Abstract
Research has shown that quality instructor–student interactions far outweigh many other considerations in attaining positive learning outcomes. Although this may be inherently obvious, little has been shown in the literature to indicate that instructor/teacher preparation programs in general dedicate much time on how to train teachers the actual process of applying specific tactics to interact with their students that create a highly engaging culture of interactive, participatory learning in their classrooms. Much can be learned from reviewing the well-developed, best practices utilized by live interactive improv performers, whose goal is to create positive interactions with their audiences (i.e., students). Those creative techniques as found in this chapter provide a glimpse of those techniques and tactics and provide a basis to compare them to similar strategies that can be implemented by instructional designers and teachers to assess their impact of the learning transactions between teachers and their students regardless of the mode of course delivery (i.e., F2F, blended/hybrid or online).