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Providing Interactive Learning Experiences

Providing Interactive Learning Experiences

Course Description

This course offers a variety of strategies to help educators design lessons that are more interactive for their students.  By utilizing these strategies for interactive learning, educators provide multiple opportunities for their learners to become more interactive with the content and with each other.   Along with offering a multitude of strategies, this course also addresses the challenges of interactive learning and ways to overcome those challenges.  While participating in activities that are interactive, learners are more likely to engage with the content and improve their comprehension.

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Course Numbers

  • Adams State: ED 589
  • UMass Global: EDDU 9621

 

Course Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

  • Students will learn what it means to make learning interactive along with the obstacles of interactive learning and ways to overcome those obstacles.
  • Students will learn and analyze different interactive learning strategies.
  • Students will be able to apply interactive learning strategies to make their own students interact with the content and with each other more during lessons.
  • Students will be able to utilize interactive learning strategies to improve content comprehension among their own students.
  • Students will develop skills to reflect on & improve their own teaching practices.

 

Relevancy to Practice: This course provides educators with the following relevant information to help improve their practice:

  • Strategies and tools for getting students to interact more with the content and with each other to increase engagement and comprehension.
  • Becoming aware of and then overcoming the potential obstacles of interactive learning.
  • Creating common learning experiences and whole-class instruction that is interactive and engaging for all learners.
  • Making lectures more interactive for students by both having students interact with the content within the lecture and with each other.
  • Structuring effective interactive lessons and whole-class discussions.
  • Strategies to help students interact with the text while they are reading.
  • Incorporating effective ways for students to interact, listen and learn from each other.

Course Format 

This is an online course. Please use course materials emailed to you upon your original registration.

Providing Interactive Learning Experiences Syllabus

Click below for a preview syllabus for this course. This syllabus applies to students receiving credits from Adams State University or UMass Global or those taking the course for Continuing Education (no credits).

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Price:

Starting at $189.00

Credits:

3

Graduate Credits

*Pricing may not include University Fees. Select option to include fees.

University Fee

Course fee may or may not include the university’s registration fee depending on the university partner. University fees are not included in the registration fee for Adam’s State University and University of Massachusetts Global. 

Those additional fees are:
University of Massachusetts Global: $70/credit
Adam’s State University: $55/credit  

Instructions for how to register with your selected University Partner and pay additional fees will be provided after registering with Credits for Teachers.

University fees for Colorado State University Pueblo are included in the course fees. 

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