Center for Excellence in TeachingTips for running a successful in-class student debate via Zoom
A faculty showcase presentation by Iva Bozovic. An example of how to design an online class debate.
Resources: Discussion
Promoting intrinsic motivation
A collection of strategies for increasing student intrinsic motivation, organized by three motivational factors.
Ethical design: Re-thinking the traditional brainstorm
A faculty showcase presentation by Matthew Manos. A video on designing a discussion and critique based assignment.
Ethical and social justice complications of technology
A faculty showcase presentation by Rob Parke. An example of how to integrate ethical and social justice topics into discussions.
Flipped course design
An introduction to the flipped course, a course design style that is more consistent with theories of human learning than traditional lecture-style courses and supported by educational research.
Discussion types
A review of instructor and student-led types of academic discussion, and specific processes for how each type may be conducted during class.
Active learning for the large classroom
A description of five in-class activities that promote active learning in classes with large student enrollments. Though the activities work particularly well in large classes, they may be used in any size class.
The Zoom raise-hand feature
Refer to this resource when planning to use the raise-hand feature during Zoom sessions. Consider providing this document to students.
Live transcription in Zoom
Faculty Zoom accounts now have the capability to enable live automatic speech recognition transcription (similar to closed captioning) in real time for meetings and live sessions. As the host of your live classroom sessions, you can enable this feature during each class by following the instructions below. Transcripts can be considered an important part of universal design, supporting students’ various learning, abilities, and environments.
A menu of discussion norms
A list of statements that can be included in a course’s set of discussion norms, rules, or expectations. This is not a list of best practices, but a collection of discussion norms that are commonly used in various disciplines.