Active Learning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Active Learning

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…

Situational Qualities Exhibited by Exceptional Presenters

October 18, 2011

Bad presentations are commonplace, but rather than focus on what is wrong with bad presentations, the authors looked at what makes an exceptional presentation . They referenced recent…

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 …

Clickers in the Classroom: Transforming Students into Active Learners

July 5, 2011

This research bulletin discusses a program at the University of South Carolina to implement SRSs in the classroom and to study the impacts that the technology has on student outcomes. In our…

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…

Lance Eaton

Coordinator of Instructional Design

North Shore Community College

Danvers, Massachusetts

UNITED STATES

The Educational Potential of Mobile Computing in the Field

March 29, 2011

Key Takeaways Giving students hands-on experience of field work with mobile tablet PCs loaded with visualization software facilitates active learning and integration of complex …

7 Things You Should Know About Open Textbook Publishing

March 8, 2011

The open educational resources model, including textbooks, has emerged as a response to rising text prices, a need for greater access to high-quality learning materials, the proliferation of e-r…

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…

Learning through Situated Simulations: Exploring Mobile Augmented Reality

January 18, 2011

This ECAR research bulletin illustrates and reports on a series of experiments with situated simulations that have been tested with students in real environments in Norway, Athens, and Rome over…