Title: What is Interactive Lecture?
Headings: What is Interactive Lecture?
What is Interactive Lecture?
The Basic Structure of Interactive Lecture
Triggers, Tasks, and Techniques

Content: Breaking up the lecture with these techniques not only provides format change to engage students, these activities also allow students to immediately apply content and provide feedback to the instructor on student understanding. An Evocative Headline and a Think-Pair-Share: One way to transform a traditional lecture into an interactive lecture would be to have students discuss a headline from the student newspaper. Show more
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Suppose your institution's football team is headed for a bowl game. In an economics class, you might ask students to individually consider the impact of this occurrence in the context of a supply and demand framework for the market for varsity sportswear at your institution. After students have a minute to consider the impact on their own, they then share and discuss their answer with one or two classmates sitting near by. The newspaper headline serves as an engagement trigger to capture student attention and the subsequent activity is an example of a form of the think-pair-share learning structure that allows an immediate response to or application of the content. Calling on some groups for their responses and allowing discussion as a class reinforces the content application and aids in learning.' The Basic Structure of Interactive Lecture
The goal of interactive lecture is to engage students by finding ways for them to interact with the content, the instructor, and their classmates. Accordingly, interactive lectures include segments of lecture combined with segments where students interact.