Active learning is just that – active. Students are involved “in doing things and thinking about the things they are doing” (Bonwell & Eison, 1991). Active learning strategies range from simple pauses ...

Children learn better when they are more active in lessons and have more control over their learning, says a new study. Hands-on activities, discussions, group work, feedback and using AI-enhanced ...

“You just talk to them about how these notions of perceived fluency will influence how much you think that you’re learning,” he said. During active learning, students are reminded of what they don’t ...

Here are 10 principles, or convincing arguments, that we’ve shared with them. Active learning is rigorous. As Nobel Prize–winning physicist Carl Wieman notes in his (very rigorous) Improving How ...

Under active learning, the average failure rate drops from 33.8% to 21.8%. Image Credit: Freeman et al, PNAS. A comparison of how students performed in active learning and lecture courses.

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 ...