eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Metacognitive Strategies : Monitoring one’s own learning process, setting goals, and regulating learning enhances self-awareness and fosters academic autonomy. Interactive Lectures : Incorporating interactive activities like polls, quizzes, or discussions into lectures keeps students engaged and reinforces key concepts.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

First, all students, regardless of their SES (socio-economic status) standing, showed significantly higher levels of retained learning than the control group which used the time-honored lectures, basic active learning techniques, and case approaches.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

This strategy promotes active participation, collaboration, and peer learning. Problem-Based Learning (PBL): PBL tasks students with solving real-world problems or case studies, requiring them to apply knowledge and critical thinking skills to develop solutions.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Interactive Lectures : Teachers intersperse lectures with interactive activities like polls, quizzes, or discussions to keep students engaged and reinforce key concepts. Types of active learning methods encompass a variety of engaging instructional approaches designed to promote student participation and deeper understanding.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

During that decade, McMaster University pioneered the problem-based learning approach with its medical students. “We We think they’re two sides of the same coin,” Larmer says of project- and problem-based learning.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In addition to mid-semester check-in techniques, I try to incorporate at least one low stake active learning strategy instead of direct teaching. We know that it’s important to incorporate small changes in our teaching, such as periodically adding a learning activity in place of a brief lecture.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

There are concrete benefits to engaging students in experiential learning inside the classroom: It enables us to “flip” the classroom, which prevents students from passively receiving material in class. Some examples of experiential learning inside the classroom include role play, debate, problem-based learning, and project-based learning.

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