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ABLConnect is an online database of active learning efforts in post-secondary classrooms. ABLConnect is curated by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University. ABLConnect lets educators easily search the ideas of others in a...

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Active Learning Approaches and Ideas MIT OpenCourseWare: The OCW Educator project offers a series of videos on active learning featuring Janet Rankin, the Interim Director of the MIT Teaching and Learning Laboratory and her course "Teaching College-Level...

Drawing Our Galaxy

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In this activity, students will create an illustration of the Milky Way galaxy from multiple perspectives. Goals: Students will create an illustration of the Milky Way galaxy. The audience for this illustration is that of a high school senior, with a...

Going Digital

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The need to re-configure courses online provides an exciting opportunity to bring activity-based learning principles into the classroom. Many activities can be easily adopted into the digital classroom, while some may require more extensive planning...

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ABLConnect is an initiative of Harvard's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, in collaboration with the following schools and organizations. Center for Scientific Teaching at Yale: The Center for Scientific Teaching at Yale works to "transform...

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Farm to Fork Project

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Students apply what they have learned in the classroom to their own dinner plates by creating a meal based on principles of health and sustainability that are attentive to personal, local, and global considerations. Goals: more deeply understand what...

Indexing Lectures

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In this activity, lectures were indexed by topic and posted online so that students could re-watch segments on specific topics. In Math 23b, Professor Paul Bamberg offered students extra credit for indexing lecture. They would create a document giving the...

Final Project Video Presentations

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Students created videos describing their final projects on language and identity in Latin America so that their peers could view them outside of class and provide feedback. Goals: To allow student to consolidate their ideas, share their project with the...

Political Divide Blog Post

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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...

Paper Presentations and Discussions

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In OEB 119: Deep Sea Biology, groups of students have to present and lead discussions on scientific papers throughout the semester. Before class each week, all students have to read an assigned scientific paper and post a summary paragraph and two...

Debate

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Debates as a teaching tool can be traced back to ancient Greece, with the Sophists, Protagoras, and Aristotle as the earliest pioneers (Vo & Morris, 2006). Today, debates exist in countless forms in any society, ranging from government debates, court...