3 Learning Activities
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Consider your student learning activities
You know what learning materials your students will have. You know what you’ll say in the lecture material and how you’ll deliver each piece in a remote teaching environment. What’s missing now is the active engagement and participation of your students. As the old saying goes,
“Tell me and I’ll forget, show me and I’ll remember, involve me and I’ll understand.”
In your class, how do you ask your students to participate? Take inventory of all the ways you ask your students to actively engage with the materials, their peers and you.
- Discussions
- Debates
- Jigsaw exercises
- Case-Studies
- Group work
- Polling
- Web quests
- Reflective Journals
- Peer Assessment
- Other
Finding the tools for Active Learning
Translating what you DO with your students in the physical classroom into the online classroom can be the trickiest component of your course to design. There are countless online tools to help involve students in learning and help them understand but how do you find them and evaluate their effectiveness for your situation? Many face-to-face instructors simply don’t know what questions to ask when it comes to the tools available or the strategies for using them.
This index of Online Instructional Activities from the University of Illinois can get you started thinking about how to create active learning in your remote class.
Below is a link to a table of common teaching and learning practices, such as lectures, discussions, and group projects. You will find beside them suggested USask supported tools and resources to implement these practices remotely.
