Student Engagement and Active Learning

The strategies and resources linked below promote recall, deep understanding of course material, and higher-level learning, like critical thinking.

• How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging: An Advice Guide by Sarah Rose Cavanagh, Chronicle of Higher Education.

Increasing Student Participation

• Promoting Effective Classroom Participation from the Center for Teaching Excellence at Waterloo University
• Increasing Student Motivation and Participation from Cornell University’s Center for Teaching Innovation
• Increasing Student Participation from The Teaching Center at Washington University at St. Louis
• Strategies for Asking and Framing Questions from the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Building Student Engagement: 15 Strategies for the College Classroom (PDF)
• Pedagogies of engagement: Classroom‐based practices (PDF). by Smith, K. A., Sheppard, S. D., Johnson, D. W., & Johnson, R. T. (2005) from Journal of Engineering Education 94(1), 87-101.
• Helping Students Persist in Online Learning from Association of College and University Educators
• Checking for Student Understanding in Online Learning from Association of College and University Educators

Active Learning

• • Getting Started With Active Learning Techniques from the Center for Teaching Innovation at Cornell University
  • Active Learning by Cynthia J. Brame, CFT Assistant Director from the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University
  • Active Learning Cheat Sheet compiled by Gregory Smith and Cynthia Brame (must be logged into CUNYfirst to view)

• Active Learning Activities from the Center for Teaching Excellence at Waterloo University
• Zoom Active Learning Activities from NYU Steinhardt
• Active Learning YouTube Playlist
• Classroom Activities: Simple Strategies to Incorporate Student-Centered Activities Within Undergraduate Science Lectures by Lom B. (2012), from Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, 11(1), A64–A71.
• Using Concept Maps from Carnegie Mellon University- Eberly Center

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