The Hidden Costs of Active Learning. Viewpoint The Hidden Costs of Active Learning Flipped and active learning truly are a better way for students to learn, but they also may be a fast track to instructor burnout.
By Thomas Mennella04/05/17. Six Things Faculty Can Do to Promote Student Engagement. Last week’s post encouraged us to reconsider what student engagement means and entails.
Today I’d like to explore just some of the things teachers can do to better promote it. I’m offering six ideas here and encourage you to add to the list. Redefine participation. Let it include more than verbal comments. Engaging Students with Active Learning. Teaching & Learning Engaging Students with Active Learning By John K.
Waters04/15/15 If you want to increase student interest in your class, add "extreme" to its title. 5 Roles that Modern Online Instructors Play for Effective E-Learning. June.27.2016 By: Arunima Majumdar Technology-aided learning is predominantly self-driven or asynchronous.
This gives the modern corporate learners flexibility to learn as per their schedules or emergent needs. 3 Ideas to Give Your Next eLearning Course Visual Oomph. What do you think is the first thing people would remember about your eLearning course’s screen, if suddenly asked?
It should be no wonder that what they will put design on top of the list. But why does this happen? Although you may think that the information provided is much more important than the design, people are visual creatures, and they easily associate memories with colors, texture and images. If you want your eLearning course to create a long lasting impression, do not neglect the importance of an impactful design. Simple Techniques for Applying Active Learning Strategies to Online Course Videos. From Web-enhanced face-to-face courses to MOOCs, flipped, blended, and fully online courses, videos are an integral component of today’s educational landscape—from kindergarten all the way through higher education.
But there’s a big difference between watching a video and learning something from it. Videos are great for presenting visual information and emotional appeals, but not particularly effective at diving below the surface of non-visual theoretical or abstract topics or for driving critical thinking. What’s more, any video presented in class must compete for attention and memory with the five-plus hours the typical student spends outside of class watching television programs, movies, and other onscreen entertainment. (Nielsen, 2013) To help increase the educational effectiveness of an online course video, consider applying one or more of the following active learning strategies. Ready to Use Activities for Engaging Online Learning Sep2014. The Relationship between Participation and Discussion. October 22, 2014 By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog My interest in participation and discussion continues.
How do we use them so that they more effectively promote engagement and learning? A couple of colleagues and I have been working on a paper that deals with how we define participation and discussion. (Side note: If you want to challenge your thinking about an aspect of teaching and learning, consider focused conversations with colleagues and the purposefulness of a writing project. Professors learn to adapt to today's students. Research: Using Active Learning More Important than Flipping the Classroom. Research Research: Using Active Learning More Important than Flipping the Classroom An active learning approach produces the same student learning outcomes in both flipped and nonflipped classrooms, according to new research from Brigham Young University (BYU).
6 Entertaining Games Made Entirely in Microsoft Excel. Excel — your friendly (and perhaps most dreaded) office tool.
But it's not just for spreadsheets anymore. Believe it or not, you can turn the data-analyzing, number-cruncher into one unbelievably cool game. The Microsoft software has a few secrets up its sleeve; many people have managed to design new games or recreate classics like Monopoly from its offerings. Below, we've highlighted six games made entirely in Microsoft Excel.