Share Paper: Where educational media meets the college lecture course: Increasing class engagement using interactive online modules

  1. Mya Thompson, Cornell University, United States
Wednesday, June 24 11:55 AM-12:15 PM Salon Kafka

Abstract: Remember coming to lecture with only a vague idea of what you’d be learning about for the next hour? Instead, hundreds of students in Cornell University’s Evolution and Diversity class arrived this semester fresh from exploring an online interactive full of real-life examples and self-quizzes on the topic of the day—How Do Fancy Traits Evolve In Nature? Quiz and survey results revealed that these students showed measurable learning gains and increased class engagement. This best practices session focuses on the results of a partnership to develop multimedia modules as pre-class assignments in large lecture courses—and evaluate their effectiveness. A team ...