Active Learning: Ways to Engage Students Inside and Outside the Classroom

2,782 views · Published 2 August 2016 · 2:30:59 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: ASM - Microbes Make Our World · 2016 · Science & Technology

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Rachel Gordon from Columbia University School of Medicine speaks about a variety of tested active learning methods and ways to incorporate them in one’s class in with a focus on interactive, online environments. She presents data on student attention and explains the best time frame to engage students in an activity such as audience polling (every 8-10 minutes, if not more often). She also presents techniques such as Just in Time Teaching and online case studies.  Finally, she highlights the benefits of blogging as a method for faculty to share resources with students and teaching techniques with one another 

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