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Engaging Students in Active Learning
Fall 2008
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What people say about this LearnShop...
"I now have the confidence to teach with energy and enthusiasm."
-- participant from the Spring 2002
class
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Materials
Photo Album!
 Slide show of class members in action
from Spring 2002 and Fall 2002
External Resources
- Network for Cooperative Learning in Higher Education
The Network began as a FIPSE-sponsored organization designed to disseminate group- and active-learning research and practice at the college level. From 1990-1999, the Network published the Cooperative Learning and College Teaching newsletter. Much of the content presented on this site was previously published by New Forums Press in the newsletter or in related monographs.
http://www.csudh.edu/SOE/cl_network/
- Active Learning For The College Classroom
by Donald R. Paulson and Jennifer L. Faust , California State University, LA.
"The past decade has seen an explosion of interest among college faculty in the teaching methods variously grouped under the terms 'active learning' and 'cooperative learning'. However, even with this interest, there remains much misunderstanding of and mistrust of the pedagogical "movement" behind the words. The majority of all college faculty still teach their classes in the traditional lecture mode. Some of the criticism and hesitation seems to originate in the idea that techniques of active and cooperative learning are genuine alternatives to, rather than enhancements of, professors' lectures. We provide below a survey of a wide variety of active learning techniques which can be used to supplement rather than replace lectures. "
http://chemistry.calstatela.edu/Chem&BioChem/active/index.htm
- Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom
by Charles C. Bonwell and James A. Eison (1991)
"Research consistently has shown that traditional lecture methods, in which professors talk and students listen, dominate college and university classrooms. It is therefore important to know the nature of active learning, the empirical research on its use, the common obstacles and barriers that give rise to faculty members' resistance to interactive instructional techniques, and how faculty, faculty developers, administrators, and educational researchers can make real the promise of active learning."
http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/91-9dig.htm
- Active Learning on the Web
by Bernie Dodge, Department of Educational Technology, San Diego State University
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/Active/ActiveLearning.html
- Active Learning in Higher Education
"focuses on all aspects of developments, innovations and good practice in higher education teaching and learning worldwide, including the use of Communication and Information Technologies (C&IT). The journal includes accounts of research by those active in the field of learning and teaching in higher education, and overviews of topics, accounts of action research, outputs from subject-specific project teams, case studies and theoretical perspectives."
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=105463
- The Web: Design for Active Learning
By Katy Campbell, Academic Technologies for Learning, University of Alberta, "This handbook will present the idea of interactivity as it applies to a cohesive design including high interface, content, and instructional design."
http://webxtc.extension.ualberta.ca/documents/articles/activeLearning001.htm
- Active Learning with PowerPoint
from the University of Minnesota, "Despite the fact that so much has been written about PowerPointÕs weaknesses, instructors still feel compelled to adapt PowerPoint to the classroom. This tutorial is designed to help you capitalize on those aspects of PowerPoint that lend themselves best to engaging students interests."
http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/workshops/powerp/index.html
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