…innovative teaching environment blends engaged lectures with hands-on, collaborative activities, with the instructor as a facilitator. The studio integrates lecture, lab, and group work in a flexible learning environment, allowing…
…teaching effectiveness may be overestimated because people have a tendency to define goodness in some pretty self-serving ways. So if you give entertaining lectures, then entertaining lectures becomes a component…
…materials, hypothetical problems, lecture notes, video clips of lectures, threaded discussions, chat, and quizzes. Each course offers chat at least twice per semester, but students are not required to participate…
…course, I think they find times that are better suited for them to concentrate.” In addition, students can go over the lecture notes and any supporting materials multiple times to…
…technology as well as the student-centered learning environment. For older students, the technology and the pedagogy are obstacles. Many older students are used to a traditional, lecture-based learning environment and…
…more you learn that it’s more effective to have student-centered, hands-on, authentic project-based activities than it is to have lecture-type activities where students are just reading and absorbing information,” Rice…
…a lecture-based course that normally meets three times a week to a block format that consists of a single four-hour session. The instructor might be a great lecturer, but it’s…
…the discussion forum, “so it isn’t just me posting one lecture and never getting back on there. It feels more like a conversation that way.” Contact Kyla Heflin at kheflin@uccs.edu….
