Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
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Active learning
Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
- About
- Events
- 2020 Spring Workshops
- 2020 Winter Breakout Schedule
- 2019 Fall Workshop Schedule
- 2019 Spring Breakout Workshops
- 2019 Winter Breakout workshops
- Spring 2019 Workshops
- 2018 Winter breakout schedule
- Fall 2018 workshops
- Past Events
- 2020 Summer Workshops
- 2021 Winter Breakout workshops
- Fall 2020 Workshops
- Summer Reading Group
- Badges
- Reading Group
- Digital Accessibility
- Resources
- Tea for Teaching podcast
- Teaching Squares
- 2020 Spring Breakout Workshop Series
Overview
Active Learning is the process of students engaging in practices other than passively listening to lectures in order to increase their academic intake. Though the 50-minute lecture is the dominant method for instruction, it is not necessarily the most effective. Part of the issue with this method of teaching is that it does not account for how students actually learn material (Barr & Tagg, 1995). Different activities such as reading, group activities, and discussions create useful enhancements to the tradition lecture (Faust & Paulson, 1998). The main objective of Active Learning is to promote analysis and evaluation of classroom and content, and to create an environment where students are more engaged in the material presented.
Online Resources:
- Focus Games Ltd. - A company that builds and creates board games for the classroom.
- Promoting Active Learning - Stanford University
- Active Learning Strategies and Activities - University of Minnesota
- Techniques and Activities - California State University
- Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom. Charles C. Bonwell.
- "Twilight of the Lecture."Harvard Magazine, March-April 2013
Videos
Active Learning Instructional Activities - Doug Hemphill (1/17/2014)
- In this workshop presentation, Doug Hemphill will discuss a variety of active learning instructional activities that may be used to enhance face-to-face, blended, or online classes.
References
- Barr, R. B., & Tagg, J. (1995). From teaching to learning: A new paradigm for undergraduate education. Change, 27(6), 13-25.
- Jennifer L. Faust and Donald R. Paulson (1998), Active Learning in the College Classroom. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. 9 (2): 3-24.
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