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Conveying large amounts of material efficiently and clarifying complex ideas

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Tyler VanderWeele, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology, uses lectures to integrate and illuminate core concepts, bringing new insights to students and sometimes for his own scholarship in the process.

Interactive lecturing: High-leverage teaching practices to energize students

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Paola Arlotta, Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, creates an environment of active inquiry, experimentation, and brainstorming by employing interactive lecturing in her course, Got (New) Brain? The Evolution of Brain Regeneration. An...

Presenting material in multiple ways (HGSE Instructional Moves)

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See Professor Robert Keegan offer a myriad of entry points into material presented throughout his lectures to keep the content fresh while boosting student engagement, in Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Instructional Moves resource.

Problems and puzzles: Boosting engagement with interactivity

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Joshua Greene, Professor of Psychology, designs course sessions for maximum engagement by creating interactive opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to grapple with problems and challenge one another. “It’s not a puzzle if there are not...

Making Your Lectures Interactive (SLATE)

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Harvard Kennedy School’s Strengthening Learning and Teaching Excellence (SLATE) Initiative outlines strategies to make lectures more interactive.

Twenty Ways To Make Lectures More Participatory (Bok Center)

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The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning offers tip sheets for instructors on ways to make lectures more participatory.

The Benefit of Interactive Learning

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A 2014 Harvard Graduate School of Education Master Class featured physics professor Eric Mazur on peer instruction, an interactive method for teaching large lectures.

Research: Interpolated memory tests reduce mind wandering and improve learning of online lectures

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Study showing that intermittently breaking up online lectures with quizzes reduced the occurrence of mind wandering, increased the frequency of note taking, and facilitated more efficient learning (by Harvard psychology professor Daniel Schacter and...