Active Learning Using Boppps and Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy for Synchronous Online Classrooms

E-learning has grown significantly over the past 20 years, and more instruction in higher education is occurring either wholly online or in hybrid modes. However, implementing active learning through these modalities can be complicated by the dual realities of instructors’ reticence and insecurities, and students’ anxiety about the experience. Furthermore, learning and navigating digital technologies can be challenging for both teachers and students. Drawing on my own experiences with instructing students within live online classes, this chapter outlines how standard BOPPPS lesson plans can be tailored via digital activities to promote active learning that meets all the skill levels on the Bloom’s digital taxonomy. In so doing, this chapter furnishes Bloom’s digital taxonomy with empirical strategies for achieving both higher and lower order learning objectives, and it contributes to educators’ efficacies with and capacities to design active online courses that enhance students’ learning experiences.