The following are resources and guides we have found useful in creating simple activities to break up lecture in online or face-to-face classrooms.

Cross Academy

Student engagement techniques : a handbook for college faculty

Interactive lecturing : a handbook for college faculty

Classroom Assessment Techniques

Learning Assessment Techniques

Classroom Assessment Techniques (Quick Reference)

Assertion Evidence is a slide design technique developed by Michael Alley at Penn State specifically for scientific presentations. 

Assertion Evidence

Robert Gagne advocated a session format based around 9 distinct steps.  Here are a few introductions to this method.

Gagne's 9 Events of Instruction

UF Introduction

Research on using Gagne in Health Professions lectures

Five ways to reduce PowerPoint overload by Cliff Atkinson and Richard E. Mayer

Slide:ology

Lecturing Guidelines

Barkley, E. F. (2009). Student engagement techniques: A handbook for college faculty. John Wiley & Sons.

Belfield, J. (2010). Using Gagne’s theory to teach chest X-ray interpretation. Clinical Teacher, 7(1), 5–8. aph.

Buscombe, C. (2013). Using Gagne’s theory to teach procedural skills. Clinical Teacher, 10(5), 302–307. aph.

Clark, R. C., & Mayer, R. E. (2011). E-learning and the science of instruction: Proven guidelines for consumers and designers of multimedia learning. John Wiley & Sons.

Cross, K. P., & Angelo, T. A. (1988). Classroom Assessment Techniques. A Handbook for Faculty.

Gagne, R. M., Wager, W. W., Golas, K. C., Keller, J. M., & Russell, J. D. (2005). Principles of instructional design. Performance Improvement, 44(2), 44–46.

Mayer, R. E. (2009). What neurosurgeons should discover about the science of learning. Clinical Neurosurgery, 56, 57–65.

Mayer, R. E. (2010). Applying the science of learning to medical education. Medical Education, 44, 543–549.

Prince, M. (2004). Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research. Journal of Engineering Education, 93(3), 223–231. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2004.tb00809.x