Student Engagement and Active Learning
The strategies and resources linked below promote recall, deep understanding of course material, and higher-level learning, like critical thinking.
- How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging: An Advice Guide by Sarah Rose Cavanagh, Chronicle of Higher Education.
Increasing Student Participation
- Promoting Effective Classroom Participation from the Center for Teaching Excellence at Waterloo University
- Increasing Student Motivation and Participation from Cornell University’s Center for Teaching Innovation
- Increasing Student Participation from The Teaching Center at Washington University at St. Louis
- Strategies for Asking and Framing Questions from the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Building Student Engagement: 15 Strategies for the College Classroom (pdf)
- Pedagogies of engagement: Classroom‐based practices (pdf). by Smith, K. A., Sheppard, S. D., Johnson, D. W., & Johnson, R. T. (2005) from the Journal of Engineering Education 94(1), 87-101.
- Helping Students Persist in Online Learning from Association of College and University Educators
- Checking for Student Understanding in Online Learning from Association of College and University Educators
Active Learning
- Getting Started with Active Learning Techniques from the Center for Teaching Innovation at Cornell University
- Active Learning by Cynthia J. Brame, CFT Assistant Director from the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University
- Active Learning Cheat Sheet compiled by Gregory Smith and Cynthia Brame (must be logged into CUNYfirst to view)
- Active Learning Activities from the Center for Teaching Excellence at Waterloo University
- Zoom Active Learning Activities from NYU Steinhardt
- Active Learning YouTube Playlist
- Classroom Activities: Simple Strategies to Incorporate Student-Centered Activities Within Undergraduate Science Lectures. by Lom B. (2012). from the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, 11(1), A64–A71.
- Using Concept Maps from Carnegie Mellon University- Eberly Center
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