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

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We started with guidance from Jean Piaget’s Constructivist Learning Theory, “a process of constructing knowledge based on experience which embraced activelearning modalities as viable examples of the theory.In This step is essential in all forms of active learning, especially in the higher order modalities.

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Lessons from an online teacher: Supporting phenomena-based learning

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With most of the states nationwide moving towards a phenomena-based approach to learning in science, it is especially important that I integrate high-quality online resources into instruction–resources students can relate to, apply prior knowledge to, and that prompt questions about their curiosities.

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

Faculty Focus

We started with guidance from Jean Piaget’s Constructivist Learning Theory, “a process of constructing knowledge based on experience which embraced activelearning modalities as viable examples of the theory.In This step is essential in all forms of active learning, especially in the higher order modalities.