Active Learning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Active Learning

Why Intervention and Impact Evaluation Is Critical for Improving Student Learning

February 4, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting

This session will highlight effective strategies for designing and assessing the impact of interventions aimed at improving learning. Drawing on two recent SEI case studies that reported research…

Blueprint for Change in an Era of Rapid Reinvention - Sponsored by Higher One

November 8, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference

Nations face an educational imperative: Educate more people, better, faster, and with higher quality. But a single model will not suffice. Education is a complex, adaptive system involving learne…

Seminar 17P - Designing, Supporting, and Evaluating Active Learning Spaces PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.

October 18, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Active learning spaces support teaching and learning in a technology-rich, collaborative environment designed to engage students in their own learning. McGill University has developed principles fo…

Using Slate Tablets to Promote Active Learning

January 11, 2012 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012

The "Experience IT" format offers a hands-on, highly interactive introduction to newer tools and technologies so you can explore their potential impact in the workplace and classroom and …

How Instructors Make Meaning of Features in Active Learning Spaces and the Impact on Student Learning

October 21, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Active learning spaces are technology-rich, collaborative environments designed to engage students actively in their own learning. This highly interactive session will provide an opportunity to dis…

Is It Fair? Is It Legal? Using Active Learning to Teach About Intellectual Property and Citation Ethics

March 29, 2011 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2011

The panel discussion will explore ways of educating students about issues of information ownership, including plagiarism, copyright, and fair use. The panelists, from Dartmouth and MassArt, have de…

Seminar 14A - Designing and Supporting Active Learning Classrooms

October 12, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Active learning classrooms support teaching and learning in a technology-rich, collaborative environment designed to engage students actively in their own learning. This session will focus on provi…

Engaged, Empowered and Enabled: The New K–12 Student Vision for Learning

October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Since 2003, the Speak Up National Research Project has collected authentic feedback about education and technology from 1.5 million K–12 students. In this review of the most recent data findings,…

Certifying Higher Education's Learning Spaces

October 15, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

The LEED standard (see http://www.usgbc.org/) has influenced the promotion, design, and construction of green buildings. Could a similar standard for learning spaces in higher education encourage t…

Technology in the Field: Tablet PCs in Higher Education

January 20, 2009 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2009

Field-based classes are enhanced by pen-enabled tablet PCs. The mobility of a tablet PC allows Vassar students to investigate geospatial and statistical problems in the field with software, a full …