Active Learning Activities

Active learning activities are tailored to specific learning outcomes and content. They incorporate one or more of the evidence-based strategies. Structured to expose their theoretical underpinnings, the activities can be used by practitioners and researchers alike.

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Humanities Social sciences

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

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Languages and Literature

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

These gamified activities will help sensitize students to the nuances of diction and allow them to work together.

Languages and Literature

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Languages and Literature

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

Health science Interdisciplinary

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

Humanities Interdisciplinary

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Languages and Literature

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Engineering STEM

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Engineering STEM

Peer Review Calibration and Constructive Feedback Workshop

Engineering STEM

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

Student writing on a piece of paper
Engineering STEM

Piece of Paper Question