Webinar: Converting Classroom Active Learning Activities to Online

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Traditionally, active learning has been associated with the face-to-face classroom, and many online courses focus on more traditional activities like watching videos and taking online quizzes. However, with the push for an online biology degree at the ASU School of Life Sciences, it is vital that techniques that focus on student-centered learning and collaborative/peer engagement be integrated into our new online courses.

This webinar focused on taking activities that are used in a traditional classroom, and translating them into online activities with the use of web apps and some restructuring.  One of the examples shared included changing a typical minute paper written before students left a class, into an interactive video post, asking students to answer a prompt with their own videos using FlipGrid.

Another example showed participants how Google slides and Padlet could replace post-it note activities that allow students to group, categorize and make connections between topics.

A recording of the session, and our resources are shown below.

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RESOURCES:

• Recording of webinar
• Slide Deck
• Article: Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics
• Website: Active Learning Strategies
•  Examples:
• FlipGrid: http://www.flipgrid.com
• Code is: C09051
• Password: OneMinutePaper
• Padlet
• Bubbl.us
• Google Matrix