Think-pair-share (TPS) is the black dress of active learning: a highly flexible tool that can take as little or as much time as needed, and serve a number of pedagogical purposes including ...

Active learning for multi-label classification addresses the challenge of labelling data in situations where each instance may belong to several overlapping categories. This paradigm aims to enhance ...

What is considered an Active Learning Strategy? An active learning strategy is any type of activity during class (face-to-face, online, or outside of class) that engages learners in deep thought about ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

Associate Teaching Professor Cecil Joseph remembers the first time he taught physics in one of UMass Lowell’s Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) classrooms. Instead of facing rows of students ...

When I was first introduced to Team-based Learning (TBL) four years ago, I was skeptical. Not because I loved lecturing (which I see as less than effective), but because of the rigid structure imposed ...

Graduation may signal the end of formal education, but for the most successful organizations, it is only the beginning of relevance. In a world of constant change, smart companies view learning not as ...

My course evaluations are in. They are mostly encouraging — except for the ones that say I should lecture more. “Lessen the amount of reading per week and just lecture more,” reads one comment.