The first day of class is important no matter the modality ... It is important to take time to introduce ourselves and our teaching style, while also facilitating activities for students to interact ...

On class days, you are likely to have only a few minutes ... Try one or more of the following: Have students give their first name and faculty and their favourite leisure activity. In larger classes, ...

“This class is going to be great!” rather than yawning. First impressions matter, and research shows the experience of first day of class can even influence student motivation (Wilson & Wilson, 2007).

A first-day activity I created for an intro to econometrics class (undergraduate level). This activity conducts the same sequence of steps in R and Stata for comparison. RStataReview.pdf presents the ...