There are many ways to add interactivity to lectures. Explore these ideas:
Why Lecture Interactively?
- Lecture vs. Active Learning: Reframing the Conversation (Faculty Focus)
- Teaching Tips: Six Common Non-Facilitating Teaching Behaviors (Indiana State University)
Interactive Lecture Techniques
- Instructional Strategies: Lectures (Carnegie Mellon)
- Preparing and Delivering an Interactive Lecture (Tufts)
- Lecturing Effectively (University of Waterloo)
Interactive Lecture Technologies
A range of available technologies allow you to enhance delivery and presentation of your lecture and interaction with your students.
- Classroom response tools can help make large lectures more interactive. Poll Everywhere is a tool that works on mobile devices and laptops, and allows you to pose a range of question types, poll your students, and share responses live in class.
- Student Engagement in Large Classes with Poll Everywhere (Tufts Faculty Blog)
- Faculty Blog Post: An Experiment in Producing Long-Lasting Learning
- Lecture capture tools allow you to create audio and video recordings of your lecture and presentation, and share them later with your students. To learn more about which lecture capture tool may be right for you, see our Video Tools for Teaching guide. These additional resources offer tips on preparing to record a lecture:
- Adapting PowerPoint Lectures for Online Delivery (Faculty Focus)
- 7 Things You Should Know About Microlectures (EDUCAUSE)
- Making Sure Your Educational Multimedia Pays Off (UMinn TILT blog)