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Active Learning

  1. Toolkit: How to Fuel In-Class Engagement

    It’s the stuff of cold sweat nightmares: you’re midway through a semester you swore was going to be different. You came to each…

  2. My Education Began When I Realized We’re Not Taught to Teach

    For Lauren Herckis, an anthropologist at Carnegie Mellon University, change is the only constant in a teaching life. But if you listen and…

  3. How Education Helped This Author Escape a Decade of Abuse

    There's far too much silence around domestic abuse, says bestselling author, speaker and UofT scholarship award winner Samra Zafar

  4. Agile Learning: Collaboration in the Classroom

    Agile learning takes its inspiration from the concept of ‘agile’ as used in the world of technology. Agile teams collaborate on projects…

  5. How to Engage Students in Active Learning

    You’ve created new lesson plans and are experimenting with active learning in the classroom. The problem is, your students are completely…

  6. Quiz: How Much Do You Really Know About Active Learning?

    When it comes to active learning, do you know your Bonwell from your Eison? Are you problem solving, or is everything just at the muddiest…

  7. This Entrepreneur Is Making Kids Fall in Love With Science

    In our recurring series “Academic Admissions” we ask interesting people to tell us about the transformative role education has played in…

  8. How a ‘Slacker’ Ended up Leading a World-Class Theoretical Physics Institute

    In our recurring series “Academic Admissions” we ask interesting people to tell us about the transformative role education has played in…

  9. Why It’s Time to Take a Course in Active Learning

    If time travelers from the far future visit our era and look at the history of education, they’ll see a strange blip. Why are students…

  10. Bloom’s Taxonomy Words Point The Way To Clearer Outcomes

    Armed with the Bloom's taxonomy words, you can plan lesson activities and tasks, decide lecture and course outcomes, and accurately measure…

  11. Why Active Learning Matters Right Now

    Video: UConn’s John Redden on how to make large classrooms more intimate, for students and professors alike

  12. Top Hat in Action: High Expectations from Engineers

    David Cereceda is Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University, near Philadelphia, PA. Here, he shares how…

  13. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy: 3 Ways To Reshape The Pyramid

    Bloom’s Taxonomy is probably the most widespread and enduringly popular model in education. It was created in 1956 by Dr. Benjamin Bloom…

  14. STEM Education Needs to Embrace Active Learning

    Undergraduate STEM education still has a long way to go before it catches up with modern teaching techniques such as student-centered…

  15. Why the First Five Minutes of Class Matter So Much

    There is no need to transform, overhaul or tear down and rebuild the way you teach, according to education expert James Lang. You simply…

  16. Easy Ways to Use Exit Tickets in Class

    Students aimlessly filing out of class two-thirds of the way through? There’s an established way you can let them go out of the door with…

  17. Self-Regulated Learning: 5 Ways to Add it to Your Class

    With so much uncertainty in the job market, self-regulated learning has become an essential skillset for lifelong learning and the ability…

  18. Bloom’s Taxonomy: A History and Why It’s Important

    In this extract from our exclusive e-book, award-winning higher education journalist Philip Preville looks at the history and origin of…

  19. The Secrets of the Cognitive Domain in Bloom’s Taxonomy

    Bloom’s taxonomy, introduced in 1956 and revised in 2001, is one of the most well-known frameworks for classifying educational goals,…

  20. Gamification in Education: 4 Ways To Bring Games To Your Classroom

    What is gamification? Gamification is the use of game design and mechanics to enhance non-game contexts by increasing participation,…