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Active Learning

Fortunately, actively learning can become part of an instructor’s lectures in small steps. Incorporating one of these activities into your already created lectures is a great step in getting students ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Which Is Better, Active Learning or Lecture? It’s Not So Simple.

Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it has ...
Brandeis University

Center for Teaching and Learning

"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 ...
Inside Higher Ed

What Impacts Active Learning in STEM?

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. A recent study of 3,769 undergraduate science instructors found that certain factors predicted their ...
Briefly

A Local Teacher Shows the Impact of Active Learning on Academic Success

A TikTok video of a teacher's energetic, movement-based approach is transforming the classroom with active teaching methods to boost learners' engagement.
Science Daily

More learning in 'active learning' classrooms, but students don't know it

A new study shows that, though students felt like they learned more from traditional lectures, they actually learned more when taking part in active learning classrooms. For decades, there has been ...

Teachers increasingly sharing active-learning lessons with colleagues, study shows

A newly published study by Cornell researchers shows that university professors have responded to concerns about learning ...
Inside Higher Ed

Can Active Learning Co-Exist With Physically Distanced Classrooms?

Welcome to "Transforming Teaching and Learning," a column that explores how colleges and professors are reimagining how they teach and how students learn. If you'd like to receive the free ...
The Conversation

Chalk and talk vs. active learning: what’s holding South African teachers back from using proven methods?

Lizélle Pretorius received funding from UNISA as part of a bursary when completing her PhD. She is currently a member of ISATT (International Study Association of Teachers and Teaching) and the Junior ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Can This University Change Its Teaching Culture?

T im Samples could tell that his students were stuck. Earlier this semester, Samples, an associate professor in the legal-studies program at the University of Georgia, was teaching students about the ...
University of Wyoming

Active Learning Spectrum

There are many active learning modalities informed by different teaching and learning traditions. We envision these modalities on a spectrum. This spectrum can be rearranged depending on the quality ...