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Active Learning Strategies for Students

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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.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

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SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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He argues that the traditional lecture method for teaching physics and other STEM fields has been proven ineffective, and that shifts to more active methods can greatly improve learning outcomes to make sure the next generation of researchers can make the next Nobel-worthy breakthroughs. And this isn't just flippant.

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Five (Easy-to-Implement) Ways Video Can Have a Powerful Impact on Teaching and Learning

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The days of standing in front of the classroom and “lecturing” are long gone. Video is also proving to have solid results when it comes to learning outcomes—from higher test scores to increased engagement with learning materials to increased comprehension.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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The next big move came when instructional designers, as part of their skillset, turned to digital authoring systems, software introduced to stimulate engagement, encouraging virtual students to interface actively with digital materials, often by tapping at a keyboard or touching the screen as in a video game.

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How Automated Speech Recognition Could Change Studying Forever

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And as I began to research this issue, I discovered that most of the technology investment in educational institutions really doesn’t impact learning engagement for learning outcomes. And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. Source: Echo360.

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Nontraditional but More Collaborative: Edtech Trends for 2019

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The convergence of these challenges is making it much harder for faculty to engage students in traditional lecture-style classes. Instructors are innovating, and technology could serve to drive cross-departmentally and cross-institutional sharing of best practices, which, in turn, could fuel massive improvements in learning outcomes.