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Bridging the Gap: Active Learning Strategies for Traditional and Online Classrooms

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I was watching as a few of my students took notes while the remaining students sat passively, perhaps hoping my animated gestures and pacing would somehow osmotically transfer my explanation of classical conditioning into their brains. Yet simply abandoning these proven engagement strategies isn’t the answer.

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

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Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. By aligning instructional strategies with how the brain naturally learns, educators can create environments where students thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Lets examine a few examples from the research.

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How to Significantly Improve Student Engagement and Retained Learning in Higher Education

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After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge. What are the Necessary Steps to Specifically Help SES Students?

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Conversation and Coursework: Strategies to Engage Undergraduate Students with Course Content 

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Peer-to-peer conversations can help students to make connections with each other and course content. There has been a noticeable decline in students’ engagement with course materials, evidenced by reduced annotations and superficial reading habits (Deale & Hyun, 2021; Mizrachi & Salaz, 2022).It Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A.,

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Reimagining the Flipped Classroom: Integrating AI, Microlearning, and Learning Analytics to Elevate Student Engagement and Critical Thinking 

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In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Today, the flipped classroom is no longer just about moving lectures online but about curating immersive, personalized learning environments. Flipped Classroom 2.0:

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Reimagining the Flipped Classroom: Integrating AI, Microlearning, and Learning Analytics to Elevate Student Engagement and Critical Thinking 

Faculty Focus

In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Today, the flipped classroom is no longer just about moving lectures online but about curating immersive, personalized learning environments. Flipped Classroom 2.0:

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

k12 Digest

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. By aligning instructional strategies with how the brain naturally learns, educators can create environments where students thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Lets examine a few examples from the research.

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