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Active Learning LibraryCollection of active learning techniques that can be searched by a variety of filters, such as difficulty, prep time required, and class size.
Books on Active Learning
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lectern: Active Learning Strategies to Engage First-Year Students
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Call Number: LB2331.S82 2003An essential tool for every instructor, this book is based on the premise that many of today's students learn best by interacting and by doing. Incorporating affective, behavioral, and cognitive goals, these exercises shift the teacher's role from soloist or center-stage performer to conductor, orchestrating and synthesizing a classroom experience where students actively participate and learn. -
53 Interesting Things to Do in Your Lectures: Tips and Strategies for Really Effective Lectures and Presentations
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Call Number: LB1027 .G72 2012This resource offers a variety of strategies for enhancing lectures, covering topics such as structuring the lecturing process, improving student note-taking, summarizing content effectively, and creating connections between lectures. It also emphasizes keeping students engaged, promoting active learning, using resources effectively, and monitoring students' learning during lectures. -
Active Learning: A Practical Guide for College Faculty
Call Number: LB1027.23 .M34 2017Offers everyday guidance for implementing and improving active learning in the college classroom. -
Active Learning Strategies in Higher Education
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Call Number: eBook (click title)This book explores best practices for effective active learning in higher education. Experienced instructors from different disciplines and countries share their experiences and reflect on best practices, as well as on the theoretical underpinnings of active learning. -
Best Practices in Engaging Online Learners Through Active and Experiential Learning Strategies
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Call Number: LB1044.87 .B83 2017A practical guide for all instructors and instructional designers working in online or blended learning environments who want to provide a supportive, engaging, and interactive learner experience. -
Creating Engaging Discussions: Strategies for "Avoiding Crickets" in Any Size Classroom and Online
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Call Number: LB1032 .C69 2018This book injects new life into discussion as an active-learning tool by demonstrating that to be effective, discussions must be tethered to course learning outcomes and rigorously assessed. -
The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking
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Call Number: eBook (click title)This guide offers fifty techniques to engage students, boost creativity, and improve group dynamics in various settings, including the classroom. Each method includes clear instructions for effective implementation and tips for success. -
Discussion in the College Classroom: Getting Your Students Engaged and Participating in Person and Online
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Call Number: LB2331.H68 2015 & eBook (click title)This guide provides research-backed techniques to facilitate productive, focused discussions that align with learning goals and enhance student outcomes. -
Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
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Call Number: PE1404 .B35 2021In this book, the author integrates the critical thinking movement with the writing-across-the-curriculum movement to create a practical nuts-and-bolts guide to designing interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities. -
A Guide to Teaching in the Active Learning Classroom: History, Research, and Practice
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Call Number: eBook (click title)Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) offer a dynamic environment but require faculty to adapt to their unique features, such as the lack of a central focal point. This book provides practical, research-based strategies to help instructors effectively utilize ALCs and improve student engagement and learning outcomes. -
Hitting Pause: 65 Lecture Breaks to Refresh and Reinforce Learning
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Call Number: LB2393 .R53 2018Pauses constitute a simple technique for enlivening and enhancing the effectiveness of lectures, or indeed of any form of instruction, whether a presentation or in an experiential setting. This book presents the evidence and rationale for breaking up lectures into shorter segments by using pauses to focus attention, reinforce key points, and review learning. -
The New College Classroom
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Call Number: LB1027.23 .D386 2022 & eBook (click title)College still looks like it did a century ago, with instructors delivering lectures to silent halls of students. Yet the science of education shows unambiguously that active learning is more effective. The New Classroom details the evidence and offers hands-on guidance for teachers in every discipline and institution, so that students can excel.
