Interactive Lecture

INTERACTIVE LECTURE

The CDEARA Model

How to do it?

Why do it?

How others did it?

How to assess learning?

What is it?

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What is it?

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Interactive Lecture: The CDEARA Model

A lecture that is interspersed with other activities besides listening and note-taking, that enable students to actively participate during the lecture involving student-teacher, student-student, student-material and student-technology interactions.

The ‘other activities’ when used in a lecture context, are called Interactive Lecture Tools (ILTs).

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Why do it?

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Increase students' engagement

The monotony of a standard lecture is broken down by chunking the lecture content into smaller units and alternately embedding ILTs throughout the lecture. Thus, students’ learning experiences are varied and therefore attract students’ attention and keep them actively engaged throughout the lecture.

Foster thinking

The use of questioning in various formats including the use of graphic organisers and thinking templates make for a purposeful, systematic and thought-provoking process of fostering thinking.

Deepen understanding

Continous assessment

The use of ILTs make students’ learning experiences more concrete compared to the use of mainly verbal and visual symbols as in the standard lecture. By using the ILT alternately with lecturing, we enrich students’ learning experiences and thus lead them to greater learning.

Many ILTs can serve as assessment tasks in addition to them being part of the learning activities. Thus, learning activities and assessment are seamlessly intertwined so that students receive immediate feedback during the learning process.

why do it?

UNDERPINNINGS

MULTI[PLE INTELLIGENCES

CONSTRUCTIVISM

Ascertain prior knowledge and facilitate the meaning making process

Use of various ILTs allow students to learn through multiple senses thus catering for students different learning styles

Learning theories that underpin Interactive Lecture: The CDEARA Model

INFORMATION PROCESSING THEORY

DALE'S CONE OF EXPERIENCES, 1969

Chunking the lecture content into smaller units helps with storing more information in the working memory

Make learning experience more concrete and enriching to increase understanding

Interactive Lecture: The CDEARA Model

ASSESSAssess students' learning throughout the learning process to ensure the achievement of the learning outcomes

CONNECTAttract attention, elicit ideas and relate students' everyday experience to the content.

REFLECTProvide closure by having students reflect on what and how they learn. Connect to the next lesson

DELIVERPresent content in small chunks. 10 minutes, tops.

ENGAGEAllow students to interact through multiple senses via the use of ILTs thus enabling them to process content deeply and meaningfully and develop thinking skills.

APPLYProvide enrichment tasks to facilitate transfer of learning. Focus on the 'big idea' of the lesson and provide new and challenging contexts preferably related to the real world

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How to do it?

The CDEARA Model

• The CDEARA Interactive Lecture Model consists of six components. Although some parts of the model appear to be sequential (for example, the components Connect, Deliver, Apply and Reflect are sequential), others such as Engage and Assess are components of the interactive lecture that are executed throughout the lecture.
• The lesson plan template is as attached.

Interactive Lecture: The CDEARA Model

Examples of Interactive Lecture Tools

ILTs

Questions

KWL Chart

Think-Pair-Share

Punctuate lectures with verbal questioning

Know What Learned

Brainstorming

Present a question. Let student think individually first, then ask them to discuss in pairs/nearest neighbour, and finally, share their responses to the whole class.

Ask for ideas around the class, one by one.

examples of interactive lecture tools

ILTs

two-minute paper

focused listing

video clips

Ask a question and give students two minutes to jot down their answer.

survey

Ask a question that requires students to list down their answer.

Direct students' attention on some aspects of the video before playing the video.

Use any web 2.0 tools such as mentimeter, kahoot, padlet, google form, etc. to elicit responses about anything related to the topic or students' learning experiences.

examples of interactive lecture tools

ILTs

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demonstration

plus-minus-interesting

predict-explain-observe-explain

Do live demonstration.

simulations

Can be used as a reflection template. Reflection can be on the content learned, the thinking (metacognition), or on the affective component of the learning experience.

PEOE technique is an interactive demonstration where students are asked to predict a particular event, explain their prediction, then observe and finally explain. The template below can be used for doing PEOE.

Simulations that are suitable for use during lecture are digital simulations such as Phet simulations (for teaching Science and Mathematics) and BrainPOP.

1. Peer Instruction by Eric Mazur

2. Fully Interactive Physics Lecture by Meltzer & Manivannan

3. Kuliah Interaktif Multimedia by Nurulhuda Abd Rahman & Noor Azman Razalee