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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 ...

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 ...

One of the challenges of catalyzing a transformation of higher education towards an active learning model is that students are simply not demanding that this change occur. In class this term I showed ...

When Learning is Active, Students See More Value in their College Investment According to Top Hat’s Faculty Preparedness Survey from August 2020, educators were making concerted efforts to prepare for ...

In an age where attention is short and classrooms are increasingly digital, teachers are constantly searching for ways to make participation more interactive and equitable. One unexpected ally in that ...

There are many active learning modalities informed by different teaching and learning traditions. We envision these modalities on a spectrum. This spectrum can be rearranged depending on the quality ...

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 ...