Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning allows students to be engaged and active participants in their own learning by sharing ideas, analyzing problems, and finding solutions to them. The social environment of the group can be enjoyable and exciting for several students compared to independent study or traditional classroom or online lecturing.

Collaborative Learning 113

Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 113

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning allows students to be engaged and active participants in their own learning by sharing ideas, analyzing problems, and finding solutions to them. The social environment of the group can be enjoyable and exciting for several students compared to independent study or traditional classroom or online lecturing.

Collaborative Learning 102

Collaborative Learning Education Learning Students 102

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

A genuine workshop aims to empower the participants such that they leave with new ideas and skills. The word workshop implies that work will be done by the participants. This means the center of attention should be on the students doing work, not on the expert talking about their expertise. Principle 5: Less is More.

Lecturing 88

Lecturing Participation Discussions Group work 88

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

A genuine workshop aims to empower the participants such that they leave with new ideas and skills. The word workshop implies that work will be done by the participants. This means the center of attention should be on the students doing work, not on the expert talking about their expertise. Principle 5: Less is More.

Lecturing 82

Lecturing Participation Discussions Group work 82

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

They’re participating in student government. This comes back to 20 years of faculty development where basically we know that, if a professor teaches an online course, they have to go through 80 hours of training to learn to teach online. They’re in our libraries, in our learning spaces and they’re working together in many cases.

Lecturing 123

Lecturing Students Faculty Development Collaborative Learning 123

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

UNC Charlotte, for example, has the Active Learning Academy, which brings in speakers and offers internal education opportunities as well as a STEM Academy, which models evidenced-based practices in a fun, informative way and even pays participants a small stipend.

Education 52

Education STEM Active Learning Peer Review 52