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Designing for Student Engagement: Creating Learning Activities with Interactive Multimedia

This presentation explores the critical role of student engagement in learning and the significance of learning styles in designing educational activities. It discusses various types of learning activities and underscores the need for an integral approach in the activity design process. Attendees will participate in hands-on experiences to create an interactive learning activity and design an engaging lesson pertaining to their discipline using MERLOT resources. Key principles of effective learning design, aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy, will be emphasized throughout.

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Designing for Student Engagement: Creating Learning Activities with Interactive Multimedia

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  1. Designing for Student Engagement: Creating Learning Activities with Interactive Multimedia Tracy Penny Light LT3 Centre, University of Waterloo MERLOT International Conference August 5, 2004

  2. Overview We will consider: • the importance of student engagement in learning • the importance of learning styles in activity design • different types of learning activities • the importance of an integral approach to learning activity design We will work to: • design a “mock” interactive learning activity • design a learning activity for a MERLOT learning object in your discipline

  3. Student Engagement What does the research say? • “Students learn by becoming involved.” • “Learning is not a spectator sport.” • “Students learn what they care about and remember what they understand.”

  4. Understanding Our Learners Where do we start? • Form an hypothesis about your learners based on your observations of them • Talk to your colleagues to see if your assumptions are the same and catalog EVERYONE’S assumptions…even yours! • Consider your own learning preferences and keep them in mind as you design your activity

  5. How Do We Learn? What are our own learning preferences? i.e. Solomon-Felder Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire Reflective-----X---------------------Active Sensing-----X---------------------Intuitive Visual--------------X------------Verbal Sequential---------------------X-----Global

  6. Creating Learner Profiles (Personas) How do your target learners like to learn? Consider: • Learner preferences • Learners’ background • Outside interests • Knowledge of topic?

  7. Types of Learning Activities Examples of learning activities:

  8. Designing Learning Activities Bloom’s Taxonomy Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application Comprehension Knowledge

  9. Where does your activity fit? Course Design Model

  10. Designing a Learning Activity: The “Pizza Explorer” (30 min.) • In pairs, go to the Pizza Explorer http://www.accessexcellence.org/pizza • Using the current scenario and persona, design an activity to address the identified learning level.

  11. Designing your own Learning Activity (45 min.) • Go to MERLOT www.merlot.org and choose a learning object in your own discipline that you think you could use in one of your own courses • Considering your own course design and learners design an activity to address your desired learning level.

  12. Sharing our Activities (15 min.) • In your pairs, share your idea for your learning activity and provide each other feedback on the design

  13. Questions?

  14. Thank You! Tracy Penny Light tracy@LT3.uwaterloo.ca

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