Active Learning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Active Learning

Interdependent Catalysts for Transforming Learning Environments ... and the Faculty Who Teach in Them

September 22, 2010

Key Takeaways Designers of technology-rich interactive learning environments must consider the interdependent factors of physical and virtual spaces, faculty, students, and institutional in…

Hotseat: Opening the Backchannel in Large Lectures

September 22, 2010

Key Takeaways Despite their flaws as teaching and learning environments, large lectures remain a standard teaching approach because of their relatively low cost, ease of preparation, and lo…

Reflections on Play, Pedagogy, and World of Warcraft

September 22, 2010

Key Takeaways The video game World of Warcraft was the text studied, the laboratory, and the classroom for the online course "Warcraft: Culture, Gender, and Identity"…

Active Learning Classrooms at McGill

September 13, 2010

Active Learning Classrooms are spaces that are designed to support teaching and learning in an atmosphere conducive to engaging students actively in their own learning. McGill’s Teaching and …

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…

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…

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,…

Erik Christensen

Chair, Natural Science Department

South Florida State College

Avon Park, Florida

UNITED STATES

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…

Creating Learning Environments That Engage Today's Learners

March 16, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2010

During the EDUCAUSE Teaching and Learning Challenges 2009 Project (http://www.educause.edu/eli/challenges), the community identified "creating learning environments that promote active learnin…