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Student Participation/Active Learning- Teaching Tips - 0 views

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Student Participation/Active Learning Here are a few simple strategies to get students to respond to questions or participate more: One way to get the students to participate more in class is to give them an assignment that they have to come prepared to speak about.

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Class notes are, to borrow from a colleague of mine, "epistemologically weird." On the one hand, they are an individual account of what you learned during a class. On the other hand, if your notes are too individualized or idiosyncratic it means you will have likely missed what was most important.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Class notes are, to borrow from a colleague of mine, "epistemologically weird." On the one hand, they are an individual account of what you learned during a class. On the other hand, if your notes are too individualized or idiosyncratic it means you will have likely missed what was most important.</div>

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CIIA: Teaching and Learning Resources - Teaching Tips - Large Classes - 0 views

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Lots of good stuff here!

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Engaging the Large Class using technology - 2 views

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Short and good discussion

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Teaching Extra-Large Classes and the Role of Technology - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of... - 2 views

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Very short

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Large Course Redesign | Center for Teaching & Learning - 1 views

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Approach to Large Course Redesign

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UNC Chapel Hill blog on teaching large courses

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Horton Hears a Tweet (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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Learning takes place in a social context, and encouraging student-student and student-faculty contact and interaction gets at the heart of student engagement in online-education settings.
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Engaged students are more likely to take initiative, exert effort, and persevere during learning activities. In addition, when students are engaged in learning, there is increased potential that they will be interested, curious, optimistic, and enthusiastic5 — all positive attributes of a healthy, productive learning environment.
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  What an engaged student looks like
  
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Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson
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seven “good practice” principles
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Encourage student-faculty contact Encourage cooperation among students Encourage active learning Give prompt feedback Emphasize time on task Communicate high expectations Respect diverse talents and ways of learning
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  Add this to the list of things to discuss for large course resource....COLTT proposal, use in large course too
  
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Academic challenge Student interactions with faculty Active and collaborative learning Enriching educational experiences Supportive campus environment
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(as well as prominently featured as an NSSE benchmark), is the idea that good practice encourages contact between students and faculty
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  at the heart of all instruction, i would say
  
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knowing one’s instructors well has a positive impact on learning, which may in turn help with retention and successfully accomplishing the goals of the course and program.10 Encouraging student-faculty contact and interaction thus gets at the heart of student engagement
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development of a culture of caring and trust needed for an effective online learning community.
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social presence refers to the sense of another person as being “there” and being “real.”1
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  achieving being there and being real in a large class is similar to online learning
  
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Without a high level of social presence, students can feel isolated and disengaged because of a lack of communication intimacy and immediacy.
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