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Issues and priorities arising around academic development, teaching and learning in Higher Education.
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The combination of short videos and the techniques of active learning can create rich, engaging educational experiences to maximize learning. 
Teaching & Learning Centre - SUSS's curator insight,
February 20, 2022 8:17 PM
Microlectures with active learning aspects such as embedding interactive quizzes, seeking written content from students, and incorporating pause-points can help to provide students' engagement and learning performance.
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Using digital sources and tools in virtual humanities classrooms.
Peter Mellow's insight:
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Online teaching cannot replicate every aspect of face-to-face teaching, but it can encourage us to radically reimagine our courses. Online learning, much more than face-to-face learning, is a design challenge. Improvisation is far more difficult in a virtual environments. Activities need to be preplanned.
Peter Mellow's curator insight,
July 9, 2020 9:30 PM
Love these quotes from this story:
Online teaching cannot replicate every aspect of face-to-face teaching, but it can encourage us to radically reimagine our courses. Online learning, much more than face-to-face learning, is a design challenge. Improvisation is far more difficult in a virtual environments. Activities need to be preplanned.
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A study says smooth-talking professors can lull students into thinking they've learned more than they actually have -- potentially at the expense of active learning.
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Active learning often means revamping classrooms to enable more collaborative, hands-on student work — and that can be costly. Here's how to achieve the pedagogical change without the high expense.
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Getting faculty on board with active learning is key to improving student outcomes, and incorporating these learning strategies requires buy-in from b
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A rubric can be an invaluable aid in evaluating how well technologies support active learning.
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How do we tell whether something students do is really active learning or not? Look back at the definition.
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A study reveals students prefer low-effort learning strategies—like listening to lectures—despite doing better with active learning.
Peter Mellow's insight:
I still rate 'Reassessing the Value of University Lectures' by Sarah French and Gregor Kennedy (2015) as one of the best discussions around lectures. https://melbourne-cshe.unimelb.edu.au/resources/categories/occasional-papers/reassessing-the-value-of-university-lectures
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Business students at the University of Central Florida agitate for alternatives to a model that heavily shifts their learning time to outside the classroom and reduces exposure to instructors. Administrators say their approach is educationally sound.
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Active learning often means revamping classrooms to enable more collaborative, hands-on student work — and that can be costly. Here's how to achieve the pedagogical change without the high expense.
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