Active Learning

Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom
Defines and identifies the importance of active learning, provides some implementation strategies, highlights some barriers associated with its use, and provides recommendations for use.
(ERIC Digest - for the full report - visit the UG library LB 1027.23.B66)

From Teaching to Learning: Part III. Lectures and Approaches to Active Learning
Examines some of the more practical issues related to active learning and identifies some ways in which professors can enhance the lecture in order to increase student learning and activity within that instructional setting.

Active Learning: Getting Students to Work and Think in the Classroom
Provides an introduction, definition, and list of benefits and challenges associated with active learning. Also included are suggestions on how to break up the 50 minute lecture through the use of questioning and discussion; cooperative learning; and role plays and case studies. Most helpful is the chart on page 3 which classifies instructional strategies according to the level of student activity and risk involved.

Focusing on Active, Meaningful Learning
One professor shares her outlook and role in supporting student learning using an active learning approach. She begins by defining what active and meaningful learning means, then shares a number of activities and strategies to involve students in the learning process.