Session: Research Posters

Paper Number: 119303

119303 - Active Learning in an Online Environment 

This poster presentation is a follow-up of a publication from 2014, wherein the author initially proposed certain ideas.   For sake of completeness, those ideas are reproduced below.   However, this time, the author provides an analysis of the data he has collected.  He also tries to outline how one can improve upon the feedback one receives.      

·         Encourage students to write a detailed, analytical report correlating classroom discussions to an important historical event or a current event.

·         Motivate students interview an expert from industry on a topic that was discussed in class. Ask the students to submit a report with supporting sketches, drawings, circuit diagrams and graphs.

·         Propose that the students generate a complete a set of reading responses pertaining to an assigned topic.

·         Require each student to bring in one comment or one question about an assigned reading. The assignment should be a recent publication in an appropriate journal.

·         Have the students conduct a web search on an assigned topic. Ask them to generate a set of ideas that can relate to classroom discussions.

·         Provide the students with a study guide. The study guide should provide about 10 or 15 short topics. Quiz the students on one or two of the topics.

·         Encourage the students to design or develop some creative real-world examples based on a chapter discussed or a topic of interest.

·         Require that students originate, develop, support and defend a viewpoint using a specifically assigned material.

·         Make the students practice using or utilizing a set off new technical terms they have encountered in an assigned chapter. Have students develop original examples explaining the different terms.

·         Ask the students to select one important terminology from the previous classroom discussions. Encourage the students to explain why they selected that particular word. Ask them to talk about the importance of the terminology from the point of view of their educational objectives and future career.

 

In order to get more creative ideas, please refer to these publications.

 

Angelo, T. A. (1991). Ten easy pieces: Assessing higher learning in four dimensions. In T. A. Angelo (Ed.),  Classroom research: Early lessons from success (pp. 17-31).  New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 46.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Costello, M. L., & Brunner, P. W. (2008).  Helping students adapt to an empowered classroom.   Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 19 (1), 63-79.

 

Gray, T.  & Madson, L.  (2007).  Ten easy ways to engage your students. College Teaching, 55,  83-87.

 

King, A. (1994). Inquiry as a tool in critical thinking. In F. Halpern (Ed.), Changing college classrooms: New teaching and learning strategies for an increasingly complex world (pp. 13-38).  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Michael, J. (2007). Faculty perceptions about barriers to active learning. College Teaching, 55, 42-47.

 

Narayanan, Mysore (2014).  Writing Assignments that Promote Active Learning.   Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2014, abstract id. ED11B-3421  and  many other ASEE publications by the author. 

 

Richlin, L., Wentzell, G. W., & Cox, M. D. (2008). Empowering students and faculty: A message from the editors. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 19 (1), 1-4.

 

Valde, G. (1997). Promoting student participation and learning through the use of weekly writing assignments. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 8 (3), 67-76.

 

Presenting Author: MYSORE NARAYANAN MIAMI UNIVERSITY

Presenting Author Biography: N/A

Authors:

MYSORE NARAYANAN MIAMI UNIVERSITY