Active Learning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Active Learning

Video Outside the Lectern

June 3, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2011

This session will outline the campus-wide integration of video content throughout curricula at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Examples will focus on the creation of video content ou…

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,…

Rebooting the Past, Uploading the Future: Web 2.0 and the Study of History Through a Living Learning Community (Learning Technology)

January 19, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

In this case study, the instructor, the undergraduate teaching assistant, and a library administrator will assess how new media and Web 2.0 technologies transform project-based learning within a un…

Five Years of Course Redesign: Lessons Learned (Innovative Practice)

January 20, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

Large-enrollment undergraduate classes are an instructional ghetto in higher education. We know that hands-on experiential learning, especially in collaboration with other students, is a superior p…

Active Learning in Field-Based Classes Using Tablet PCs for Collaborative Data Collection and Mapping (Learning Technology)

January 21, 2009 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2009

Tablet PCs in higher education field courses have changed the way we teach field-mapping and data-collection concepts. Curriculum redesign and assessment strategies were applied to field archaeolog…

Learning Architectures That Help Biology Students Reach the Pinnacle of Bloom's Taxonomy

September 17, 2008 | A session at the ELI 2008 Fall Focus Session

This session will present the academic architecture of a new course for entering biology majors and explore how the physical architecture of the Active Learning Classroom at the University of Minne…