Active learning - Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

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?

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Active learning as an ethical issue

Is active learning a pedagogical choice or an ethical imperative? (From 2015.)

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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.

Academia

When courage isn't enough

Sometimes good teaching takes more than just courage.

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.

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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.

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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.