Day 4: “We are halfway through the semester, is there anything we can do?”
Posted onIn this final post, we will provide tips and tricks on how to tweak your courses to encourage engagement.
Category: Engagement
Learning outcomes
– Create opportunities for student engagement and active learning in your course
– Evaluate how students are engaging in your course
– Identify strategies and opportunities to improve communication and engagement
Day 3: How can design for engagement?
Posted onOn day 3, we will provide some practical ways to help you plan and design your course to incorporate student engagement.
Day 2: How can we identify disengagement?
Posted onFor day 2, we will discuss ways of identifying “disengaged” students and how we can intervene to help these students get back on track.
Day 1: Why is engagement important?
Posted onIn this post, we will briefly define different forms of engagement and ask participants to reflect on their teaching practice: how are you engaging your students presently?
Engaging the Disengaged: Strategies to Reinvigorate Learning
Posted onWith the pandemic, many courses have been forced to move online. This has presented new challenges on many fronts from content creation and delivery to changes in contact hours, and disruption to planned activities and assessments. It has left many of us frazzled and shifted us away from familiar teaching […]
Day 4: The student. What can students do to make their learning more effective?
Posted onPost written by guest authors Alexandra Webb, Lillian Smyth and Kat Esteves, ANU Medical School. In this final day of the course, we are going to explore 3 evidence-based strategies for students to use to learn effectively and consider how we can support and encourage students to adopt these […]
Day 3: The teacher. What evidence-based strategies can teachers integrate into their educational practice to enhance student learning?
Posted onPost written by guest authors Alexandra Webb, Lillian Smyth and Kat Esteves, ANU Medical School. One of my daughter’s perennial-favourite books ‘You Can’t Take a Balloon Into the Metropolitan Museum’ is composed of PICTURES ONLY…..NO WORDS! So instead of reading words, the ‘reader’ is required to use the images […]
Day 2: The educational environment. How do we create an environment that is conducive to learning?
Posted onPost written by guest authors Alexandra Webb, Lillian Smyth and Kat Esteves, ANU Medical School. Rembrandt’s ‘The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp’ (1632) visually demonstrates 3 important considerations when designing your educational environment to ensure it is conducive to student learning. 1. It matters how your learning environment […]
Day 1: Let’s bust some myths about learning. What is learning? What myths do we need to bust before we begin exploring effective learning strategies?
Posted onPost written by guest authors Alexandra Webb, Lillian Smyth and Kat Esteves, ANU Medical School. How much do you know about the science behind the learning theories and paradigms you apply in the classroom? Let’s look at some common teaching beliefs and where they come from. Let’s unpack […]
Day 3: Creating a community of inquiry across all teaching and learning modes
Posted onStudents living through the lock down Reading through the major ANU survey of student experience during the pandemic lockdown at ANU is instructive. Some key quotes from the qualitative data are particularly revealing. (Please note this survey has not had a report published as yet, but once a report is […]