While hundreds of peer-reviewed studies have concluded that students taught in an active learning environment are significantly more likely to outperform peers who are in classes taught more ...

Active learning and student attention College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, ...

Peer support can be a critical service to struggling students. The learning assistant program at Western Illinois University creates an active learning environment in introductory STEM courses, ...

When developing active learning classrooms in higher education, be sure to consider these best practices from classroom design ideas across all silos to creating active learning pilot programs. Read ...

Class discussions are a common technique used to produce active learning in a classroom. However, in large classes we often find that class discussions are dominated by only a few students whereas ...

In a flipped classroom environment, professors focus more on active learning, which involves reflection, group work and problem solving, rather than lecturing for an hour straight.

Active Learning Classrooms Inspire New Ways of Thinking It’s hard to find a university today that doesn’t have a modern classroom somewhere on campus. Less common, however, are institutions such as ...

The scholarship of teaching and learning increasingly recognizes that active and dynamic instructional models promote better, more holistic, and lasting educational outcomes. This article summarizes ...

Rote memorization and large lecture halls have been replaced by active learning classrooms where students work collaboratively to solve problems. The result is greater learning outcomes and an ...

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 ...