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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In my 12 years of undergraduate teaching, I’ve never had a freshman verbally attack me for asking my Composition students to bring a hard copy of their writing assignment to a designated writing ...

In 2019, Ghana introduced a new curriculum for basic schools that strongly promotes learner-centred teaching. The idea is ...

As the school year here in Massachusetts comes to an end, parents have already begun preparing for the next one.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...