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 ...

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 ...

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.

Active and Collaborative Learning Strategies The classic: think-pair-share Think-pair-share (TPS) is the black dress of active learning: a highly flexible tool that can take as little or as much time ...

An often-referenced metastudy of more than 225 separate studies of learning found that, by every measure, active learning is more effective for every kind of student, in every discipline, than the ...

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 ...

Active learning, or instructional methods that actively engage students in their own learning, is on the rise. So, too, are physical spaces dedicated to this kind of teaching. These are positive ...

Traditional lectures are efficient at delivering information, especially for large courses with limited teaching support. Lectures, however, are often inefficient at engaging students to create ...

Everyone has a different style of learning. Some people do well with reading the written word. Others learn better through audio. For some, sitting in a quiet library or home office space is key. For ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been the type of learner who needs to see information laid out visually to understand how it fits together. It’s how I best retain information. I guess I’m just one ...

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 ...