Active learning strategies range from simple pauses in lecture, which allow students time to reflect on lecture material, to complex group work to students actively learning outside the classroom. In ...

Active Learning Strategies - Overview Case Studies Case Studies are an engaging classroom technique that helps students connect abstract concepts to real-life scenarios by analyzing and solving ...

Application of Active Learning Active learning in the pre-clinical environment has been implemented in a variety of ways. Medical student populations are typically heterogeneous with students of ...

Think-pair-share (TPS) is the black dress of active learning: a highly flexible tool that can take as little or as much time as needed, and serve a number of pedagogical purposes including ...

In a new Student Voice survey, students share their preferences for class format, active learning strategies and note-taking. Interactive lectures and case studies are especially popular.

Thought experiments can have some advantages over real experiments: they require no special equipment, are low-cost, can be ...

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 ...

Through their 2020 Transformation plan, El Paso Independent School District (EPISD) has used active learning to unlock meaningful learning.

A recent study of 3,769 undergraduate science instructors found that certain factors predicted their use of active learning strategies. Researchers found that instructors of larger classes, with 100 ...

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 ...

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...