Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

Active Learning Classrooms (ALC) are student-centered spaces that support engagement, group collaborations and instructor-student interaction. The technology and seating arrangements in these rooms is ...

Team building promotes problem solving, efficiency and reliability. Listening is a critical communication skill and involves much more than the act of just hearing what someone says. Team members who ...

"Active learning" is a general term that describes any time that students get to learn something by performing an activity in class—such as answering a poll question, think-pair-sharing, working in ...

Please join us for the next Eyes on Teaching workshop, Active Learning in Practice, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, in the BLC, room 5017. Come and experience live Active Learning Exercises ...

Active learning produces the same student learning outcomes in both flipped and nonflipped classrooms, according to new research from Brigham Young University (BYU). In the flipped classroom model, ...

For well over a decade, I’ve been exploring the science of learning, cognitive neuroscience, research on memory and studies of pedagogy, as well as reading everything I can get my hands on having to ...

Scott Freeman has assembled the evidence: When STEM courses are taught using active-learning techniques rather than a standard lecture, students perform better, according to a widely cited ...

Flipped and active learning truly are a better way for students to learn, but they also may be a fast track to instructor burnout. I am an active learning college instructor and I'm tired. I don't ...

Active and Collaborative Learning Strategies The classic: think-pair-share Think-pair-share (TPS) is the black dress of active learning: a highly flexible tool that can take as little or as much time ...