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This article is about using a Zoom tool built into Canvas.
Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, Canvas (MyCourses), Collaborative Learning, HyFlex (Concurrent), Online Courses, Student Response Systems, Virtual Whiteboard, Web Conferencing, Zoom
The features of Zoom include: Screen sharing, breakout rooms, whiteboards, live surveys and polls, application sharing, synchronized web browsing,…
Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Collaborative Learning, HyFlex (Concurrent), Online Courses, Presentation Tools, Student Response Systems, Virtual Whiteboard, Web Conferencing, Zoom
Three principles for designing and presenting presentations.
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Presentation Tools
Suggestions for promoting active student engagement in lectures.
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies, Teaching Modality Active Learning, Face-to-Face
Considerations for flipping your classroom and suggestions for getting started.
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies, Teaching Modality Hybrid (“Flipped Classroom”)
Virtual labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering at the undergraduate and graduate levels and for research scholars.
Teaching and Learning Strategies Online Labs, STEM Courses
MindMeister is an online mind mapping tool that lets you capture, develop and share ideas visually. It can be used for brainstorming, note taking, …
Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Cognitively Based Learning Interventions
A comprehensive review of problem solving research and practice, including six kinds of problems and the methods required to solve them; purposes or…
Type: Book
Teaching and Learning Strategies Authentic/Case/Project/Problem Based Learning, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions
Rand Spiro makes the case for cognitive flexibility theory, case-based strategy for complex and ill-structured problems, requiring multiple…
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies Authentic/Case/Project/Problem Based Learning
This paper discusses some of the special characteristics of advanced learning of complex conceptual material, noting how these characteristics are…
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies Authentic/Case/Project/Problem Based Learning
Suggestions for creating physical presence, effective visuals, and interactive lectures.
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Face-to-Face, Hybrid (“Flipped Classroom”), Large Enrollment Classes
This book is filled with illustrative examples of questions and teaching activities that use classroom response systems from a variety of disciplines…
Type: Book
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Feedback, iClicker, Student Response Systems
Features resources on using classroom response systems (clickers), including descriptions of teaching and learning strategies and question types for…
Type: Book
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Feedback, iClicker, Student Response Systems
The K. Patricia Cross Academy sponsors a free library of teaching and learning strategies, including videos which can be searched by teaching…
Type: Tutorial
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Collaborative Learning
An introduction to classroom assessment techniques (CATs) and a list of examples, including descriptions, suggestions for what to do with the data,…
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Formative Assessment
Suggestions for designing and moderating discussions.
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies Discussion
A summary of high-impact practices that research suggests increase rates of student retention and student engagement.
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Collaborative Learning, ePortfolio, Exam Alternatives
Introduces the cognitive psychology foundation upon which Mayer’s multimedia learning principles are built and then summarizes each principle. 
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Presentation Tools
A summary of research and suggestions for putting metacognition into practice.
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Cognitively Based Learning Interventions
Suggestions for reducing extraneous cognitive load and enhancing germane cognitive load when designing learning materials.
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Cognitively Based Learning Interventions