Last year I applied for and received a LITE Seed Grant to add some new techniques to STAT 334. The three main things I added were interactive tutorials, a case study competition, and oral exams. I'll talk about each one in a different post.
Part 1: Interactive Tutorial Activities
Different instructors use tutorials in different ways, but for me the most effective way is to give the students...
I used Lego in a grad level ActSci course and it was great!
I'm teaching ACTSC 635: Actuarial Communications, a small class, and we did an interactive kinesthetic learning activity (similar to Lego Serious Play).
Phase 1: Written communication only (in partners)
Each student received a different Lego structure
They had 15 minutes to write instructions for building it
They built their partner's structure from the instructions
Not surprisingly, this was very difficult, and only 3 out of 18 got it.
