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Some Strategies to Engage Students in Active Learning: My Experience

Some Strategies to Engage Students in Active Learning: My Experience. Dr. Ahmed El- Mowafy Dept. of Spatial Sciences. Ahmed El- Mowafy , Dept. of Spatial Sciences Faculty of S&E, T&L S ymposium 2013, 23 July, 2013. Outline. Understand the Student Prospective

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Some Strategies to Engage Students in Active Learning: My Experience

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  1. Some Strategies to Engage Students in Active Learning: My Experience • Dr. Ahmed El-Mowafy • Dept. of Spatial Sciences Ahmed El-Mowafy, Dept. of Spatial Sciences Faculty of S&E, T&L Symposium 2013, 23 July, 2013.

  2. Outline • Understand the Student Prospective • How to Motivate Students to Engage • How to Engage Students • Examples • Some Questions and Observations Ahmed El-Mowafy, Dept. of Spatial Sciences Faculty of S&E, T&L Symposium 2013, 23 July, 2013.

  3. Understand the Student Prospective Ahmed El-Mowafy, Dept. of Spatial Sciences Faculty of S&E, T&L Symposium 2013, 23 July, 2013.

  4. How to Motivate Students to Engage • Students’ main motivation is: Marks • However, they want also to learn • What do we need to give to students: • Feel the value of what they learn. • Satisfaction of achieving an objective. • Linking what they learn to their current life and their future carrier. Ahmed El-Mowafy, Dept. of Spatial Sciences Faculty of S&E, T&L Symposium 2013, 23 July, 2013.

  5. Goals • Engage, experiment and reflect. • Focus activities on reasoning and the evaluation of evidence, • allow students develop the ability to formulate and solve problems. • Discuss the problem and how it might best be approached. • Enable students to clarify and expand on ideas; • to demand, as well as to provide, supporting evidence or reasons for comments and opinions; and to determine whether or not an argument is reasonable and a conclusion well-founded. • Each of these goals requires that students talk with one another, and reflect upon their own thinking, questioning, negotiating, and problem-solving strategies Ahmed El-Mowafy, Dept. of Spatial Sciences Faculty of S&E, T&L Symposium 2013, 23 July, 2013.

  6. How to Engage Students • Give them short and attractive material to prepare for the lecture before they come (includes simulation via real-world scenarios). • Involve students in well structured question and answer sessions (formative and summative). • Pairing activities such as "think, pair, share" • Case studies • Flash presentations • Group project based assignments (individual marking for assigned activities); • Problem-based learning (arouse their curiosity to find the answer). Ahmed El-Mowafy, Dept. of Spatial Sciences Faculty of S&E, T&L Symposium 2013, 23 July, 2013.

  7. Examples: Simulation-based e-learning • An online interactive levelling virtual simulation tool was developed • Helps in the development skills in observation reading, calculations, recording and interpretation of results. Interface of the simulation interactive tool in one example Ahmed El-Mowafy, Dept. of Spatial Sciences Faculty of S&E, T&L Symposium 2013, 23 July, 2013.

  8. Examples • 10 minutes short quiz at the beginning addressing lecture objectives • - Multiple answers, • True or False. • Group Questions (5 minutes) Ahmed El-Mowafy, Dept. of Spatial Sciences Faculty of S&E, T&L Symposium 2013, 23 July, 2013.

  9. Examples • Case studies / Problem-based learning • (in a group of two) You are the chief surveyor and you would like to survey a land of 2 km × 2 km in one day, discuss possible methods. • Competitions • Only the best group will get a bonus mark • Flash Presentations (5 minutes) • rotation of presentations Ahmed El-Mowafy, Dept. of Spatial Sciences Faculty of S&E, T&L Symposium 2013, 23 July, 2013.

  10. Some Questions and Observations • Can we do these activities all the time? • Teaching of most engineering concepts requires classical methods! T/F • Need to define difference between lectures and tutorials. • Some students do not want to prepare – Some do not want to be active learners! How to derive them to engage ? • Preparation of new attractive materials for active learning increases workload? Answers to the above questions/observations may vary case-by-case. Ahmed El-Mowafy, Dept. of Spatial Sciences Faculty of S&E, T&L Symposium 2013, 23 July, 2013.

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