Learning to Learn - Active Learning Resources for Faculty

Contributed by Jenni Willis-Opalenik, Ph.D., Director - OIT Technology Learning Services

Are you interested in information that may help your students learn more effectively? If so, the following new resources offer some techniques that you may want to incorporate into your start-of-semester or course orientation activities and lessons. They also support and extend the IDT team's recent training sessions and newsletter articles about active learning techniques in higher education.

• Video: Learning to Learn [8:22] - provided by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, this short video features an interview with Ulrich Boser, the author of Learn Better.
• Online Article: Boser, U. (2018 May 2). Learning is a learned behavior. Here's how to get better at it. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2018/05/learning-is-a-learned-behavior-heres-how-to-get-better-at-it

Acknowledgment: I'd like to thank Dr. Susan Sorensen, Associate Professor of Accounting, for sharing with me recently the above information from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. As a reminder, if you have new resources about teaching and learning, instructional technologies, or similar topics that you believe would be of interest to your faculty colleagues, please email the IDT team at IDT@uhcl.edu. We'll be happy to include that information in our following weekly newsletter!