Welcome to October! The temperature is dropping, the leaves are changing, and our students have entirely forgotten how to use their voices—or at least, that’s what it can feel like. Read on for a few proven ways to encourage discussion in your courses. Question Brainstorm If students are silent when you ask questions they might… Read more »
Tag: active learning
Implementing Successful Peer Review Practices
Peer review—the process of engaging students in providing feedback on each other’s work—is one of the most productive practices for courses that integrate any form of writing. While receiving useful feedback from their peers, students discover how others approach writing tasks. In doing so, students learn how to give, receive, and integrate feedback—skills that are… Read more »
What Will You Keep this Fall? Michael Morrone on Google Docs to Promote Student Engagement
In this week’s WWYK episode, I talk with Michael Morrone, one of our first class of Teaching Professors, from the Kelley School of Business, and the Director of FACET. Michael shares how he uses Google Docs to structure class activities and enhance student engagement both within activities and across the semester. His approach is also… Read more »
I’ve Got Top Hat (Clickers)…Now What?
There was much cheering in August when IU signed an enterprise agreement with Top Hat, making this “clicker” solution free for IU students. Many faculty members have jumped at this opportunity to engage students in class and discover in real time what students are understanding and what they are not. But now that you’ve got… Read more »
I should approach my teaching the way I approach my science?
In this installment of our SoTL faculty spotlight series, Valerie O’Loughlin (Professor of Anatomy and Associate Director, Undergraduate Education, Medical Sciences Program, School of Medicine) shares her path to becoming a SoTL researcher. Valerie first became introduced to SoTL in 1999 during an information session about creating a SoTL community at IUB, and she and… Read more »
Flipping Your Class, Part 4: First Exposure Matters? Presenting Materials to Students Online
In the last part of this series, we filled our in-class framework with activities that allow our students to collaborate on the advanced learning objectives to achieve mastery. For this final part, we’ll be designing a pre-class session focusing on our basic learning objectives that students complete on their own. Our primary goal is to… Read more »