Active Learning

This chapter identifies, explains, and explores a number of strategies and techniques for active learning in the classroom. “Active learning” is a broad term for an approach to teaching that requires students to demonstrate their learning through doing things. Active learning provides an alternative to more passive forms of knowledge acquisition, such as listening to lectures. It shifts the focus from teachers to their students. Active learning offers an alternative to the transmission model of teaching and learning, in which the teacher speaks and demonstrates, while students listen and observe. With active learning, students use and apply information, principles, and concepts to scenarios, situations, and cases, whether actual or fabricated.