This session focuses on some principles for combining the strengths of the lecture format with knowledge of how people attend to and process information, as well as how adding multimedia elements to the tradtiional 'talk and chalk' format can address the needs of students' with differnent learning styles or preferences. It sets the tone for how any why you may want to design your lectures, or powerpoint presentations to accomodate some pedagogial principles. Later sessions will address how these tools can be designed to work most effectively on the web. Name three objectives of using active learning approaches with presentations. Active Learning Principles Consider short-term memory limits when presenting information.
Students can vary a discussion partner after a whole topic, class, or semester.
Summaries Summarizing lectures or activiites has been shown to promote comprehension and retention. Students can be asked to provide summaries to segments Instructors can organize and synthesize past and forthcoming material. While typically used for evaluation, short quizzes can also provide useful learning activities. Feedback Lectures 2 twenty-minute lectures separated by a study session. This is an official Web page of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Rd.