I plan on having my Pharmacology students divide into groups, put a brochure together about a drug class, and share that information with the other groups.
Online active learning can open up engagement factors to real-world applications. Staying in the classroom limits tactile examples to only what is portable.
I learned that active learning is essential for the students to be involved and engaged in. I plan on applying active learning to my students by having them participate, reflect, listen and write.
Group project or individual project can be a great learning tool and having a rubric that is discussed with the students can elevate the stress of grading these project and the student can see and understand what is expected of them and exactly how they are going to be graded.
Check in with the students often to keep them engaged. Use direct responses to help the students focus their studying.
Engagement in the classroom keeps the students to come back to class, because it wont be boring. In my class we do Kahoots and they students love it!
The "Checklist to Critique Your Group Project" is a great tool for students working in groups. Thanks for including this! It will be helpful to see how the students felt the group members contributed to the project and how well the members felt they understood/learned the material by completing the group project.
This can help the students self-reflect and facilitators improve the group project and the group project experience.
It is really important for the instructor to set learner expectations from the beginning, provide opportunities for reflection, and consider barriers to engagement.
Not only providing resources to students, but also providing various types of student activities to engage all the different students in a classroom will be beneficial to the active learner model.
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I was thrusted into virtual teaching during the pandemic. It was helpful to collaborate with an instructor who had experience with virtual teaching. I was able to come up with some engaging assignments and allow the students to verbalize what they were learning. One of the biggest challenges was to have all of the students keep their cameras on the entire class time.
Providing feedback that is timely and specific is so helpful to students. I think the students getting to be known by their professor helps so much with course completion.
rubrics are important for visual representation of what is expected of the students. encouragement of active participation will increase student learning
Rubrics provide two way benefit by increasing transparency and simplifying grading
It is important to give frequent feedback and grades so students know how they are doing in the course and stay engaged. It is also important to directly reply to posts and assignments so they feel like they can communicate with the instructor.
Active learning makes the class more enjoyable for both the instructor and the students. In theory, it should keep everyone engaged and promote student-centered learning.
Just like face-to-face learning, it is important to keep students engaged in online learning. Instructors need to be continuously creative with assignments and class activities. Also, rubrics are an excellent tool to help with grading.
I need to learn five active learning tools to use in my online classroom.
I feel that good teaching involves assessment if what you are teaching by learning the feedback from the students. It is really no different for those instructors using active learning techniques. Some of the instructors do not want to receive poor evaluations and ultimately, they want students to achieve course learning outcomes.
I have learned to incorporate interactive elements for example instead of standard lecture use group discussions, case studies.
Rubric system is the best part and is very beneficial for such classrooms.
Engagement with students and encouragement in the course material.
