Making Active Learning Work
The University of Minnesota Center for Teaching and Learning's, Scenes from the Classroom: Making Active Learning Work, is a workshop to offer guidance to instructors as they implement active learning in their courses.
Tutorial Games Using PowerPoint
PowerPoint can be a flexible tool for creating a variety
of classroom applications beyond displaying lecture
content.
Learn how to use PowerPoint to hold students'
attention with multimedia and hyperlink capabilities,
and even create
games for students to play.
CTLT Teaching Toolkit
Center for teaching learning and technology's new workshop series focuses on practical ways to address the challenges of teaching, and to maximize student learning.
Active Learning
Active learning resources--workshops, learning styles, links, and suggested readings.
Getting Students Involved
One instructor's experience developing small group problem solving strategies, structured controversy, and self-directed learning; developed by University of Minnesota Center for Teaching and Learning.
Clicking with Large Classes
Karen Kelsky, assistant professor in anthropology, describes how she creates the sense of connectedness in classes of thirty students to a class of 350; developed by University of Oregon.
Some Ideas for Lecturing
A list of key traits that comprises a
successful lecture; developed by University of
Minnesota Center for Teaching
and Learning.
Quick, Before It Dries:
Setting the Pattern for Active Participation From Day One
Students make up their minds about a course and an instructor within the first few minutes of the first class. "The initial session is not an oil painting that we can come back to at leisure for touching up; it is an artwork in fast-drying plaster that needs to be shaped carefully and quickly before the whole course sets..." -Steve Adams, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Guide to Learning Styles
A survey used to determine learning styles, also, study, and instruction strategies for each.