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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Activities Critical Thinking Active Learning Lecturing 247

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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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. Activity-based teaching strategies in K-12 education involve incorporating hands-on, interactive activities into lessons to engage students and enhance learning.

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Active Learning Activities Teaching Critical Thinking 130

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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Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 122

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth. One effective teaching technique within active learning is problem-based learning (PBL).

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Teaching Textbooks Learning Styles Teaching Methods 130

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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Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 98

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

My setting is education, but I believe this would also be beneficial in the sciences or other humanities classes. Obviously larger class sizes would require either larger groups, more opportunities for cogen throughout the semester, or possibly offering cogen dialogues as an extra credit opportunity in very large lecture classes.

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