Using technology to engage students

Presentation Date: 

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Location: 

Pearson Education Instructor Tools Workshop (Boston, MA)

Presentation Slides: 

It has been suggested the lack of interaction in large lecture courses is to blame for the many problems facing these courses: declining enrollments, low attendance, poor evaluations, and disappointing retention. We offer a way of redesigning the classroom so interaction is introduced in many aspects of the course. This approach has shown to be effective by many instructors in a broad variety of environments. I will demonstrate some of the tools we have developed to foster this interaction.