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 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 is not a new concept. Though coined by Bonwell and Eisen (1991), aspects of active learning can be found in studies by Piaget, Vygotsky, and Dewey*. Active Learning is a broad set of ...

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 ...

LEarning with Academic Partners (LEAP) program is designed to support students in their first-year engineering courses. LEAP leaders plan and lead one active learning session per week to review and ...

There are many active learning modalities informed by different teaching and learning traditions. We envision these modalities on a spectrum. This spectrum can be rearranged depending on the quality ...

A new study shows that, though students felt like they learned more from traditional lectures, they actually learned more when taking part in active learning classrooms. For decades, there has been ...

Google Gemini's Guided Learning changes passive AI interactions into active learning sessions. Rather than simply receiving information dumps, this feature creates a back-and-forth conversation where ...

During the past six months, we have witnessed some incredible developments in AI. The release of Stable Diffusion forever changed the artworld, and ChatGPT-3 shook up the internet with its ability to ...

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 ...

Fortunately, actively learning can become part of an instructor’s lectures in small steps. Incorporating one of these activities into your already created lectures is a great step in getting students ...