• What is active learning?

• How to implement active learning?

• How will you incorporate active learning and
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Active Teaching for
Active Learning
What is Active Learning?
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 What is Active Learning?
• Active learning
• Activities that engage students in doing something besides listening to a
lecture and taking notes to help them learn and apply course material
• Students may be talking or listening to one another, writing, reading, or
reflecting individually
• Collaborative learning
• Subset of active learning
• Engage students in interacting with one another

• Cooperative learning
• Subset of collaborative learning involving students interacting with one
another under certain conditions (more structured activities)
What is Active Learning?
What is Active Learning?

students solve problems, answer questions, formulate questions

of their own, discuss, explain, debate, or brainstorm during
class

Problem-Based
Learning Learn By Doing

Active Learning

Inquiry-based
Cooperative learning
Learning
Why Active Learning?

Confucius (400 BC):

• What I hear, I forget.
• What I see, I remember.
• What I do, I understand.
Silberman (1996):
• What I hear, I forget.
• What I hear and see, I remember a little.
• What I hear, see, and ask questions about or discuss with someone else, I begin
to understand.
• What I hear, see, discuss and do, I acquire knowledge and skill.
• What I teach to another, I master.
What is the purpose?
• Increase student participation
• Increase student engagement
• Increase student retention
• More student ownership in course
• Less lecturing by instructor
• More exciting classroom experience
• Higher level thinking
What is the purpose?

Goal: Get students engaged in

learning -
Thinking, talking, moving, or
emotionally involved so that what
you teach gets into long-term
memory.
In other words, so they will go from
this

The secret to
being a bore is to
tell everything.
Voltaire
To this
Improving Lectures
• Plan objectives
• Include graphics, charts, graphs, etc
• Plan what you want to annotate
• Learn students’ names
• Cue important points
• Give short activities
• Give students time to generate questions
• Have students summarize major points
Active Techniques
• Think-pair-share (pair-share)
• Role playing, simulations
• Muddiest point/clearest point
• Group quizzing
• Generate lists
• Cooperative learning
• Minute papers and writing assignments
• PBL and case studies
• Concept maps
Why Engage in
Active Learning?
• Has a powerful impact on learners’ learning
• Strategies promoting active learning are
comparable to lectures in promoting the mastery
of content, but superior to lectures in promoting
the development of learners’ thinking skills
Why Engage in
Active Learning?

• Engages learners in higher-order thinking tasks

such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
• Various learning styles are best served by
engaging learners in active learning activities
Benefits of Using
Active Learning
• Active learners use their prior knowledge in
making meaning from the content
• Active learners think critically about and create
their own elaborations
Benefits of Using
Active Learning
• Active learners are cognitively engaged
• Active learners employ a wide range of
reading and learning strategies
 Examples of
Active Learning Strategies
• Think – Pair Share • Supervise Study
• Lecture - Discussion • Demonstration
• Questioning • Panel Discussion
• Case studies
You have jotted down your reflections and
experiences with active learning.

Now, turn to a partner and share your knowledge

and experience.

Do you have anything to share with the class?

Think about how you might use active learning
strategies in your lectures.

Turn to a partner and discuss.

Share your findings with the large group.

- Choose one topic that you like, then design a
method how would you incorporate flipped and
active learning to teach that topic to your students.
- Prepare 6 minutes slide presentation