An Interactive Tutorial

This tutorial is designed to assist you in gathering practical knowledge from each video and to help you identify how you can best use the insights gained to enhance student learning in your teaching practices. We encourage you to note your answers to the questions as you watch each video segment. You can thus compare earlier answers to later responses, encourage a colleague to view the clips and compare responses, and review your initial thoughts as you continue to design your course or as you teach. We suggest you note your answers right into the tutorial as the questions are asked, and save them to your hard drive for later review.

For your convenience, you can access the turorial in two formats:

1. To view the entire tutorial in Word format, download the attached Word document to your computer while your Internet connection is also open. Video clips are available on the Word document.

Videos 1-3: Using Clickers (classroom remote systems)

In videos #1-3, instructor Mary Gruhl, Ph.D., of Environmental Sciences, explains the difference clickers (student response systems) have made in her large classes and on exams, and demonstrates how she uses them to implement pre-and post-assessments of student understanding.

Videos 4-7: Teams, Discussions, and In-Class Activities

In video #4, Kelly Ottman, Ph.D., School of Business , and her TAs introduce the key feature of student teams, how they impact student learning and accountability, and the logistics of managing 50+ small learning teams in her 300+ lecture.

Videos #5-7 capture her integration of large group teams, discussions, and active learning exercises, and demonstrate how she moves adroitly between active learning and traditional lecture approaches.