Lunch & Learn: Active Learning Techniques

Description

The Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation and the Teaching Academy invite you to a Lunch and Learn session entitled "Active Learning Techniques: Advice and Guidance from Experienced Faculty." Hear from experienced faculty about how they use active learning approaches in their classrooms and walk away with activities that you can implement during your next course session.

What is Active Learning? How do you implement it? What are activities that support it? How can you become an Active Learning practitioner in a short period of time? Broadly defined, active learning requires "students to construct knowledge, integrate knew knowledge with prior knowledge, and organize information in their memory," as Amedee Martella, a cognitive scientist, describes it in a recent article for The Chronicle of Education. But what does that look like in the classroom? (If you have students do pair or group work, then you're probably already doing it.) And does it require a complete course re-design? (The majority of time, no; minor shifts can be enough.)

Faculty panelists:

• Michael Falk, vice dean of undergraduate education and professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering
• Nate Brown, senior lecturer, University Writing Program, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
• Robert Leheny, professor and department chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences