Incorporating Active Learning into STEM Courses: An Overview and Examples √ § Ͼ
Hear insights from the research and your UMBC colleagues
Location
Online
Date & Time
February 18, 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
How can we engage our students during class? How can we and they see what they’ve learned before an assessment? In this session, Linda C. Hodges, Director Emerita of the UMBC FDC, will provide a brief overview of active learning, including its benefits and challenges, and insights from the research based on her recently published book, Teaching Undergraduate Science: A Guide to Overcoming Obstacles to Student Learning, 2nd edition (2025). Then, UMBC faculty members Mercedes Burns (Associate Professor, Biological Sciences), Jimmy Foulds (Associate Professor, Information Systems), and Justin Webster (Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics) will share how they have used active learning activities to enhance their courses. Whether you are planning informal activities or designing a structured pedagogical approach using active learning, this session will provide ideas to help you achieve your course goals more effectively.
Please click "Going Virtually" below to reserve your seat for this
session, and we will send you a Google calendar invitation with a WebEx
link one hour before the session. If you register less than an hour
before the session, you will receive the WebEx link when you register.
Please email fdc@umbc.edu
if you have any questions. If you have registered and find that you can
no longer attend, please kindly release your spot so that others may
attend.
√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
Ͼ CIRTL graduate students are invited to attend
Photo by Mimi Thian on Unsplash.
