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 ...

As a full-time teacher completing a Ph.D. part-time, I made a decision early on: do research that speaks to the daily ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

"Active learning" is a general term that describes any time that students get to learn something by performing an activity in class—such as answering a poll question, think-pair-sharing, working in ...

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 ...

Have you ever given a lecture to a group of adult learners? If so, you may have noticed their eyes losing focus and phones appearing as you moved through your session. This is because the traditional ...

The Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 50, No. 1 (January-March 2019), pp. 33-43 (11 pages) The authors describe an innovative active learning strategy for a course on the economics of developing ...

Analysis - As a full-time teacher completing a PhD part-time, I made a decision early on: do research that speaks to the ...

Scott Freeman has assembled the evidence: When STEM courses are taught using active-learning techniques rather than a standard lecture, students perform better, according to a widely cited ...

Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Vol. 37, No. 1 (spring 2018), pp. 90-103 (14 pages) The author provides ideas for combining ...