Category Archives: Pedagogy

Peer mentoring: Strengthening student learning

Posted on July 28, 2009 by pdyjur

Bryanne Young has written a tip sheet on curricular peer mentoring, a program that “enables students to work together to delve deeper and more analytically into course content”. Peer mentors are not TAs, but students who can help guide their … Continue reading →

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Some guidelines for implementing active learning strategies

Posted on May 19, 2009 by pdyjur

After sitting through a couple of workshops that used active learning strategies with varying success, I drafted the following guidelines for facilitators. Feel free to add your own to this list: Icebreaker activities are a great way to build community … Continue reading →

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Teach large classes

Posted on April 23, 2009 by lyu

Large enrollment classes have always been a challenge for instructors who try to implement active teaching and learning strategies and activities. Lectures, often contrasted to active learning, appear to dominate large size classrooms today. From the conversations that I had … Continue reading →

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Links from George Siemens’ Presentation

Posted on March 11, 2009 by D'Arcy Norman

George Siemens (Associate Director of the University of Manitoba Learning Technologies Centre) was on campus on March 11 to give a presentation at the Teaching & Learning Centre, on “The Social Technology Revolution – Tensions and Solutions”. He talked about … Continue reading →

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How to get students to find and read 94 articles before the next class

Posted on February 2, 2009 by D'Arcy Norman

Professor Michael Wesch, of Kansas State University, recently described how his students distributed the tasks of finding and reviewing articles, and then sharing their summaries so that in effect, all students were aware of the content of all articles summarized. The key: … Continue reading →

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