Active learning is a process whereby students engage in activities, such as reading, writing, discussion, or problem solving that promote analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of class content.
The Group Presentations activity intends to encourage students to participate in team work either through multiple channels or multiple locations. The activity is developed over a number of weeks and is designed to be scaffolded by the work done in lectures and tutorials as the course develops.
Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for Diagnostic Testing measures student understanding of concepts in a course. It allows for the identification of strengths, weaknesses, and misconceptions in student knowledge and skill.
Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for End of Workshop Review Questions is deployed to review learning at the close of a
workshop or workshop series.
Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for End of Module Review Questions allows students to assess their progress in relation to specific content and set goals for learning toward final assessments and course completion.
Should I Have a Portfolio activity enables students to consider the potential and use of a portfolio for their learning and career. For more information about the ways that this can be achieved visit Teaching with Technology, ePortfolios.
Rules of Engagement activity intends to develop student responsibility of organising group work and living up to their responsibilities to the group. This is achieved by having the team members define roles and responsibilities (rules of engagement). The most appropriate tool for this activity is a Google Doc although a course wiki may also be used.
Online testing with Blackboard Mobile Learn - Formative Assessment is deployed to reinforce student learning process using a mobile device (smart phone, tablet etc). This activity is designed to modify teaching and learning activities.
Learning Catalytics (LC) gives students the opportunity to articulate their thinking, listen to contrary views and move to deeper conceptual understanding. It develops problem solving skills and long term retention.
Gamification - Analytical Exercises enables students to cooperate in teams and combine individual assessment scores of the weekly tutorial analytics tasks and discussion activities in an online leaderboard. The leaderboard indicates the progress towards certain benchmarks and enables the tracking of completed activities.
Gamification: Achievement Unlocked engages students to self-assess their knowledge and progress, and reflect on presented course content. As part of a gamified system educators create or reframe each of 3 online non-assessment quizzes as missions. Successful completion of each mission levels a student up towards unlocking bonus support/learning materials and resources.
