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5 essentials for an active learning classroom

Identified by EDUCAUSE as a top strategic technology, active learning classrooms (ALCs) go beyond just outfitting learning spaces with technology. These engaging, dynamic spaces provide new ...
Bdcnetwork.com

The evolution of academic spaces and active learning classrooms

This blog is authored by Shayne Sobell, AIA, NCARB, Project Academic Planner, Page; and Melissa Burns AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Lead Academic Planner and Principal, Page. Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) ...
ung.edu

Active Learning

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 ...
Cfr.org

Active Learning for the Global Affairs Classroom

CFR Education offers a wide variety of ways to help students connect theoretical debates to real-world global affairs in an engaging and civil manner. All of the teaching activities found on the CFR ...
Inside Higher Ed

Scaling Up: Peer-Learning Program Grows Across Colleges

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, ...
Campus Technology

New U-M Classroom Building Emphasizes Active, Team-Based Learning

When classes resume for the Spring 2022 semester at the University of Michigan, a new Central Campus Classroom Building will welcome more than 10,000 students per day, the university said this week in ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

5 Ways to Ease Students Off the Lecture and Into Active Learning

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.
The Conversation

Chalk and talk vs. active learning: what’s holding South African teachers back from using proven methods?

Learning experiences have to include opportunities to develop thinking, skills and values. PickPic As a full-time teacher completing a PhD part-time, I made a decision early on: do research that ...
Drexel University

Active and Collaborative Learning

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 ...
California Lutheran University

Active Learning Classroom

The Active Learning Classroom in the Pearson Library promotes the use of active learning techniques that can aid the student’s mastery of course material, encourage community in the classroom, and ...
Drexel University

Active and Collaborative Learning Strategies

The above menu of classroom activities is by no means exhaustive. Over time, instructors committed to active learning tend to develop their own repertoires and variations. The key to creating active ...