Skip to main content

You're visiting the Staff Portal without being logged in. If you login you will get access to personalized content. Log in External users Forget previous

  • Students
  • Staff
  • Alumni
  • Media
Support / Help pages
Uppsala university
  • På svenska
  • Log in
    • Joint Web Login
    • Forget previous External users
    • Unsure of how to login?
  • Uppsala university
  • MP Start
  • Your Employment
    • Salary
    • Staff organizations
    • Working hours
    • Working environment and occupational health
    • Termination of employment
    • Outside activities
    • Wellness
    • Priority for an increased level of employment
    • Employee benefits
    • Insurances
    • Parental leave and sick child leave
    • Introduction for new employees
    • Career
    • Union agreements
    • Continuing professional development
    • Get to know your university
    • Networks
    • Retirement
    • Vacation
    • Sickness absence and return to work
    • Other types of leave
  • Services and Support
    • Purchasing and procurement
    • Forms
    • Campus
    • General Data Protection Regulation
    • Diarieföring & arkivering
    • Financial administration
    • Insurances
    • Handböcker
    • Internationalisation
    • IT and Telephony Services
    • Juridik, dokument- och ärendehantering
    • Communication
    • Skills supply and recruitment
    • Arrange conference/travelfree meetings
    • Crisis and crisis support
    • Lokaler
    • Environmental work
    • Travel
    • Studentrekrytering
    • Security
    • Uppdragsutbildning
  • Research
    • Research agreements
    • Horizon Europe
    • Phd Studies
    • Research ethics
    • Research Data
    • Research networks
    • Geodata och GIS
    • Infrastructure and resources
    • Press and media
    • Publish and register
    • Rådet för forskning
    • Innovation Support
    • Forskningsstöd - samverkan
    • Quality and Renewal
    • Uppsala University's Research Handbook
  • Teaching
    • Distance teaching
    • E-learning
    • Juridik och ramverk
    • Conferences, courses and seminars
    • Quality and evaluation
    • Läsår, terminer och perioder
    • Educational development
    • Rådet för utbildning
    • The Language Workshop for Teachers
    • Student administration
    • Teacher service
    • Stöd och service till studenter
    • Educational framework
    • Our courses and programmes
  • Our UU
    • Academic Traditions
    • Alumni activities
    • Fundraising, donationer och sponsring
    • International networks
    • Event Calendar
    • Mission, Goals and Strategies
    • Available positions
    • Organisation and governance
    • Organisational development
  • Directory
  • MP Start
  • Your Employment
  • Services and Support
  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Our UU
  • Directory
!
Support and help
  • Teaching/
  • Educational development/
  • Teaching methods/
  • Methods for activating students/
  • Go to Teaching Educational development
    • Distinguished University Teacher
    • Consultation
    • Networks
    • Programme for Teaching and learning
    • Teaching methods
      • Active Learning Classroom
      • Case
      • Pedagogic tips for teaching staff
      • PBL
      • Methods for activating students
    • Documenting teaching qualifications
    • The Distinguished Teaching Award
    • Reports about Pedagogical development
    • Interdisciplinary courses
    • Developmental projects

Methods for activating students

Methods for activating students

Methods for activating students are about getting students more involved in their learning process, which otherwise can be perceived as passive from the student point of view.

One example of an activating element is Mentometers ("clickers"), which can be used to get students more involved in a lecture.

Another variant is to hand out assignments during the lecture and have the students discuss and reflect upon the material in small groups, which then discuss the material in the class as a whole. During the group discussion sessions, the teacher walks around and comments on the deliberations of the groups.

In forms of teaching that are regarded as student activating, the teacher should ensure that every student is activated, for example, by explaining something at the Whiteboard during a seminar.

A further method is "peer-to-peer learning", that is, students teaching each other. For instance, students can read and comment on each other’s papers before they are submitted to the teacher, or students can correct each other’s examinations.

More information

Critical Thinking, from Hedin, A (2006) Lärande på hög nivå (Advanced-level learning), see the Swedish page

Mentometers in teaching

Video on Active Learning with Dr. Richard Felder

Content owner: Charlotte Sundström 28 juni 2021

  • På svenska
  • Support and help
Log in
  • Joint Web Login
  • Forget previous External users
  • Unsure of how to login?
  • Contact us
  • Switchboard internal: 987
  • Switchboard external: 018-471 00 00
  • Editorial staff
  • Registrar
  • Whistleblower function
  • Support
  • Accessibility report
  •  
  • Org. nr: 202100-2932
  • VAT-nr: SE202100293201
  • PIC: 999985029
  • Invoice address
  •  
  • In case of emergency
  • Call (00) 112 when life, health or property are at immediate risk.
  • In serious incidents, call the University's emergency number 018‑471 25 00.
  • Emergency checklist
Uppsala University uses cookies to make your website experience as good as possible. Read more about cookies.