Active Learning
"Active Learning" is generally defined as any instructional activity that engages students to participate in the learning process, often in groups. This is in contrast to the traditional lecture format where students passively receive information from the instructor.
Teaching and Learning Commons continues to introduce new collaborative classrooms and other active learning initiatives to assist instructors in utilizing interactive modes of teaching. In addition to the list below, new/prototype resources are continually being developed. If you are interested in participating, please let us know.
Resources:
Student Engagement While Transitioning to Hybrid or Remote Teaching
Course Planning and Contingency Preparedness
- Adapting in the age of COVID-19
- Maintain interactivity for communication and engagement
- Reliable strategies and tools for synchronous and asynchronous modalities
Wireless Teaching Pilot
- Use your own familiar mobile device
- Untether from the lectern and engage with students
- 4 simultaneous users can collaborate/participate
Infographics (provided by Applied Human Sciences)
Collaborative Furniture Testing
Demonstrations & Testing Nov. 2018 - Feb. 2019
- Popular furniture brands on display
- Side-by-side "Try before you buy" opportunity
- Promotes Team-Based Active Learning
Collaborative Classrooms
Contains Collaborative Furniture and/or Technology
- Loose table-chair, tablet-arm chair, or swivel-chair units
- More easily used for group/team work
- Often with displays with signal-input for students
TLC Workshops
Request your own session or view one of these:
External Resources:
- Lecture vs Active Learning: Reframing the Conversation, FacultyFocus.com
- Three Active Learning Strategies That Push Students Beyond Memorization, FacultyFocus.com
- Changing the Way We Deliver Instruction, FacultyFocus.com
- Learner-Centered Teaching: 10 Ideas for Getting Started, FacultyFocus.com
- Nine Ways to Improve Class Discussions, Faculty Focus.com
- How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging, Chronicle of Higher Education
- Center for Educational Innovation, University of Minnesota
- Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan
- Indiana's Active-Learning Mosaic Expands, Inside Higher Ed
- 'Active Learning' Math Initiative Expands to 12 Universities, Inside Higher Ed
- Active Learning Increases Student Performance in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences
- Measuring Actual Learning Versus Feeling of Learning in Response to Being Actively Engaged in the Classroom, National Academy of Sciences
- Confessions of a Converted Lecturer by Professor Eric Mazur (Video)
- Active Learning: A Practical Guide for College Faculty (Book)
- Inspiring Active Learning: A Complete Handbook for Today's Teachers (Book)