Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it has ...

Dig into the lessons from one department’s foray into active learning. Share findings from a new study on students’ familiarity with active learning. Pass along a resource on normalizing failure.

When it comes to classroom edtech use, digital tools have a drastically different impact when they are used actively instead of passively–a critical difference examined in the 2023-2024 Speak Up ...

Active Learning has been referred to as many things, including “project-based learning” and “flipped classes.” The fundamental premise of active learning is the replacement of passive class time with ...

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 ...

Active learning means getting students involved—not just listening, but doing, reflecting, and engaging. As Bonwell & Eison (1991) put it, it's “anything that involves students in doing things and ...

Duah: Using puzzles, both at home and in classrooms, can restore the often-forgotten truth that learning happens in ...

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 ...

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

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 ...