Educational research is clear: the traditional teacher-centered lecture format is not highly effective with regards to student learning outcomes. This presentation presents a few ways to interactively "bust up" lectures. Note that this ppt show is not meant to stand alone-- it is just one part of an interactive, face-to-face presentation.

1. Lecture Busters Keeping Students Engaged Dr Hugh Crumley Center for Instructional Technology

2. Lectures: true or false? Students maintain attention for about 40 min Students forget most things learned in lectures Pauses in lectures for discussion increase retention

4. Forget most things Students forget most things learned in lectures?

5. Pauses in lectures for discussion increase retention?

7. Kolb’s Experiential Learning (1984) Experience Reflect Conceptualize Experiment Kolb, D. A. (1984) Experiential Learning , Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice Hall.

10. CATs: Think Pair Share

11. CATs: Minute Papers

16. WHY?

22. Analog works too.

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24. Elected in November?