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 ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

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 ...

Active learning, or instructional methods that actively engage students in their own learning, is on the rise. So, too, are physical spaces dedicated to this kind of teaching. These are positive ...

Co-creation through experiential learning outside the classroom space – working abroad, in the field, in a lab – is fantastic but not always feasible. Can’t leave the classroom? Ed Berger explains how ...

Providing upper elementary students with choices can help teachers differentiate through learning experiences that feel fun.

4. In-Person Approach with Collaborative Type With this instructional strategy, students learn concepts in-person while collaborating with other students to develop deeper connections to the concept.

Guidance on bringing together academic expertise, students’ lived experience and GenAI’s creative capacity to co-design ...

As overall enrollment trends decline across the nation, online enrollments are on the rise, according to a recent survey of chief online officers. Many professors and students, especially community ...

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 ...

College students learn more calculus in an active learning course in which students solve problems during class than in a traditional lecture-based course. That’s according to a peer-reviewed study my ...