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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Interdisciplinary Health science

Role Reveal 201: Exploring Interdisciplinary Collaboration

In teams, students from each discipline complete a patient interview then contrast their approaches.

Interdisciplinary Health science

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

Interdisciplinary Health science

Team Dynamics Rx (Part 2): Motivating Change For Better Health

In teams, students learn through role play to effectively motivate a client to want to change

Interdisciplinary Health science

Team Dynamics Rx (Part 1): Building Trust for Better Patient Outcomes

In teams, students learn through role play to effectively work together as a team and to build trust with a patient

Interdisciplinary Health science

Collaborative VeinVentures: Mastering Blood Draws Together

In teams, students read through a script, role play drawing blood, and discuss issues that arise between professions

Languages Interdisciplinary

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

Physics Interdisciplinary STEM

How to Write Reading Annotations

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Peer Review

Interdisciplinary

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

STEM Engineering

Mine Ventilation Design

STEM Engineering

Engineering Ethics

STEM Engineering

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

STEM Engineering

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

STEM Engineering

Talk to Your Neighbour