Category: Active Learning and Engagement

March 31, 2022

Start Your Class with Content-based Icebreakers

Reading Time: 4 minutes Content-based icebreakers are icebreakers are short discussion or active learning activities that incorporate a topic or key concept of the course or class topic. They...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Build Community/Teaching

March 26, 2022

Students Talking in an In-Person Class

Reading Time: 5 minutes This teaching tip offers strategies for addressing students “side talking” in an in-person class in a kind, respectful way. It also describes ideas for structured and unstructured talk time in class.  

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/In-person/Teaching

March 25, 2022

Help Students Complete Non-Graded Asynchronous Activities

Reading Time: 5 minutes Encourage students to complete course activities that are not graded.

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/Hybrid/Online Asynchronous/Teaching

January 24, 2022

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

January 21, 2022

Jigsaw

Reading Time: 3 minutes A versatile group learning activity in which students become the “experts” and teach each other.

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Group Work/Teaching

January 20, 2022

Learning Cells

Reading Time: 2 minutes What is it? With Learning Cells, students develop questions about a learning activity and then take turns asking and answering questions in pairs. Uses Learning...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching

June 22, 2021

“Involve me and I learn”- The Connection Between Active Learning and How Brain Learns

Reading Time: 3 minutes Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin Conestoga College endorses active learning to promote an...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching

May 20, 2021

Icebreakers for Your Zoom Classrooms

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the era of synchronous online learning, it is important to create a community of learning. Using icebreakers can foster communities, promote positive teacher and...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Build Community/Online Synchronous/Teaching

January 13, 2021

Boost Engagement with Zoom Text Chat

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ideas and tips for using text chat to boost engagement and clear communication during remote synchronous meetings

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

January 7, 2021

Silent In-Class Reading Time

Reading Time: 4 minutes If one goal of your class meetings is to promote thoughtful, lively discussion among students, then it can be useful to think about ways to...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/In-person/Online Synchronous