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One way to get students engaged in learning is by getting them to self-test and generate their own questions. Goal : To enhance learning that occurs in passive lectures by engaging students in question-generation. Background : The instructor created a...

This activity equips students with communication skills necessary for impromptu public speaking. Goal : To enable students to gain practice applying public speaking skills To provide students with an opportunity to reflect on how to communicate...

Students in a course on human usability of websites implement a semester-long project to analyze and propose a redesign of an existing badly-designed website. Goals: to build students’ confidence in their ability to complete a complicated, long-term...

Students visited a variety of community institutions across the neighborhood and contributed pictures and observations to an online map of Dorchester. Goals: The primary goals of the activity were three-fold. First, the digital ethnographic map provided...

In Psychology of the Political Left and Right, Sasha Kimel challenges her students to create a blog post that helps develop their awareness of how the political divide affects one's psychological processes, like behaviors, thoughts, feelings, and more...

This is an in-section activity created by John Huth for his Primitive Navigation course where students walk small distances and use their analysis to learn small angle approximation, statistics, and prepares them for future assignments. In section, the...

This was a semester long project. Throughout the semester, graduate students (many of whom had little previous exposure to the course material) studied the history of Chinese music theory, the Jesuit missionaries who transmitted it back to western Europe...

Benjamin Weber created an activity that spans across the entire class to help students understand the concept of “diaspora” through constant reiteration of concepts from some excerpts given to the class by the instructor. Students learned how to close...

Elizabeth Petrik, a graduate teaching fellow for Physics 15c, created this Mathematica activity to help students build physical and quantitative intuition about wave dispersion. The usage of Mathematica in this activity allows for students to not only...

Emily Russell designed this for Physics 95: Topics in Current Research aimed towards junior and senior concentrators in Physics. Students were encouraged to develop their skills in explaining complicated physics topics in layman’s terms through a short...