While active learning encourages students to think for themselves, direct instruction, as its name suggests, prioritizes students listening to teachers as the primary method of teaching.

What impact does the implementation of active learning strategies and flexible, collaborative learning spaces have on students and faculty? As part of CWRU’s active learning initiative, four ...

Traditional, fixed-seat classrooms appear to similarly hinder active learning. There is more active learning where assessment of teaching effectiveness is valued but where student evaluations of ...

When using active learning, instructors engage students through peer instruction techniques and hands-on interactions with course content material. This page contains a list of common active learning ...

By reading, thinking, talking, and writing about meaningful content, young children can engage in meaningful literacy and produce high-quality work.

For well over a decade, I’ve been exploring the science of learning, cognitive neuroscience, research on memory and studies of pedagogy, as well as reading everything I can get my hands on having to ...

Browse for active learning strategies to incorporate for individual work time, group work, pair activities, and more. Group and Team-based learning strategies from the University of Connecticut ...

While the basic elements of active learning classrooms are well known, no one-size-fits-all template exists. Here's how to achieve the custom fit your school needs.

As an example imagine younger primary children physically embodying punctuation marks as a classmate reads aloud a passage from a book. Physically active learning ...

Two incidental learning experiments examined the formation of interitem associations under task demands that encouraged different types of rehearsal in short-term memory. Subjects were assumed to ...

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 ...

This supports active learning through individual assessment of learning and formative feedback. Simulation: Incorporation of simulations into pre-clinical education can greatly break up the monotony ...