Tech It Up!

The new teaching technologies take many forms, both as learning tools and strategies. Combining new technology with traditional teaching techniques provides a variety in format presentation and learning styles, and is helpful to students in learning theory and workplace applications. The challenge as faculty is to incorporate many different teaching and learning methods in each lesson plan. Discussion focuses on why and how to divide the class session into smaller timeframe learning blocks, and how to intermingle many methods to break up the class hours. Activities that can be easily included and ways to rearrange the class schedule are addressed. By using many techniques as well as technologies, faculty provide practical and active experiences to increase students' learning.