Active Learning Strategies in Higher Education

Active Learning Strategies in Higher Education

Author: Anastasia Misseyanni

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2018-04-06

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1787144887

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This book focuses on selected best practices for effective active learning in Higher Education. Contributors present the epistemology of active learning along with specific case studies from different disciplines and countries. Discussing issues around ICTs, collaborative learning, experiential learning and other active learning strategies.


Active Learning Strategies in Higher Education

Active Learning Strategies in Higher Education

Author: Anastasia Misseyanni

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2018-04-06

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1787144879

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This book focuses on selected best practices for effective active learning in Higher Education. Contributors present the epistemology of active learning along with specific case studies from different disciplines and countries. Discussing issues around ICTs, collaborative learning, experiential learning and other active learning strategies.


Implementing Interactive Learning Strategies in Higher Education

Implementing Interactive Learning Strategies in Higher Education

Author: Railean, Elena Aurel

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13:

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Higher education faces the ongoing challenge of engaging students in successful lifelong learning despite rapidly evolving environments. Traditional teaching methods need to be revised to prepare students for the complexities of modern society, as they currently leave a gap between theory and practice. To address this dilemma, Implementing Interactive Learning Strategies in Higher Education offers a comprehensive framework and the latest empirical research to help educators address students' diverse learning needs. The book focuses on active and interactive learning strategies, cognitive and metacognitive approaches, and social-emotional learning techniques. It provides practical insights for educators across disciplines, including adaptive learning strategies and innovative digital engagement methods.


How Students Learn

How Students Learn

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2005-01-23

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 0309074339

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How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical functions are relevant to their everyday lives? In this volume, practical questions that confront every classroom teacher are addressed using the latest exciting research on cognition, teaching, and learning. How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom builds on the discoveries detailed in the bestselling How People Learn. Now, these findings are presented in a way that teachers can use immediately, to revitalize their work in the classroom for even greater effectiveness. Organized for utility, the book explores how the principles of learning can be applied in teaching history, science, and math topics at three levels: elementary, middle, and high school. Leading educators explain in detail how they developed successful curricula and teaching approaches, presenting strategies that serve as models for curriculum development and classroom instruction. Their recounting of personal teaching experiences lends strength and warmth to this volume. The book explores the importance of balancing students' knowledge of historical fact against their understanding of concepts, such as change and cause, and their skills in assessing historical accounts. It discusses how to build straightforward science experiments into true understanding of scientific principles. And it shows how to overcome the difficulties in teaching math to generate real insight and reasoning in math students. It also features illustrated suggestions for classroom activities. How Students Learn offers a highly useful blend of principle and practice. It will be important not only to teachers, administrators, curriculum designers, and teacher educators, but also to parents and the larger community concerned about children's education.


Active Learning

Active Learning

Author: Charles C. Bonwell

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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This monograph examines the nature of active learning at the higher education level, the empirical research on its use, the common obstacles and barriers that give rise to faculty resistance, and how faculty and staff can implement active learning techniques. A preliminary section defines active learning and looks at the current climate surrounding the concept. A second section, entitled "The Modified Lecture" offers ways that teachers can incorporate active learning into their most frequently used format: the lecture. The following section on classroom discussion explains the conditions and techniques needed for the most useful type of exchange. Other ways to promote active learning are also described including: visual learning, writing in class, problem solving, computer-based instruction, cooperative learning, debates, drama, role playing, simulations, games, and peer teaching. A section on obstacles to implementing active learning techniques leads naturally to the final section, "Conclusions and Recommendations," which outlines the roles that each group within the university can play in order to encourage the implementation of active learning strategies. The text includes over 200 references and an index. (JB)


A Guide to Teaching in the Active Learning Classroom

A Guide to Teaching in the Active Learning Classroom

Author: Paul Baepler

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1000976777

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While Active Learning Classrooms, or ALCs, offer rich new environments for learning, they present many new challenges to faculty because, among other things, they eliminate the room’s central focal point and disrupt the conventional seating plan to which faculty and students have become accustomed.The importance of learning how to use these classrooms well and to capitalize on their special features is paramount. The potential they represent can be realized only when they facilitate improved learning outcomes and engage students in the learning process in a manner different from traditional classrooms and lecture halls.This book provides an introduction to ALCs, briefly covering their history and then synthesizing the research on these spaces to provide faculty with empirically based, practical guidance on how to use these unfamiliar spaces effectively. Among the questions this book addresses are:• How can instructors mitigate the apparent lack of a central focal point in the space?• What types of learning activities work well in the ALCs and take advantage of the affordances of the room?• How can teachers address familiar classroom-management challenges in these unfamiliar spaces?• If assessment and rapid feedback are critical in active learning, how do they work in a room filled with circular tables and no central focus point?• How do instructors balance group learning with the needs of the larger class?• How can students be held accountable when many will necessarily have their backs facing the instructor?• How can instructors evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching in these spaces?This book is intended for faculty preparing to teach in or already working in this new classroom environment; for administrators planning to create ALCs or experimenting with provisionally designed rooms; and for faculty developers helping teachers transition to using these new spaces.


Cases on Technology Enhanced Learning through Collaborative Opportunities

Cases on Technology Enhanced Learning through Collaborative Opportunities

Author: Mukerji, Siran

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2010-03-31

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 161520752X

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"The collection of cases in the book analyzes and evaluates how organizations and institutions of learning in the developing and developed world are adapting to technology enhanced learning environments and exploring transnational collaborative opportunities"--Provided by publisher.


Research Handbook on the Student Experience in Higher Education

Research Handbook on the Student Experience in Higher Education

Author: Chi Baik

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-11-03

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 1802204199

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Bringing together cutting-edge research from over 50 leading international scholars, this forward-looking Research Handbook offers theoretical and empirical insights into the student experience in higher education.


ECEL2015-14th European Conference on e-Learning,

ECEL2015-14th European Conference on e-Learning,

Author: Amanda Jefferies and Marija Cubric

Publisher: Academic Conferences and publishing limited

Published: 2015-10-13

Total Pages: 852

ISBN-13: 1910810703

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These Proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 14th European Conference on e-Learning, ECEL 2015, hosted this year by the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK on 29-30 October 2015. The Conference and Programme Co-Chairs are Pro-fessor Amanda Jefferies and Dr Marija Cubric, both from the University of Hertfordshire. The conference will be opened with a keynote address by Professor Patrick McAndrew, Director, Institute of Educational Tech-nology, Open University, UK with a talk on "Innovating for learning: designing for the future of education." On the second day the keynote will be delivered by Professor John Traxler, University of Wolverhampton, UK on the subject of "Mobile Learning - No Longer Just e-Learning with Mobiles." ECEL provides a valuable platform for individuals to present their research findings, display their work in progress and discuss conceptual advances in many different branches of e-Learning. At the same time, it provides an important opportunity for members of the EL community to come together with peers, share knowledge and exchange ideas. With an initial submission of 169 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 86 academic papers,16 Phd Papers, 5 Work in Progress papers and 1 non academic papers in these Conference Proceedings. These papers reflect the truly global nature of research in the area with contributions from Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Chile, Cov-entry, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Republic of Kazakhstan, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Uganda, UK, United Arab Emirates, UK and USA, Zimbabwe. A selection of papers - those agreed by a panel of reviewers and the editor will be published in a special conference edition of the EJEL (Electronic Journal of e-Learning www.ejel.org ).