Lectures are a very efficient way to present information. It has been proven however, that students learn best by doing. By incorporating active learning elements into the lecture, teachers can increase students’ learning potential, motivation, and achievement. This program will discuss and demonstrate several ways that instructors can engage students in making explicit connections.

Topics include:

• Why is active learning important?
  
• Low-risk high-impact active learning instructional strategies
  
• Simple ways to engage learners from the very start of class sessions
  
• Classroom demonstrations of active learning instructional methods & activities that enhance classroom presentations
   

 

Jim Eison is a psychologist who made teaching and learning in higher education the focus of his professional career. He is currently a fulltime faculty member in the University of South Florida’s (USF) Doctoral Program in Higher Education where he teaches such courses as "Seminar in College Teaching," "Cognitive Issues in Instruction" and "Powerful Pedagogies in College Teaching" as well as mentoring students’ doctoral dissertations. He is a co-author of Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom.
 

FEATURE APPEARANCES BY:

K. Patricia Cross, Professor Emerita of Higher Ed., Univ. of California-Berkeley

Thomas A. Angelo, Professor of Higher Ed. and Director of the University Teaching Development Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Elizabeth F. Barkley, Professor of Music, Dean of Fine Arts and Communications, De Anza Foothill College