Active Learning Corner - What is Active Learning?

What is Active Learning?

Active learning is a student-centred approach that encourages using a variety of learning activities, instructional methods and strategies that enhance learners’ engagement and activate their thinking while learning (Hung, 2015; Kusumoto, 2018). Active learning has also been described as “a process whereby students engage in activities, such as reading, writing, discussion, or problem solving that promote analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of class content” ("Curriculum resources," 2017). Active learning-based pedagogy differs from the traditional lecturing-based pedagogy where teachers are seen as knowledge transmitters and students are viewed as passive recipients of teachers' knowledge. In active learning-based pedagogy, enhancing student engagement and creating meaningful learning experiences are key elements (Prince, 2004). As stated by Kane (2004), while students have a participatory and active role in an active learning-based pedagogy, teachers become learning facilitators. Thus, traditional roles attributed to students and teachers are transformed in active learning-based environments. Through converting teacher-centred classrooms into student-centred ones, students are encouraged to engage in self-directed learning as well as collaborative and cooperative learning project-based tasks.
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Sources:
Curriculum resources. (2017, July 27). Retrieved from https://faculty.medicine.iu.edu/let-us-help/teaching-resources/new-curriculum-resources/
Hung, H. T. (2015). Flipping the classroom for English language learners to foster active learning. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 28(1), 81-96. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2014.967701
Kane, L. (2004). Educators, learners and active learning methodologies. International Journal of Lifelong Education, (23)3, 275-286.

Kusumoto, Y. (2018). Enhancing critical thinking through active learning. Language Learning in Higher Education, 8(1), 45-63.

Prince, M. (2004). Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research. Journal of Engineering Education, 93(3), 223–231. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2004.tb00809.x

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