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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

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In fact, one such study demonstrated that students who were taught in classroom environments which employed strategies aligned to research such as productive struggle, discourse, movement and problem solving scored significantly higher on post-tests recalling and applying previous learning than the control group.

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Function Follows Form: How Two Colleges Redesigned the Classroom for Active Learning

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Although a wealth of research suggests that active learning increases student engagement and improves academic outcomes, many college campuses struggle to get faculty to shift away from traditional, sage-on-a-stage style teaching practices. One of IU’s early redesign efforts saw it transform an old indoor swimming pool.

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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

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The study — which involved 811 undergraduate students at Florida International University, a large public university in Miami — is perhaps the biggest randomized study of active learning methods in calculus, says Laird Kramer, a physicist at the university and one of the study’s authors.

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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

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In fact, one such study demonstrated that students who were taught in classroom environments which employed strategies aligned to research such as productive struggle, discourse, movement and problem solving scored significantly higher on post-tests recalling and applying previous learning than the control group.

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Building Student Ownership through Active Learning Strategies

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One of the first calls for professors to actively involve their students in learning as a means of achieving higher order skills came from Benjamin Bloom and his widely used Bloom’s Taxonomy (Bloom, 1956). Gallery walk In a gallery walk, the instructor positions items, visuals, or prompts around the classroom.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

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Gabriele Pinto , Baylor University Key Statement: Implementing elements of active learning into a large course may seem daunting task, but think-pair-share aided by quizzing and clickers can be done in any size classroom. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash.

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Building Student Ownership through Active Learning Strategies

Faculty Focus

One of the first calls for professors to actively involve their students in learning as a means of achieving higher order skills came from Benjamin Bloom and his widely used Bloom’s Taxonomy (Bloom, 1956). Gallery walk In a gallery walk, the instructor positions items, visuals, or prompts around the classroom.