From the course: Learning How to Increase Learner Engagement

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- It's now time for action. You've learned all about active learning techniques, why lecturing alone is not enough to drive higher level thinking, and how interaction leads to learning and why we need to engage learners. I've covered a number of different techniques to help you focus on creating effective, engaging instruction, but those are just a few of the many that can be used. I urge you to use the techniques in this course as a jumping off point for your own use of interactive and engaging techniques in your own instruction. Take a look at the content you teach and decide what areas can be modified to include interactivity and engagement. Use the ideas such as think, pair, share to involve learners in the process. It's so tempting to only lecture, but now you have so many more techniques and approaches in your instructional toolkit. Creating a learning environment with engagement and active learning techniques will not only improve student learning, but it will improve your…

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