The One-Sentence Summary By: Michelle Rogers-Johnson, Ph.D. Educational Specialist The one-sentence summary is one of many strategies instructors can use to engage students in thinking about the content and assess learning. The strategy consists of a series of questions students answer to demonstrate their understanding of a process or concept. One sentence summaries typically include several of the following prompts: When teaching a large quantity of information—especially complex information, this strategy can help students synthesize and focus on the most important points.
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Digital Accessibility Step-by-StepBy: Vanessa Preast, Ph.D., DVM
Digital Accessibility & Instructional Specialist Today’s step: Setting an accessible font as an email default. The step-by-step series presents something you can do in 5 minutes or less to contribute to accessibility. Accessibility Tip: Choose a simple font that you can see the difference between the number 1 the capital I and the lowercase l Instructions for default email font
4 C's For DiscussionBy: Alecia Gardner
Educational Specialist The students we serve are a new generation of learners, who are more connected to the world than ever before. Therefore, as educators, we need to provide students with opportunities to participate in the global community. Finding success in our global society requires students to be creative, think critically, communicate with others, and collaborate around a shared vision. So, let’s increase their odds of success by building in the 4C's of 21st Century Learing with active learning and discussion. We can do this by giving them time to communicate, collaborate, and to think creatively and critically together. As an educator you can promote this type of learning in three easy steps.
Active Learning: Does It Work? By: Brian Pinney, Ph.D.
Educational Specialist Active learning is all the rage these days, but just like any possible education fad, one must ask: does it work? Prior to putting in the effort to integrate more active learning teaching in your lessons, this is a critical question. The short answer is: it depends. Our first challenge in answering this question is actually understanding what is meant by “active learning” in the literature. This joins other such terms as “problem-based learning” or “inquiry” (Woods et al., 2000). Active learning is somewhat poorly defined as any instructional method that engages students in the learning process (Bonwell & Eison, 1991). There are obviously clarifications of this depending on the author you are reading. It is critical to note that learning is an active process. Whether or not students are engaged in “active learning” the act of learning is active. This misnomer is one of my bigger pet peeves but that is a topic for a different writing. |
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