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Active learning

Active learning

This is an excellent, compelling talk (“Student Engagement: Integrating Active-Learning into Health Science Courses”) by Dr Patrick Brown from ​East Tennessee State University. The Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative is a multi-year project at The University of British Columbia aimed at dramatically improving undergraduate science education. Their website is full of useful resources for developing learning activities. There are a particularly useful set of videos about evidence-based activities. Quizlet – provides free, online tools such as flashcards to help students with memorising terms or short answers….

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Engaging students in large classes

Engaging students in large classes

Engaging students in large classes requires a few different skills to engaging with smaller, more intimate groups. Here Deborah Ball, from the Centre for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan, discusses how she works with a large face-to-face class. No technology (although that certainly could be incorporated, through such applications as Socrative or GoSoapBox)…just active engagement.