How to Make Your Lecture More Engaging and Interactive for Your Students

Lectures can be boring, without a doubt, but they don’t have to be. There are a variety of creative approaches for making your lecture more interactive and interesting for your students so that they stay tuned in and remember the content you want them to remember. 

In this episode, we’ll talk about how you can start and end your lecture with bookends, how to incorporate lecture wrappers, and different engagement techniques you can try. We’ll also cover what a microlecture is and the process of creating one, and then we’ll go over effective Q&As to help engage students, buzz groups, and a snowball group activity. 

Recommended Resources:

• Magna Online Seminar: How to Use Interactive Lecturing as Pedagogy of Engagement
• 20-Minute Mentor: How Do I Create and Implement Microlectures?
• Magna Online Seminar: Strategies for Making Lectures More Active, Engaging, and Meaningful

This episode is sponsored by the Teaching Professor Online Conference – network from the comfort of your living room.