Active Learning

What is Active Learning?

Active Learning is a learning process that includes the following attributes:

• “Requires students to collect and synthesize information, practice critical thinking, and engage in problem-solving activities.
• Emulates real-life situations that graduates will experience in a non-academic setting.
• Weaves together a continuum of instructional strategies to engage learners in the learning process (simple to complex, and less time to more time to plan and implement).
• Prioritizes the role and goal of student self-regulation aimed at understanding one’s learning needs, content knowledge, and discipline-specific methods, and takes action to improve in the identified areas.
• Shares agency between instructor and students.”

For more on active learning, see this article.