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This course designed a set of interactive, hands-on, in-class activities designed to allow students to explore concepts before they were rigorously presented in lecture. Goal : The objective for the near-weekly in-class activities is to get students...

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...

This in-class activity is designed to challenge students to work through problem sets during the entire class period. Using a topic in class, the instructor formulates an activity sheet based on the topic. Activity: Applied Math Activity Goal/s: To enable...

By splitting students into three, distinct Late Roman Republic groups (Optimates, Populares, and Moderates), the instructor had students developed personas based on their assignments through the Twitter platform. Activity: Roman History through Twitter...

This in-class activity is part of a public health course that incorporates assessment questions throughout the lecture as an activity-based learning technique. Activity: Intro to Data Science Lecture Goal/s: To allow both the student and the teaching...

In this single-class activity, students receive a lab handout with background information about the dissections for the day, which include bolded terms/anatomical features that they are expected to know for a following practical exam in that topic...

This particular single-class activity got students acquainted with confidence intervals using a simple iPad and the attached handout. Activity: Complex Stats, Simple Tech Goal/s: The goal of the activity was to get the students comfortable with...

This activity makes use of a mad lib game to reinforce logical computation steps that are crucial in formal semantics. Goal: To help students practice definitions and computation steps in a fun, interactive setting. Background: This in-class activity was...

Students learn how to solve practice problems in physics through videos created by the instructor using cheap and simple screencast technology. Goals: To help students progress from understanding physics concepts and formulas to knowing how to apply them...