Tag engagement

Community Seminar

Designing Engaging Online Discussions

Perched seagulls with mouths open as if chatting

Discussion is such a natural tool of engagement in our face-to-face classrooms, but it often feels flat or obligatory online. How can we create engaging online discussions with our students? What tools and practices are available? Join Debbie Mekiana (ANS)…

UAF CTL Staff
February 26, 2021

Emerging ideas, Teaching Tips

Building student engagement with Zoom

A 3x3 grid of illustrated people who look as if they are tuned into a web meeting.

We’ve all become Zoom experts in the last 10 months. But we’ve also gotten used to the platform and how we use it. Could we be more creative? What could we change about how we use this tool to create more meaningful synchronous experiences for our students?

klnewman4
February 9, 2021
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Teaching Tips

Augmented Reality and Learning

Using Augmented Reality as a framework for learning activities can be an exciting way to engage students in drawing real-world connections with class content. In this Teaching Tip Live, we will be discussing how faculty at UAF are using Augmented…

UAF CTL Staff
April 3, 2015

Pedagogy, Teaching Tips

Exam review – strategies for better engagement

Many classes have an exam scheduled around the middle of the term. Having a review session before an exam can be a good way to reinforce the main ideas that you’re trying to get across to your students. Although cramming for exams does not promote good practices for long-term learning, studies do show that having some kind of review before an exam can improve test scores.

UAF CTL Staff
March 3, 2015