Active Learning

Understanding Student Resistance to Active Learning

Michael Prince, PhD and Maryellen Weimer, PhD November 2, 2017

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 benefits to traditionally underrepresented student groups. Addressing two key questions

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Using Brief Moments of Inquiry to Enrich Student Learning

Linda K. Shadiow, PhD October 1, 2017

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 local astronomer Clyde Tombaugh who had discovered Pluto in 1930.

Afterthoughts

Julie Empric October 1, 2017

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 accretive design but regularly loses opportunities to maximize deep learning

23 Practical Strategies to Help New Teachers Thrive

Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti, MS September 4, 2017

“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 to teach a course on his or her area of

Asking Better Questions about Active Learning

Maryellen Weimer July 17, 2017

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 and, according to Streveler and Menekse (2017), “allow us to

Why Students Resist Active Learning

Maryellen Weimer May 2, 2017

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 favors active learning over lecture. And although many still lecture,

Students Teaching Students

Deborah George, PhD April 25, 2017

Educators continue to provide excellent learning opportunities that develop the knowledge and skills required by disciplines. But generally the focus is on what students need to know and be able to do within that discipline only. If there is an attempt to provide an interdisciplinary

Four Ways to Teach More Effectively

Maryellen Weimer March 17, 2017

“No scientist wanting to remain at the leading edge of a field would use a research technique judged no longer as effective as an alternative. Shouldn’t we apply the same standard to teaching?” (2151) Substitute the word “scholar” for “scientist,” and it’s a question that

Nine Activities to Focus Student Learning

James M. Lang February 2, 2017

Research in cognitive theory suggests that small, timely interventions in any type of classroom environment can maximize learning for our students. One approach to using such interventions would be to use them in the opening minutes of class, at the midway mark, and in

Team-Based Learning: Strategies for Getting Started [Transcript]

Jim Sibley December 1, 2016

Making sure students come to class prepared is an ongoing challenge for all faculty members.

With the Readiness Assurance Process, Team-Based Learning (TBL) helps instructors and students alike get past this age-old obstacle. This seminar transcript delves into TBL’s problem-solving framework and discovers how you can

Active Learning

Understanding Student Resistance to Active Learning

Using Brief Moments of Inquiry to Enrich Student Learning

Afterthoughts

23 Practical Strategies to Help New Teachers Thrive

Asking Better Questions about Active Learning

Why Students Resist Active Learning

Students Teaching Students

Four Ways to Teach More Effectively

Nine Activities to Focus Student Learning

Team-Based Learning: Strategies for Getting Started [Transcript]

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