A copy of the presentation I designed and delivered at Engage 2018, the Conference for Higher Education Innovators

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Housekeeping: Before Our Session
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2. Workshop: Creating an Active
Learning Environment During Class
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3. Today’s Speaker: Vince De Freitas
Vince De Freitas
Senior Instructional Designer
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4. 1) best practices
2) real-time formative
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active learning
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5. Discussion & Attendance
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6. Pop Quiz!
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8. Login & Course Creation
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9. Activity: Logging in and setting up a new course
Step 1: Login to Top Hat
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Step 2: Build a New Course
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(3 mins)

10. Uploading Content to Top Hat
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11. Activity: Uploading Slides into Top Hat
Step 1: Create a folder
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Step 2: Upload slides
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Step 3: Uploading Files & Downloadable Content (Optional)
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12. Motivating Attendance & Engagement
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13. Professors should make attendance a graded part of students’ overall mark
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14. Students who attend more classes earn higher final grades 1
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15. If students believe it is valuable to attend class and have a choice in
attending, then it follows that students will be likely to decide to
attend class, provided the class lives up to being valuable. 1
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A ‘red herring’ is a common expression
for a distraction from the actual point
Attendance & AccountabilityAttendance & Accountability
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17. The Traditional Lecture Format
Pre-Class
Preparation
The Lecture
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18. Pre-Class
Preparation
The Lecture
Attendance /
Hook
Promoting Accountability
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19. Maintaining Motivation
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20. Great teachers understand that learning is a
conversation, not a monologue. Seeing teaching
and learning as a dynamic process, rather than a
one-way channel of transmission is at the heart of
this.
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Sir Ken Robinson
Q & A with Top Hat

21. The Traditional Lecture Format
Pre-Class
Preparation
The Lecture
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22. Top Hat Question!
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Capturing Students’ Attention
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24. ➔ make complex themes
or ideas more digestible
➔ remove
guesswork
➔ Include students in the lecture experience
➔ use technology to empower
Maintaining Students’ Attention
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25. Pre-Class
Preparation
The Lecture
Building the Lecture
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26. Pre-Class
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Learning
Objective 1
Learning
Objective 2
Learning
Objective 3
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27. Pre-Class
Preparation
Learning
Objective 1
Learning
Objective 2
Learning
Objective 3
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28. Pre-Class
Preparation
Building the Lecture
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29. Embedding Interactive Content
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30. Participation ActivitiesComprehension Check Check-In
Common Active Learning Activities
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31. “How many questions should I ask?”
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32. If I keep getting the same questions,
I need to build a better system.
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Matt Numer, PhD
Dalhousie University
Top Hat User, 2012 -

33. Building Interactive Content
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34. Activity: Building Interactive Content
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Step 2: Building a Discussion
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Your Task: Building Content
Step 1: Building a Question
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35. Check-in
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Grading Purposefully in Top Hat
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37. Editing Grades
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38. Leveraging Live Feedback
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39. “OK, they got it wrong - now what?”
Addressing Learning Gaps During Lecture
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40. “OK, they’re gone - now what?”
Addressing Learning Gaps After Lecture
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41. Pre-Class
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Building the Lecture
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42. Pre-Class
Preparation
Building the Lecture
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43. Re-using Low Performing Content
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44. Activity: Addressing Learning Gaps
Step 1: Assign to Review
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Step 2: Re-assess when needed
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Step 3: Copying Course Content
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45. Agile Teaching: Burcu Karabina
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Success Story: Burcu Tuncer Karabina

47. Agile Teaching and the Role of Technology
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The tools we have available now have fantastic potential to enhance education in almost every direction
[…] it’s all about knowing how to use them. 5
Sir Ken Robinson
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48. Pre-Class
Preparation
The Lecture
The Traditional Lecture Format
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49. Pre-Class
Preparation
Agile Teaching with Top Hat
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50. 1) promote
conversations
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gain insight, motivate
students improve outcomes
3) Invest in course development
Key
Takeaways

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52. Attendance
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53. References

54. Image Credits
geotatah
Freepik
Eleonor Wang