Active Learning
The single greatest strategy that I know to stimulate classroom learning is to write with students at the beginning of class. Consider your own pre-class ritual to see if writing with your students might profit you ...
The use of clickers, especially in large classes, has made participation a reality for a lot more students. It's a safe way to offer an answer and an equally constructive way to find out whether ...
Faculty have access to more information about college teaching than ever before. Researchers have studied a host of instructional approaches and published results in myriad journals. Educators have shared summaries of and links to such ...
In recent years, the phrase active learning has become commonplace across the academic disciplines of higher education. Indeed, most faculty members are familiar with definitions that go something like this: Active learning involves tasks that ...
Fear of student resistance prevents many college teachers from adopting active learning strategies. That’s unfortunate, because these strategies have been shown to significantly increase student learning, improve retention in academic programs, and provide especially strong ...
Who discovered Pluto? A colleague described this brief exchange he had with his young daughter as they crossed Tombaugh Street in Flagstaff, Arizona. My colleague, ever the professor, pointed out that the street was named for ...
In face-to-face courses, learning is compartmentalized into blocks that meet a prescribed number of times per week across the term or semester. It's a format that's simultaneously efficient and inhibiting. It effectively facilitates sequenced and ...
“If you know the content, you can teach.” How many of us have heard this sentiment before? How many of us believe it ourselves? It is easy to assume that a content expert is automatically qualified ...
Does active learning work to promote learning? That's the question we've been asking, and it's one we can stop asking. It's been answered—at least that's the consensus within the research community. The results are consistent ...
The recent decades have seen growing faculty interest in learning. Increasingly, teaching is being understood in terms of how well it promotes and facilitates learning. Faculty are more familiar than ever with the evidence that ...
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