3B: Designing for Student Engagement

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Module 3A: Intro to Active Student Engagement |  Module 3B: Designing for Engagement  |  Module 3C: Test Out Active Engagement

 Expected Time for Module 3B: 1-2 Hours

Module 3B Description: In module 3B you will continue digging deeper into active learning, but now you will also think about how active learning activities could be integrated with your flipped lecture ideas. The online lecture video and in-class active learning activities must work together and be integrated so that students learn content and concepts and then apply that knowledge in the F2F/online classroom. Reflect on the video ideas you worked on in Module 2 and then extend that by connecting the lecture to active learning applications. In this part of module 3 you will brainstorm ideas for how to make the connection of the video lecture and the active learning activities transparent and visible to students.

 Module 3B Objectives:  At the end of this module, participants will have:

• Worked on brainstorming ideas for engaged learning activities that extend and reinforce learning begun with the online videos
• Gathered feedback from peers about their activity learning designs

Examples of How Engaged Learning Looks

Managing active learning in a large 3-hour large classroom Links to an external site.Active Learning in Science Links to an external site.Team-Based Learning Example in Medicine Links to an external site.Combining lecture and active learning Links to an external site. 

1. Browse Ideas 
   Browse some of the articles below about engaging students in active learning in your discipline to get ideas you could use or adapt based on your particular context or situation.
   

   • ABL Connect Links to an external site.- an Activity-Based Learning Database from Harvard

   • It is not just about "using" active strategies in your class, but rethinking what your role is in the classroom (Activating 'mindshare' in your classroom Links to an external site. - article from Harvard)

   • Active Learning from the University of Utah's CTLE

   • FTLC at Salt Lake Community College

   • Resource page from the University of Minnesota

   • Annotated flipped resources blog Links to an external site.

   • Need the 'proof' that Active Learning works, plus a long list of strategies and their documentation?  Engage to Excel (White House report 2012)

   • Using engaging activities in the online classroom http://www.icte.org/T01_Library/T01_245.pdf
2. Designing an Engaging Learning Activity for the F2F or Online Classroom
   
   Designing an engaging learning activity involves reflecting on 4 components of the learning activity (see the diagram to the right)
   

   • Writing an outcome or objective for the F2F or online learning activity

   • Relating the flipped lecture content/topic (usually presentation or demonstration) directly to the learning activity

   • Providing opportunities for practice "using the lecture content" with feedback, and peer engagement, and
     

   • Documenting the assessment of learning (How did engaging actively with the online video content, deepen the student's learning experience?)
     

   
   In a flipped classroom, the content information is often presented in the form of online lectures, readings, videos, etc. which you worked on designing and creating in the last module.
   
   In this 3B module, concentrate on designing engaging learning activities for the F2F or online classroom that extend, enhance the video content. You may also need to gather or produce additional informational materials and media to help students use, apply, or synthesize that lecture content in the F2F classroom.
   
   Students gain deeper understanding by participating in graded or non-graded activities or exercises that engage them with the content and their peers. You could also think about how students will receive feedback or coaching and have opportunities to practice in the F2F or online session. Here is a template you can use to think through the design of the F2F or Online Learning Activity Download template you can use to think through the design of the F2F or Online Learning Activity
   . Here is an example of a learning design plan I have used for a flipped qualitative research course.

    

3. INTERACT WITH PEERS
   Use this 3B Discussion Forum to post your learning activity design ideas and gather feedback from your peers. You can download the template and use it to articulate your learning engagement plan, or just summarize your plan in the discussion. The purpose of this discussion for this part of module 3 is to gather feedback from your peers about your ideas for learning design ideas.
   

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