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 ...

COR 101 encourages instructors to use a variety of teaching methods in class and strongly encourages the use of active learning to enhance student learning. Active learning encompasses a wide variety ...

Team building promotes problem solving, efficiency and reliability. Listening is a critical communication skill and involves much more than the act of just hearing what someone says. Team members who ...

"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 ...

My course evaluations are in. They are mostly encouraging — except for the ones that say I should lecture more. “Lessen the amount of reading per week and just lecture more,” reads one comment.

For well over a decade, I’ve been exploring the science of learning, cognitive neuroscience, research on memory and studies of pedagogy, as well as reading everything I can get my hands on having to ...

Flipped and active learning truly are a better way for students to learn, but they also may be a fast track to instructor burnout. I am an active learning college instructor and I'm tired. I don't ...

L ectures are boring. Assignments are busy work. And all of that tuition is for this? When Justin Shaffer hears these kinds of complaints from students, he thinks they have a point. He also thinks ...

Active and Collaborative Learning Strategies The classic: think-pair-share Think-pair-share (TPS) is the black dress of active learning: a highly flexible tool that can take as little or as much time ...