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Tips to Encourage Active Learning

Module by: Robin Bartoletti. E-mail the author

Summary: Tips to Encourage Active Learning

Tips

  1. Ask students to state their expectations for the course.
  2. Some instructors require simple assignments to critique and share Websites on a particular topic or discipline. If you take the assignment a step further and require students to develop some deliverable where a group determines the critique score for each Web site - you will increase interaction and see more active learning.
  3. Pose the hard discussion questions requiring critical thinking and problem solving.
  4. Develop self-checking or mastery type quizzes to allow students to check their own understanding of the content.
  5. Ask students to teach a particular topic within the discipline to their peers.
  6. Encourage opinions supported by facts.
  7. Ask students to reflect on their own learning.
  8. Use simulations, case studies, role-plays, and real-life scenarios to prompt engagement with content.
  9. Use peer review.
  10. Develop shared writing assignments.
  11. Occasionally, quote student postings as a means of summarizing a discussion.
  12. Require students or groups to moderate discussion topics.
  13. Constantly encourage students.

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