These tips demonstrate that planning for active learning experiences doesn’t have to be time-intensive or difficult.

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

Have you ever given a lecture to a group of adult learners? If so, you may have noticed their eyes losing focus and phones appearing as you moved through your session. This is because the traditional ...

While hundreds of peer-reviewed studies have concluded that students taught in an active learning environment are significantly more likely to outperform peers who are in classes taught more ...

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Peer support can be a critical service to struggling students. The learning assistant program at ...

This blog is authored by Shayne Sobell, AIA, NCARB, Project Academic Planner, Page; and Melissa Burns AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Lead Academic Planner and Principal, Page. Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) ...

Located on the northwestern end of the UC Irvine campus, the Anteater Learning Pavilion (ALP), holds classrooms and collaborative learning spaces for students and staff, and opened in the fall of 2018 ...

Associate Teaching Professor Cecil Joseph remembers the first time he taught physics in one of UMass Lowell’s Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) classrooms. Instead of facing rows of students ...