Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) and Flexible Classrooms (FCs) promote collaboration, engagement, and technology-enabled learning. These spaces encourage peer and team-based learning, shifting students from passive recipients to active co-creators. Effective use involves fostering group work, accountability, and adaptable instructional strategies that enhance participation and deepen learning outcomes.
Blended Learning and Educational Technologies
As Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) reshapes higher education, instructors must rethink their assessment approaches. This teaching tip presents a modified AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) as a framework for integrating GenAI into assessment design.
Encourage thoughtful dialogue and set clear expectations around the use of generative AI tools in academic work, with strategies to support transparency, integrity, and student learning.
Support reflective learning and showcase student growth with ePortfolios.
Create a focused and respectful learning environment by setting clear expectations for technology use, encouraging purposeful engagement, and fostering dialogue about digital distractions and academic responsibility.
Games can introduce goals, interaction, feedback, problem solving, competition, narrative, and fun learning environments, elements that can increase learner engagement and sustain motivation.
Make your video content more inclusive with tips for creating accurate, accessible transcripts and captions that support diverse learners and meet accessibility standards.
Maximize the flipped classroom model by designing online activities and assessments that prepare students for in-class engagement, reinforce key concepts, and promote self-directed, active learning.
Visualize and organize complex ideas using concept mapping tools that highlight relationships and connections between key course concepts.
Support student learning and project planning by integrating timeline tools that clarify expectations, visualize progress, and encourage time management through structured milestones and deadlines.