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June 18, 2025

Lights, Camera, Learn! Best Practices For Sharing Videos During Class  

Reading Time: 6 minutesLet’s be honest—lecturing for 60 or 90 minutes straight is tough on students and faculty alike. Research shows that student attention begins to drop after about 20 minutes of passive listening (Bradbury, 2016). That’s why integrating active learning strategies is so important—and one of the most effective tools in your teaching toolkit is video.  Whether it’s a short documentary clip,...
Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching/Lesson & Course Planning/Student Engagement & Communication Comments: 0
August 31, 2021

Trauma-Informed Teaching

Reading Time: 6 minutesAs we begin our teaching each semester, we welcome strangers into our class whose past experiences are unknown to us.  Over time, it sometimes becomes clear that a student is struggling with the impact of life experiences on the student’s ability to learn. This teaching tip will provide a research perspective and practical suggestions to help make your class a welcoming environment for students with trauma in their past (or present).
Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching/Inclusive Teaching
June 22, 2021

“Involve Me and I Learn”- The Connection Between Active Learning and How the Brain Learns

Reading Time: 3 minutesTell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin Conestoga College endorses active learning to promote an engaging and positive learning experience for the students. Active learning is an approach to teaching and learning where teachers involve the students in the learning process by using various strategies. However, why do students learn...
Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching/Inclusive Teaching/Teaching for Learning
January 15, 2020

Games for Teaching Academic Integrity

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis post describes teaching academic integrity using games, and lists a selection of available games that can be adapted for your in-person, hybrid, or asynchronous course. Games for Learning The term serious games refers to games that aim to inform and educate within or outside the classroom (Susi, Johannesson, & Backlund, 2007). Gamification and games-based learning can provide a fun, low-stakes, and cooperative approach towards course content (Khan, Dyer, Bjelobaba, et...
Categories EdTech for Active Learning/Effective Teaching/Teaching for Learning/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching
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