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Active Learning
Active Learning is any approach to instruction in which all students are asked to engage in the learning process. In this section we take an in-depth look at active learning strategies, including practical tips for how to make your educational settings more active, engaging and meaningful.
General Resources
- Assessment Week 2018: How do I make my lectures more Active, Engaging, & Meaningful?In this webinar, the non-tech and low-tech supported active learning solutions that promote student engagement, learning, and development of higher level cognitive skills during lectures were explored. By implementing these tools and strategies, you’ll better engage large student audiences.
- Examples of Classroom Assessment TechniquesThere are many variations of classroom assessment techniques. Linked above you will find some of the more commonly known techniques.
- K. Patricia Cross Academy Instructional VideosThis website offers teaching techniques that are practical to use and address many dimensions of learning. Videos are continually in production, please check back as videos and resources are added.
Videos
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On Demand Modules
TLC's Active Learning Series
This series took an in-depth look at active learning strategies; including practical tips for how to make your educational settings more active, engaging, and meaningful. Each session offers practical strategies, tips from our experts, and tools you can immediately implement. These strategies can help make your educational setting more student-centered and engaging in order to promote higher-level learning.
PDF Guide to the TLC On-Demand Active Learning Series
- Terms of EngagementA common challenge for many professors today is achieving persistent, high-quality student participation. In this tightly focused workshop, faculty will learn a dynamic framework for understanding what ‘student engagement’ means as well as strategies for promoting it. Participants will leave with a framework for how to understand and promote engagement as well as a repertoire of practical strategies for fostering sustained attention and eliciting students’ best work in their own courses. This workshop has been divided into three, hour-long modules.
- Expanding your Repertoire of Effective Group Work ActivitiesInvolving students in collaborative learning is a powerful teaching strategy, but we sometimes rely on a limited number of familiar activities. This 1-hour webinar will provide attendees with an increased toolbox of effective group work assignments by introducing them to group learning techniques in six categories: discussion, problem solving, reciprocal peer teaching, graphic information organizing, writing, and games.
- Interactive LecturingEducators would be hard-pressed to identify a teaching method more heartily maligned than the lecture. Critics call lectures boring, obsolete, and unfair. Such criticisms, however, typically target one type of lecture: the full-session, transmission-model lecture. Research documents that this type of lecture is not the most effective teaching method. Lectures, however, can enhance engagement when paired with active learning methods that provide students with ways to prepare, participate and apply what they have learned. In this session, participants will explore a new model that combines engaging presentations and active learning techniques.
- Learning Assessment TechniquesAssessment activities can be harnessed in a powerful process that can help us to develop the knowledge we need to improve student learning. In this session, participants will learn about learning assessment, and how it involves a scholarly approach to linking learning goals, active learning strategies, and assessment in a seamless whole.
- Design your Engaged Learning PlanWell-designed active learning strategies encourage our students to prepare, participate and apply what they have learned; thus leading to improved learning outcomes. During our fall series, “Let’s Get Active. Facilitate Active Learning,” Dr. Elizabeth Barkley and Dr. Claire Major have presented various ways to engage students with a variety of active learning strategies. The major challenge is knowing how to put it all together and create your own engaged learning plan. In this highly-interactive workshop, you will explore three aspects critical to designing your own engaged learning plan. We will discuss the factors necessary to engage and hold your students’ attention, methods for explaining the lesson’s value, and how to maintain engagement with effective communication techniques.
- Why is it a Good Fit? Facilitating TBL and Collaborative LearningTeam-based learning (TBL) is a teaching strategy that offers the benefits of small group learning by creating opportunities for students to apply recently learned content through a process of preparatory work, assessment, teamwork and timely feedback. This workshop is designed to prepare you to plan and facilitate TBL lessons for your courses. This session will teach you about TBL, using TBL. This format will allow you to explore the nature of TBL, witness the educational value while experiencing the lesson from the student experience. The specific structure, process, and essential characteristics of an effective TBL module will be emphasized. You will have the opportunity to discuss the details and practicalities of how to design and deliver TBL within your existing course.
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Bibliography
Bibliography
The following list includes recommended articles and books related to active learning.
7 Things You Should Know About Flipped Classrooms - A brief introduction to the flipped classroom model from the Educause Learning Initiative