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Brief Activities: Questioning, Brainstorming, Think-Pair-Share, Jigsaw, and Clinical Case Discussions

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Traditional lectures can be enhanced by turning them into “interactive lectures”. Interactive lectures disperse active learning opportunities (or brief activities) throughout traditional lecture and across a specific time period (i.e. 50 min). Interactive lectures include opportunities for student interaction through thinking, doing, observing, responding, etc. Interactive lectures help students begin to work towards active learning that promotes development, evaluation, and revision of information networks used to understand the real world. Incorporating brief activities, is a great way for faculty to incorporate interaction into their teaching without having to go full force into higher order activities such as team-based learning or problem-based learning. There are a number of brief activities that can be used to move towards more complex active learning strategies.

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Linsenmeyer, M. (2021). Brief Activities: Questioning, Brainstorming, Think-Pair-Share, Jigsaw, and Clinical Case Discussions. In: Fornari, A., Poznanski, A. (eds) How-to Guide for Active Learning. IAMSE Manuals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62916-8_5

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