Active Learning, Attention and Collaborative Learning

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

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

These parallel yet distinct teaching environments demand intentional strategies that can adapt while maintaining their power to actively engage students in the learning process. Instead, we need to reimagine active learning for both spaces, maintaining the core principles while adapting the execution.

Active Learning

Active Learning Activities Learning Minute Papers

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

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

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. And that dialogue helps inform the work of IU’s learning spaces team.

Active Learning

Active Learning Activities Instructors Learning Spaces

Active Learning Strategies for Students

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: Engage students actively for deeper learning and enhanced academic outcomes Enhance learning through active participation, collaboration, and critical thinking skills Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends Active learning strategies engage students in the learning process, fostering deeper understanding and retention.

Active Learning

Active Learning Activities Critical Thinking Quizzes

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

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

These parallel yet distinct teaching environments demand intentional strategies that can adapt while maintaining their power to actively engage students in the learning process. Instead, we need to reimagine active learning for both spaces, maintaining the core principles while adapting the execution.

Active Learning

Active Learning Activities Learning Minute Papers

Would You Rather: Making Meaning

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2024

This encoding involves attention and perception, allowing the brain to filter and focus on relevant information. This teacher-led model typically positions students as passive recipients of information rather than active agents striving to understand what they are learning.

Knowledge

Knowledge Participation Discussions Writing

What are Active Study Strategies?

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Highlighting or Underlining : Merely marking text with highlighters or underlining without actively processing or synthesizing the information. While these methods may draw attention to key points, they do not necessarily promote understanding or retention. What are the active learning strategies?

Study

Study Activities Critical Thinking Active Learning

Strategies for Teaching Complex Subjects in Large Hybrid Classrooms Across Campus: Bridging Engagement and Equity Across Modalities

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

In a large classroom, instructors often face challenges in creating personal connections with students, maintaining attention, and ensuring active participation (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Active Learning and Gamification Active learning techniques became invaluable in reinforcing key concepts.

Teaching

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary

Strategies for Teaching Complex Subjects in Large Hybrid Classrooms Across Campus: Bridging Engagement and Equity Across Modalities

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

In a large classroom, instructors often face challenges in creating personal connections with students, maintaining attention, and ensuring active participation (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Active Learning and Gamification Active learning techniques became invaluable in reinforcing key concepts.

Teaching

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary

Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities including Neurodivergent Learners

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

Several strategies can help learners participate more fully in the learning environment, including collaborative learning, visual/spatial supports, and individualized instruction. Furthermore, collaborative learning can greatly benefit neurodiverse learners.

Disabilities

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities

Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities including Neurodivergent Learners

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

Several strategies can help learners participate more fully in the learning environment, including collaborative learning, visual/spatial supports, and individualized instruction. Furthermore, collaborative learning can greatly benefit neurodiverse learners.

Disabilities

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities

Co-Creating the Classroom: Collaborative Ground Rules for Engaged Learning

Faculty Focus

MAY 13, 2025

Furthermore, teaching should aim to prepare students for active civic engagement. Increasingly, instructors report difficulty maintaining students attention, citing ever-present distractions like smartphones, laptops, and a relentless stream of digital notifications. Yet these are not the only factors at play.

Syllabus

Syllabus Instructors Learning Confidentiality

Co-Creating the Classroom: Collaborative Ground Rules for Engaged Learning

Faculty Focus

MAY 13, 2025

Furthermore, teaching should aim to prepare students for active civic engagement. Increasingly, instructors report difficulty maintaining students attention, citing ever-present distractions like smartphones, laptops, and a relentless stream of digital notifications. Yet these are not the only factors at play.

Syllabus

Syllabus Instructors Learning Confidentiality

17 Tweaks That Make a Big Difference in Group Work

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Giving Directions How students engage in active learning usually has steps or at a minimum some guidance. When you have gone through the time and effort to coordinate a quality collaborative learning task, resist the natural tendency to slip into a teacher-directed mode every time a student seeks your help.

Group work

Group work Assignments Questions Communication

Top 17 Study Tips for Online Learning

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 23, 2025

Use Active Learning, Not Passive Consumption Watching lectures or reading textbooks might feel productive, but its passive. Real learning happens when the student engages with the material. Active learning is one of the good study habits that every student enrolled in K12 online education must develop.

Study

Study Online Learning Learning Motivation

Supporting Non-Major Biology Students: Making the Classroom YOUnique

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Active learning strategies, where students actively engage in the learning process, promote participation and retention (Freeman et al. These include group discussions, hands-on experiments, problem-solving activities, and creative assessments that encourage critical thinking and peer collaboration.

Interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation

Supporting Non-Major Biology Students: Making the Classroom YOUnique

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Active learning strategies, where students actively engage in the learning process, promote participation and retention (Freeman et al. These include group discussions, hands-on experiments, problem-solving activities, and creative assessments that encourage critical thinking and peer collaboration.

Interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation

Teaching Vanguard

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

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

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Active Learning Strategies for Students

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

Would You Rather: Making Meaning

What are Active Study Strategies?

Strategies for Teaching Complex Subjects in Large Hybrid Classrooms Across Campus: Bridging Engagement and Equity Across Modalities

Strategies for Teaching Complex Subjects in Large Hybrid Classrooms Across Campus: Bridging Engagement and Equity Across Modalities

Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities including Neurodivergent Learners

Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities including Neurodivergent Learners

Co-Creating the Classroom: Collaborative Ground Rules for Engaged Learning

Co-Creating the Classroom: Collaborative Ground Rules for Engaged Learning

17 Tweaks That Make a Big Difference in Group Work

Top 17 Study Tips for Online Learning

Supporting Non-Major Biology Students: Making the Classroom YOUnique

Supporting Non-Major Biology Students: Making the Classroom YOUnique

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