Ways to Engage the Learner in a Transparent/Inclusive Online and Face to Face Sociology Classroom

• In Event: 3423 - Teaching and Learning Symposium Roundtable
  In Informal Discussion Roundtable: Table 5: Active Learning II

Abstract

Today, students can decide on the type of classroom that offers the best learning environment for them. The competition is on for instructors to provide the best possible engaging environment to a very diverse audience. The question becomes what are some of the ways in which instructors can create an engaging classroom in the face-to-face and the on line learning environment? This workshop will demonstrate the activities that will help to increase engagement in an on line and face to face environments with the use of technology. The audience will be given information and they will be allowed to participate in the various engaging techniques. For example, I will show how poll everywhere can be used in the class and demonstrate this with the audience. There are several areas that the workshop will focus on to provide real engaging activities to the classroom. First of all, the use of QR codes will be demonstrated to the audience. We will brainstorm various ways to use the QR codes in the sociology classroom. I will provide some of the ways in which I have used QR codes to engage the learner with their cell phone. Secondly, the use of google docs will be explored. In this demonstration we will discuss how students can work collaboratively with a project in class for 5-10 minutes. Lastly, the professors will get hands on instruction on how to provide develop an inclusive classroom that will provide an opportunity share how they will implement these ideas into their own classrooms and what they are doing now.

Author

• Deidre A. Tyler, Salt Lake Community College