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"Preparing for an active learning class isn't more work than preparing for a lecture class".

Quick Start guides for Flipping Your Classroom in 6 languages!

Course creates areas of digital disconnection to help students regain their sense of focus

Google launched an open source course building web application for developing online classes. The barebones website is a lightweight way to bring course material online, track student engagement (with web traffic and surveys), and evaluate performance.

Andrew P. Martin loves it when his lectures break out in chaos. It happens frequently, when he asks the 80 students in his evolutionary-biology class at the University of Colorado at Boulder to work in small groups to solve a problem, or when he asks them to persuade one another that the answer they arrived at before class is correct.

Are you looking for some quick ideas for ways to integrate writing into your course, tips for responding to student writing, actual in-class activities, tips for using peer response in your course, or advice on preventing plagiarism? Then, check out our resources on the Writing Across the Curriculum writing and assessment wiki.

Instead of brain games, get up and move. Better yet, structure class so that students can move once or twice.

Do you want to assign a video project in your class? Here is some excellent guidance....

It's a typical scene: a few minutes before 11:00 on a Tuesday morning and about 200 sleepy-looking college students are taking their seats in a large lecture hall - chatting, laughing, calling out to each other across the aisles. Class begins with a big "shhhh" from the instructor.

An interesting and effective teaching method that delivers instruction online outside of class and moves "homework" into the classroom.

On 21 May 2012, OSU hosted a second video-concert/conference with the French blues group, Moussu T e lei Jovents (Provençal for "Mr. T and the Youngsters") from La Ciotat/Marseille. Sponsored by an LT eLearning Professional Development Grant, with matching funds from the Department of French and Italian and the Foreign Language Center, this event allowed students in French 631 ("Bringing Down the House") to sing along and engage in dialogue with the two leading musicians of the group.

Watch the following five-part video to learn basic vocal health techniques of support, projection, tension release, and proper placement of resonance in order to keep your lecturing voice strong throughout your class session, day, term, and career.

Tips for helping your students learn through immediate opportunities for practice and feedback

Students may sometimes be more impacted by informal communication and impromptu life lessons than by class material. Have you considered your "invisible curriculum" lately?

Interesting ideas on how to make your class relevant to your students (especially first-years) and connect to their intellectual development.

Tips that are easy to implement as you get your semester started.