ABSTRACT
Humor involves active learning. Effective teaching requires imagination and creativity to turn the students’ negative perceptions around. The most recent teaching tools involving computer technology, active learning, cooperative and collaborative learning, and critical thinking can be executed without any meaningful connection between professor and students. The techniques require interaction among students in a variety of small group structures and interaction with multimedia software. “Ad-libs” in response to students questions and comments are the most frequently found type of humor in college classrooms. The last form of spontaneous humor is the ad-lib in response to outside interruptions, distractions, and physical and equipment breakdowns. Any computational problem can be transformed into a joke item by rewriting the description of the problem. The “serious” test items can be converted into humorous items following the same humor formula used to develop the humorous examples and problem sets described previously.
