Posts Tagged ‘building student engagement’
February 2 - Four Keys to Successful Service Learning in Online Courses
By: Christopher Hill in Online Education
Many faculty members may believe that service learning and distance education are mutually exclusive endeavors. However, David Pratt, associate professor of education and coordinator of learning and technology for Purdue University North Central, has found otherwise. He has successfully integrated a service learning component into an online course, and the lessons he has learned are applicable for anyone planning to do likewise.
November 18 - Humor in the Classroom: Reviewing the Research
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog
The December issue of The Teaching Professor newsletter contains a piece highlighting a review of research article on humor. It’s so impressive I decided I’d mention of few of its features and findings in this post.
September 23 - Student Engagement Tip: Give Each Lesson its Own Theme Song
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies
The challenge of engaging students in a large, introductory political science course, motivated Christopher Soper [article referenced below] to start exploring whether music might help him better connect students and course content. He now opens every class session with a song, and selecting those songs is part of an extra-credit assignment in the course.
September 7 - Five Strategies to Engage Today’s Students
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Explore the culture of Millennial learners, and see how it affects student engagement and learning. You’ll discover what learning environments work best, explore assignment strategies that boost relevance and hear how Millennial learners describe the ideal professor.
September 1 - Thoughts on Student Engagement in the College Classroom
By: Rob Kelly in Effective Teaching Strategies
Finding ways to actively engage your students can significantly enhance student learning. In an email interview with The Teaching Professor, Alice Cassidy PhD explains how to select and implement active learning techniques that are well suited to your content and students.
August 19 - The Front Row: A Small Group Feel in a Large Class
By: John Allison in Teaching and Learning
Frustrated with the traditional lecture format in an upper-level chemistry class that enrolled more than 100 students, and envious of my teaching assistants who spent time in small recitations working on problem solving with my students, I designed an approach I call the “The Front Row.” It brings a small group feel into a large classroom.
August 12 - Structuring Discussion to Engage Students
By: Nachamma Sockalingam PhD in Teaching and Learning
Instructors face a Herculean challenge in managing discussion – whether the discussion is face-to-face or online. To be an effective instructor, it is important to learn how to facilitate discussion, and keep the dialogue flowing without veering off topic.
July 13 - How to Win Students and Influence Learning
By: Ellen Smyth in Teaching and Learning
An intense couple of days at this year’s Teaching Professor Conference inspired me to revamp my course, and I’m starting at the very beginning. My goal is to set the perfect tone to inspire and engage as soon as students walk through my door. I’m taking the Dale Carnegie approach to people and applying that to the classroom. “There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything,” Carnegie writes. “Just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.”
July 12 - How Do You Engage Your Students? More Tips from Conference Attendees
By: Mary Bart in Effective Teaching Strategies
As we mentioned in the June 28 and July 5 posts, during the opening keynote at The Teaching Professor Conference, Elizabeth F. Barkley, a professor at Foothill College and author of Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty (Jossey-Bass, 2010) presented on a topic she titled Terms of Engagement: Understanding and Promoting Student Engagement
July 5 - More Tips on Active Learning
By: Mary Bart in Teaching and Learning
As we mentioned in the June 28 post, during the opening keynote at The Teaching Professor Conference, Elizabeth F. Barkley, a professor at Foothill College and author of Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty (Jossey-Bass, 2010) presented on a topic she titled Terms of Engagement: Understanding and Promoting Student Engagement in Today’s College
