Developing Active-Learning Activities for your Course
Online
Presenter: Andy Jolly-Ballantine, Geography
By now you have a set of module-scale objectives for your class and some content ready to present. You have heard that it is good to inject some active learning into the module to engage students and provide variety to your assessments of their learning. For many of us, the step of creating activities and engaging assessments for every objective in a class can seem like an overwhelming task. Let's take it one step at a time by targeting one objective you want to address with active learning and discuss how we can do this with your peers. This open session is intended as a forum for instructors (teaching in any modality) with some knowledge of working with objectives and assessments. We will talk with one another about building effective, active learning tools for engaging students and assessing their understanding of the material in a low-risk manner. We will keep the number of participants small so we can each have a chance to discuss a thorny problem we are grappling with and hear about how others are building their own activities. This workshop will be repeated so feel free to come back to continue sharing ideas and building your library of active learning tools.
Tuesday, September 22, 1:00-2:30
Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=1683
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu