Active learning How do you measure active learning? And should you? If you could measure how much active learning really takes place at your university, would you? How would you do it? And what would you do with the results?
Learning spaces What it's like to teach in an active learning classroom After years of doing research and training on active learning classrooms, I've finally been able to teach in one. Here's what I've learned.
Active learning A new framework for active learning A new paper proposes an updated definition of active learning and an "ecosystem" framework to go along with it.
Active learning Why we should embrace active learning Three good and three bad reasons to embrace active learning, with reflections on a changing world.
Higher Education Is traditional higher education in trouble from online course providers? I just completed the much-hyped Project Management certification from Google and Coursera. How much trouble is traditional higher education in?
Academia Three more things that the workload dilemma might really be about Here's three more things that we might actually be talking about, when we talk about "workload".
Active learning My home teaching software and workflows A rundown of the software and workflows I use for online teaching.
Active learning My home teaching studio setup (and why it's so cheap) You don't need to spend $21,000 to have an excellent home teaching studio if you shift the focus to active learning.
Academia Blue pants on Tuesday How can we in higher education push greater adoption of active learning without steamrolling academic freedom?
Active learning Active learning as an ethical issue Is active learning a pedagogical choice or an ethical imperative? (From 2015.)
Active learning How not to do active learning A short list of 25 ways to teach using active learning but without the empathy.
Academia Empathy in teaching Empathy is possibly the most important facet of good teaching and the weakest link in current college teaching practice.
Learning spaces Lessons about socially-distanced active learning from a classroom redesign A study on the use of bolt-down swivel chairs in active learning holds some lessons about teaching during Covid-19.
Research Retrieval practice: Better to space it out, or keep it together? We look at a research study on retrieval practice and whether it's better to spread it out or not.
Teaching Peer instruction in a staggered hybrid setting: Lessons learned An update on how my use of peer instruction is going in staggered hybrid classes.
Academia Transitioning into the Fall: An interview (part 2) Part 2 of an interview I did about Fall 2020 semester -- focusing this time on what's been hard and what's been good.
Flipped learning How much research has been done on flipped learning? Update for 2020 An update on the number of published research articles on flipped learning from 2019, with thoughts about next year.
Teaching Is it active learning? How do we tell whether something students do is really active learning or not? Look back at the definition.
Active learning Three questions to ask about designing active learning tasks Developing active learning tasks for students takes more than just changing the instructions on a lecture example. Ask three questions first.
Active learning Three thoughts on active learning and self-teaching "The teacher isn't teaching and I'm having to teach myself the material" has three embedded misconceptions that need to be addressed.
Teaching Hospitals and the humanity of students Some lessons on teaching learned while recovering from open-heart surgery.
Teaching Three teaching habits that support active learning Teaching is behavior and behavior is founded on habits. How can teachers build good teaching habits for active learning?
Learning spaces How can a big lecture class become small and active? A look at a study of implementing active learning in a big lecture class by a clever use of active learning spaces and hybrid course methods.