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 ...

What Do They Mean? Learning is a relatively lasting change in behavior resulting from observation and experience. It is the ...

Further, many higher order cognitive skills such as analyzing, evaluating, and creating require students to practice doing something, and only by actively working with content will students begin to ...

An enriched learning environment with close proximity between teaching and study space. 1. Prince, M. (2004), Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research. Journal of Engineering Education, 93: ...

What is considered an Active Learning Strategy? An active learning strategy is any type of activity during class (face-to-face, online, or outside of class) that engages learners in deep thought about ...

If you are interested in talking about active learning and how to incorporate it into your classroom, please reach out to us at ctl@brandeis.edu! We’d love to help you consider how to do so! We know ...

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 ...

Active learning disrupts this all-too-familiar pattern by inviting students to engage with course material in real-time. Like any disruption, the shift from passive to active engagement can engender ...

Active Learning has been referred to as many things, including “project-based learning” and “flipped classes.” The fundamental premise of active learning is the replacement of passive class time with ...

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 ...

Introduction: What is Active Learning? Active learning can be defined as any strategy “that involves students in doing things and thinking about the things they are doing” (Bonwell & Eison, 1991, p.5) ...