Interactive Techniques

This paper list multiple different interactive techniques that help students learn by being engaged and attentive. These techniques are often perceived as “fun”, yet they are frequently more effective than lectures at enabling student learning.

Interactive techniques have multiple benefits: the instructor can easily and quickly
assess if students have really mastered the material (and plan to dedicate more
time to it, if necessary), and the process of measuring student understanding in
many cases is also practice for the material—often students do not actually learn
the material until asked to make use of it in assessments such as these. Finally,
the very nature of these assessments drives interactivity and brings several
benefits. Students are revived from their passivity of merely listening to a lecture
and instead become attentive and engaged, two prerequisites for effective
learning. These techniques are often perceived as “fun”, yet they are frequently
more effective than lectures at enabling student learning.

https://www.usf.edu/atle/documents/handout-interactive-techniques.pdf

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