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Elizabeth E Charles
May 1, 2020 4:45 PM
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Learning remotely and online can present new challenges, or just put a strain on your existing learning strategies. You might be finding that you’re being provided with a lot of learning materials such as powerpoint slides, video, readings or handouts. What do you do with all this material, and how can you make sure you’re learning effectively rather than just staring at your screen, with nothing really going in?
Listen to Helen, one of our tutors, suggesting a few strategies to ensure that you’re actively engaging with learning materials and getting the most out of them.
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Elizabeth E Charles
June 9, 2019 11:27 AM
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Students in non-arts disciplines generally are not taught to read and interpret visual images in the same way that those in the arts are taught. As a result, students in non-arts disciplines are often uncertain how to incorporate visual primary sources into their research. Using several of the frames outlined in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education as an overarching structure, as well as the pedagogical model outlined in TeachArchives.org that focuses on active learning techniques, the authors outline their instructional techniques for teaching students to work with, and even interrogate, visual resources in a non-arts-based classroom.
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Elizabeth E Charles
October 4, 2018 4:08 PM
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Those who teach in the health disciplines expect their students to retain and apply every iota of learned material. However, many students come to us having achieved academic success by memorizing the content, regurgitating that information onto an exam, and promptly forgetting a good portion of it. In health, as well as other disciplines where new material builds upon the material from the previous semesters, it is critical for students to retain what they learn throughout their coursework and as they begin their careers as a nurse, engineer, elementary teacher, etc.
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 24, 2018 3:29 PM
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A 2015 survey of Faculty Focus readers found that the number one barrier preventing faculty from implementing the flipped classroom model and other active learning experiences into their courses is TIME. Faculty reported they don’t have time to plan extra learner-centered activities, due to increasing responsibilities, and they don’t have time to implement the activities in class because there’s too much content to cover.
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 24, 2018 3:19 PM
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We often hear of the importance of collaborative learning but through personal observation and through instructor-student dialogue over the years, it seems the concept is often lost on instructors at the university level. While effective collaborative learning can take some effort on the part of instructors and students, there are simple steps that can be applied that will likely generate positive results in relatively little time. Collaborative learning and growing is synonymous with commons, collective, interactive, and shared spaces. Shared spaces in a physical capacity are foundational elements in establishing collaborative learning. Collaborative learning can also be seen as a data or information commons whereby multiple students are learning together, and sharing their knowledge, points of view, what they know and how, how they reached those perspectives, and what pathways can be pursued as a result of what another student thinks and why.
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Elizabeth E Charles
December 13, 2017 4:38 PM
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I have mostly seen active learning used in opposition to passively listening to lectures or passively rereading a text, and more broadly, in opposition to any kind of sitting still. In Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom (1991), Charles Bonwell and James Eison state that “students must do more than just listen,” and they define active learning as “instructional activities involving students in doing things and thinking about what they are doing.”1
Historically, a learner’s educational opportunities have been limited by the resources found within the walls of a school. Technology-enabled learning allows learners to tap resources and expertise anywhere in the world, starting with their own communities.
Via Nik Peachey
Either you are for lecturing (and against active learning) or you’re for active learning (and against lecturing). Is there a viable place in the middle?
Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 29, 2016 1:51 PM
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After completing the assigned reading, students take a short online quiz that must be completed before class. Their answers help guide that day's lesson.
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Elizabeth E Charles
February 17, 2016 9:58 AM
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What is Active Learning? Active learning is about engaging students in more activities than just listening. It places an emphasis of responsibility onto the learners as they must actively engage with the process for it to be a success, they are no longer sitting and waiting for us to fill their heads with knowledge. Within…
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Elizabeth E Charles
July 1, 2015 2:09 PM
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Wondering how you can stimulate active and collaborative learning in eLearning space? Check how to build active and collaborative eLearning space.
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Elizabeth E Charles
March 4, 2015 2:03 PM
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An active learning approach produces the same student learning outcomes in both flipped and nonflipped classrooms, according to new research from Brigham Young University.
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Elizabeth E Charles
January 28, 2015 3:49 PM
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Want to build interactive elearning? Consider this first: include visual design, onscreen interactions, and interactive & relevant decisions-making.
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Elizabeth E Charles
February 6, 2019 4:56 PM
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Freely available, open education resources provide opportunities for college students to strengthen their critical thinking and quantitative literacy skills using sophisticated active-learning strategies. In a 2017 Wakefield market research survey, investigators found 85 percent of college students elected not to buy one or more required hard copy course textbooks. Students also are turning more frequently to their mobile devices to complete their coursework. Their reasons included the high price of textbooks and the fact that they did not value textbooks as learning tools. Instead, students are enticed by online course content, which can be accessed anywhere on campuses equipped with modern network infrastructures.
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Elizabeth E Charles
June 10, 2018 1:40 PM
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Getting faculty on board with active learning is key to improving student outcomes; as such, incorporating these learning strategies requires buy-in from both instructors and students. Although active learning is any instructional method that engages students, it actually goes beyond engagement and requires students to perform meaningful learning activities and think about what they are doing.1 But for faculty, the time and preparation needed to create and deliver these activities can be obstacles.
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 19, 2018 3:21 PM
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When it comes to improving outcomes in the digital age, efficacy matters more than ever. Billions of dollars are spent across the world on technology with the hopes that it will lead to better results. Tom Murray and I shared this thought in Learning Transformed: Educational technology is not a silver bullet. Yet year after year, districts purchase large quantities of devices, deploy them on a large scale, and are left hoping the technology will have an impact. Quite often, they’re left wondering why there was no change in student engagement or achievement after large financial investments in devices. Today’s devices are powerful tools. At the cost of only a few hundred dollars, it’s almost possible to get more technological capacity than was required to put people on the moon.
Overview: This post compiles two previous blogs from hastac.org (Cathy Davidson) (originally published in June 2015 and October 2017) and concludes with a bibliography of scholarship on active learning (or "radical pedagogy").
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 30, 2017 4:01 AM
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As I speak at educator conventions across the country, I have found the chorus of voices around the “flipped classroom” to be reaching a crescendo. Indeed, it seems that to have a proposal accepted for presentation, the educator is advised to include some derivative of the word “flip” in the session title (Hint: Using “flippin” without the “g” is apparently more cool and increases the likelihood of your proposal acceptance by 50%--note example above).
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Elizabeth E Charles
October 27, 2016 5:50 AM
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Today’s digital world is littered with drill and kill technology, much of it no different than a digital version of the worksheets of years past. Simply digitizing past practice serves little instructional purpose and ultimately leads to low levels of learning. These types of practices have lead to a number of studies that have indicated that purchasing more technology does not increase student learning. While these findings should be obvious, shifting the instructional pedagogy remains the key, and at the same time, a difficult task.
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Elizabeth E Charles
June 18, 2016 9:47 AM
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In this ongoing series focused on flipped and active-learning classrooms, we’re taking a deeper look into how to create successful learning experiences for students. We’ve examined how to encourage students to complete pre-class work, how to hold students accountable for pre-class work, and how to connect pre-class work to in-class activities. Now let’s focus on the challenge of managing the in-person learning environment.
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 23, 2016 9:13 AM
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Current research describes the benefits of active learning approaches. Clickers, or student response systems, are a technology used to promote active learning.
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Elizabeth E Charles
January 21, 2016 6:27 AM
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For many things in life we learn by doing, yet this is often missing in online and offline learning. Some even think is it not possible. It is of course possible, in many ways. The entire flight simulation market had been around for decades and clearly delivers high-end performance skills. Soft skills can be taught, and many other domains, even abstract knowledge, benefit from placing the learner in a real context and asking them to DO something, make decisions, choose a tool, ask a question, apply a formula. Learning through scenarios is a well-developed technique.
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Elizabeth E Charles
April 16, 2015 8:56 AM
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According to Perry Samson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at University of Michigan, if your goal is to improve student outcomes, employ active learning techniques.
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Elizabeth E Charles
from Education and Tech Tools
February 27, 2015 3:00 PM
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Can Experiential Learning be applied to eLearning? How Experiential Learning Works? What are the two schools of experiential learning? Read on!!!
Via Becky Roehrs
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