Active Learning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Active Learning

Podcast: Wake Forest University's BioBook

July 17, 2012

In this podcast we interview the creators of BioBook, a scalable e-text embodying six central principles of learning. It is organized into self-contained "nodes" that can be revised or …

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…

Lance Eaton

Coordinator of Instructional Design

North Shore Community College

Danvers, Massachusetts

UNITED STATES

Games: The Best Way to Learn. Period.

October 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

In an age of distraction, information overload, and disengagement, traditional methods of conveying information to students are increasingly ineffective. In this session, we argue that games—with…

Steven Hoover

Instruction Design Librarian

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

UNITED STATES

Teaching Without Walls: Life Beyond the Lecture

September 14, 2009

Malcolm Brown , EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, will moderate this web seminar with Michelle Pacansky-Brock , where she’ll pull back the curtain on the classroom of the future, exp…

Seminar 16P - Top-Ten Ways to Improve Student Learning Using Technology Outside the Classroom

November 3, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

Technology is the most powerful way to increase your nontechnological interaction with students in the classroom. We will explore 10 easy ways for faculty to take advantage of technology to improve…

Transforming the University: Teaching and Learning in Emerging Learning Environments

March 25, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2009

More higher education institutions are embracing opportunities to encourage faculty to teach in emerging learning environments, and faculty are beginning to explore how they might utilize them to e…

Robin Bartoletti

Director, Learning Communities

Academic Partnerships

Dallas, Texas

UNITED STATES

Robert Adams

Director, Center for Learning & Teaching

Loras College

Dubuque, Iowa

UNITED STATES