Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

To enrich their classroom experience, I align cooperative learning structures with the lesson outcomes, ensuring that 21st-century, real-world content tasks are purposeful and authentic. Unlike group work, cooperative learning activities are highly structured, with defined roles, steps, and time limits.

Assignments 66

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 66

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

To enrich their classroom experience, I align cooperative learning structures with the lesson outcomes, ensuring that 21st-century, real-world content tasks are purposeful and authentic. Unlike group work, cooperative learning activities are highly structured, with defined roles, steps, and time limits.

Assignments 61

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 61

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

Form follows function, as the adage says, but these universities are flipping that script and betting that a more flexible and adaptive form will unlock needed changes in the teaching and learning function. Now, pods for group work circle monitors connected to a video wall. Collaborative Learning Studio at Indiana University.

Active Learning 168

Active Learning Activities Instructors Learning Spaces 168

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2017

The old arrangement strongly suggested—and really only supported—interactions between student and instructor or student and computer. Now, as an active-learning classroom, the default arrangement is for students to work in teams—six team stations for up to 36 students. Conclusion: It’s helping.

Active Learning 145

Active Learning Activities Learning Instructors 145

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. This type of structure is not revolutionary.

Online Learning 158

Online Learning Instructors Learning Quizzes 158

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Specifically, the implementation of in-class clickers and out-of-class quizzing within the context of think-pair-share (TPS) will be the fulcrum of this article’s approach to integrating active learning within a lecture framework. Depending on the classroom setup, group work can also be chaotic and auditorily overwhelming.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98