Active Learning Links

Interactive Teaching Resources

Harvard University: http://ablconnect.harvard.edu

University of South Florida - a great list of interactive learning techniques: http://www.usf.edu/atle/teaching/interactive-techniques.aspx

Minute Papers/MUD Cards - CETL-UIC. A quick way to get info on student understanding, & feedback on classroom techniques: http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~bshipley/MinutePaper.pdf

Carl Weimann - Clicker Resources (scroll down to: clicker question collections - for a sorted-by-subject list): http://www.cwsei.ubc.ca/resources/clickers.htm

University of Arizona: http://math.arizona.edu/~lomen/Using%20ConcepTests%20in%20Single%20andMultivariable%20Calculus.pdf

Cornell - Mathematics Department - Good Questions Project: http://www.math.cornell.edu/~GoodQuestions/index.html

Concept Questions in Computer Science, CS Department - UCSD: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~bsimon/ICER2011_PI/Computer_Architecture_Iso.pdf

The Economics Network - Student Motivation and Active Learning: http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/themes/activelearning

Active Learning Ideas for Econ Classes - Sarah M. Harvieux - Centre College: http://web.centre.edu/econed/Pages/active.htm

Peer Instruction in CS: http://www.peerinstruction4cs.org/general-pi-tips/

Julie Schell - Turn to Your Neighbor Blog: http://blog.peerinstruction.net/2014/03/12/peer-instruction-with-a-twist-of-innovation-and-a-social-studies-teacher/ (this is just 1 post - but the whole blog is useful)

Engaging Students with Active Learning - Campus Technology: http://campustechnology.com/articles/2015/04/15/engaging-students-with-active-learning?utm_campaign=Thought%20Leadership&utm_content=14668872&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&m=2

Carl Wieman, Change, Sept/Oct 2007: Why not try a scientific approach to science education?

Scott Freeman, Sarah L. Eddy, Miles McDonough, Michelle K. Smith, Nnadozie Okoroafor, Hannah Jordt and Mary Pat Wenderoth, Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/05/08/1319030111.full.pdf+html

Richard Hake, Interactive-engagement vs. traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses, American Journal of Physics v66 p64-74 (1998): http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi/ajpv3i.pdf

Less teaching, more learning: 10-yr study supports increasing student learning through less coverage and more inquiry: http://advan.physiology.org/content/36/4/325.long

TEAL: Technology-Enabled Active Learning @ MIT - info and assessments:

An overview of 8.02 TEAL

2010 Article from The Tech

Improving Students' Understsnding of Electromagnetism through Visualizations - A Large Scale Study, Y.J. Dori, and J. Belcher, MIT.

Karl A. Smith, Sheri D. Sheppard, David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson: Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom-Based Practices, Journal of Engineering Education, January 2005, 87

Ronald K. Thornton, David R. Sokoloff, Assessing student learning of Newton's laws: The Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation and the Evaluation of Active Learning Laboratory and Lecture Curricula, Am. J. Phys.66(4) p. 338-352 (1998)

Richard F. Yuretich, Samia A. Khan, R. Mark Leckie, John J. Clement, Active-Leaning Methods to Improve Student Performance and Scienctific Interest in a Large Introductory Oceanography Course, Journal of Geoscience Education, 649, n. 2, (2001) p.111-119

Carleton College website on interactive learning (this site has some great examples of the Jigsaw method (along with others) - look in the left-side bar).

Jennifer K. Knight and William B. Wood, Teaching more by lecturing less, CBE—Life Sciences Education , Vol. 4, No. 4 (2017)

Jennifer Nelson, Diane F. Robinson, John D. Bell, and William S. Bradshaw, Cloning the Professor, an Alternative to Ineffective Teaching in a Large Course, CBE—Life Sciences Education Vol. 8, No. 3 (2017)

Alternatives to dedicated personal response systems (aka, "clickers")