summary of the fifty Classroom Assessment Techniques from Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (Angelo and Cross).
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Formative Assessment
This video walks you through a sample lecture period using Zoom.
Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, Collaborative Learning, HyFlex (Concurrent), Online Courses, Student Response Systems, Virtual Whiteboard, Web Conferencing, Zoom