Search Results for: active learning

November 18, 2024

Kyle Christie Empowers Students with Video Lessons, Interactive Learning and Goal-Setting

Reading Time: 3 minutes Kyle Christie is a Digital Media Professor and coordinator of the Broadcasting Performance and Digital Media program at Conestoga College. Recognized for his excellence in...

Categories Faculty Stories/Giving Feedback/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

October 29, 2024

Active Learning in your Tech or Software Lessons

Reading Time: 10 minutes Teaching technical courses on software, programming, web development, and design can effectively leverage active learning. Active learning emphasizes building firsthand, practical experience and gradually fostering...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching/Tech for New Faculty/Tech For Teaching

March 15, 2024

Active Learning with AI

Reading Time: 10 minutes Active learning ideas and tips for use using generative AI chatbots like Copilot

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/AI and Learning/AI and Teaching/Teaching

January 25, 2024

Active Learning Ideas 

Reading Time: 11 minutes The ideas here are in alphabetical order. This is not an exhaustive list of active learning ideas and many of these ideas may be adapted...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching

November 30, 2023

Connecting Active Learning Activities and Assessments to Sustainability

Reading Time: 3 minutes Laura Matheson, an educator since 2008, joined Conestoga College in 2013 to develop and teach in the Sustainable Business Management post-graduate program. Passionate about education,...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Build Community/Educational Development Opportunities/Faculty Stories/Group Work/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

September 13, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Padlet

Reading Time: 3 minutes Promoting active participation in class is beneficial for students because they are incorporated into the activities and are contributors to their learning process. Essentially, students...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching

July 6, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Annotate

Reading Time: 3 minutes Opportunities to share reactions, expressions, and ideas are vital to the creation of a rich learning environment and classroom community. Even when classes are conducted...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching

June 26, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Mentimeter Word Clouds

Reading Time: 2 minutes The power of connecting ideas, feelings, and words in class is beneficial for the learning process, it can help clarify understanding and allow students to...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching

June 26, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Whiteboards

Reading Time: 2 minutes Most of us are familiar with using whiteboards in classrooms to explain a topic, highlight key ideas, or to allow students to contribute collaboratively; much...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching/Zoom or Teams

March 27, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Breakout Rooms

Reading Time: 4 minutes Conestoga College encourages teamwork and collaboration in diverse groups where students can learn from each other. Small group discussions in person or virtually help promote...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching/Tech For Teaching/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)