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Date: 25 February 2017
On the MIT OpenCourseWare site, Dr. Janet Rankin describes the use of active learning in teaching college-level science and engineering.
Date: 24 February 2017
On the MIT OpenCourseWare site, Dr. Janet Rankin describes the use of mud cards to elicit student questions.
Date: 24 February 2017
On the MIT OpenCourseWare site, Dr. Janet Rankin describes the use of the jigsaw strategy to support student learning.
Date: 24 February 2017
On the MIT OpenCourseWare site, Dr. Janet Rankin describes the use of the think-pair-share strategy.
Date: 24 February 2017
On the MIT OpenCourseWare site, Dr. Janet Rankin describes the use of the beach ball strategy to elicit student contributions to discussion.
Date: 24 February 2017
On the MIT OpenCourseWare site, Dr. Janet Rankin describes the use of the lightning round strategy.
Date: 24 February 2017
On the MIT OpenCourseWare site, Dr. Janet Rankin describes the use of debate to engage students.
Date: 24 February 2017
On the MIT OpenCourseWare site, Dr. Janet Rankin describes the use of the personal response systems to gauge student comprehension.
Date: 1 February 2017
Emmanuel Sachs, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, discusses why we need to teach engineering students and engineers to do both synthesis and analysis. He argues that we need to encourage students to create their own knowledge scaffold.
Date: 1 February 2017
MIT Professor Lorna Gibson explains how she shifted her Materials Science course from a traditional lecture format to a flipped classroom.
Date: 1 February 2017
Denny Freeman, professor of electrical engineering at MIT, discusses task-based, task-centered learning.
Date: 23 November 2016
Jeff Gore provides concrete examples of how he incorporates Active Learning into his Systems Biology course.
Date: 22 November 2016
Professor Steven Hall discusses active learning in his Aeronautics and Astronautics course.
Date: 3 March 2016
Elizabeth Huttner-Loan describes the use of forums in several educational technology MOOCs run on the edX platform.