Academic Discovery - Essential Skills in Active Facilitation of Active Learning

On successful completion of the program participants will be able to:

• facilitate teaching and learning approaches to influence, motivate and inspire students to engage in active learning in a range of educational settings.
• design learning activities that influence and enhance collaborative thinking and learning in the pre-class, in-class and post-class environments.
• apply digital technologies, particularly, social media tools and video to reinforce community learning through discussion, collaboration, and purposeful discourse.

The specific learning outcomes of each module of the program are:

Module 1 (Active Facilitation And Implementing Active Learning strategies)

• Review understanding of Active Learning and Active Facilitation strategies
• Develop skills to conduct  active learning sessions and implement active learning Pedagogies for small groups for future teaching practice.

Module 2 (Planning & Designing For Enhancing/Transforming Your Unit through Pre-, In-& Post-Class Activities)

• Identify  areas of a unit that have potential for active learning.
• Develop complex learning activities such as peer-led team learning and problem based learning using Bloom's taxonomy
• Design an active learning lesson planner with learning activities that influence and enhance collaborative thinking in the Pre-class, In-Class and Post-class environments

Module 3 (Designing learning activities for Engaging Students in Large Classes)

• Differentiate convergent and divergent questioning techniques and design appropriate divergent questions that stimulate and develop collaborative thinking in discussions.
• apply strategies to build interaction and collaboration (student-student, student-content, student-facilitator)  among students in large classes
• use educational technologies and tools to facilitate active learning in large classes

Module 4 (Flipping Your Classroom Through Blended Learning To Maximize The Student Experience)

• Transform traditional lecturing sessions by flipping your classroom using active blended learning approaches
• Use digital technologies for peer-learning and and peer-assessment to maximize student experience
• Formulate and apply strategies to get students actively involved in pre-class activities (online) for the flipped classroom

Module 5 (Effective use of videos in Active Learning)

• Apply various technological tools available for creating interactive videos to support Active Learning.
• Integrate interactive videos with other learning activities in a lesson plan to support active learning.