Effects of an Active Learning Environment: Teaching Innovations at a Research I Institution

2004 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria T. Oliver-Hoyo ◽  
DeeDee Allen ◽  
William F. Hunt ◽  
Joy Hutson ◽  
Angela Pitts
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Research I Institution

scholarly journals Enhanced student perceptions of learning and performance using concept-point-recovery teaching sessions: a mixed-method approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Jin Cho ◽  
Michael R. Melloch ◽  
Chantal Levesque-Bristol
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Control Group ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Active learning pedagogy has recently received a great deal of attention, and many universities have attempted to create student-centered learning environments to improve students’ academic success. The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of concept-point-recovery (CPR) teaching sessions as an active learning strategy on students’ perceptions of the learning environment, motivation, and academic learning outcomes in an electrical engineering course. To investigate the effectiveness of CPR sessions, students’ perceptions of learning and their performance were compared to those of students in a control classroom. Finally, students’ written comments on the course and instructor were explored in further analysis. Results The quantitative findings revealed that there was a significant change in students’ perceptions of learning after the CPR teaching sessions, and there was an increase in students’ perceptions and learning outcomes compared with those of the control group. In addition, the qualitative findings from students’ written feedback demonstrated that students felt that the instructor cared about students’ learning and success and that they had a positive learning environment. Conclusions CPR teaching sessions can be an alternative model for instructors to connect with students and create supportive environments to help students achieve academic success, which in turn promotes the satisfaction of students’ basic psychological needs and self-determined motivation. Therefore, increasing students’ engagement in their learning processes and making connections with students through CPR teaching sessions can facilitate improvements in students’ motivation and academic success. How this new active learning technique can be applied to higher education is discussed.

THE NATURE-BASED SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL APPROACH AND SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILD: A NECESSARY RELATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Svetlana Angelova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Child ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Elementary School Child ◽  
Modern Vision ◽  
Primary School Age ◽  
Emotional Approach

The article presents the Nature-based socio-emotional approach and science education for primary school child as a necessary relation on two levels. At the conceptual level the approach is analysed through the prism of the cumulative effects of nature and society to the cognitive and socio-emotional development of the child’s personality: in primary school age cognitive and emotional-volitional mental processes are socially predetermined and have the essence of a result. At the applied level, the Nature-based socio-emotional approach is analysed through active learning in nature as an authentic learning environment – the focus is on the acquisition of knowledge, the formation of cognitive and socio-emotional skills to overcome consumer culture and sustainable development of nature. In this regard, the effects of active learning are viewed in sync with the learning environment, which collectively generate added value to learning and become a kind of „key“ to creating a modern vision of science education in primary school today .

Implementing an Active Learning Environment To Influence Students’ Motivation in Biochemistry

2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 1020-1026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila Aparecida Tolentino Cicuto ◽  
Bayardo Baptista Torres
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Environment

Practical and Case-Based Methods in Teaching and Learning

2022 ◽  
pp. 148-179
Author(s):  
Laura Elizabeth Hand
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
The Us ◽  
Case Based Learning ◽  
Environmental Adaptability ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Case Based

This chapter (re)introduces practical learning methods to the reader. Focusing on multimodality, authenticity, engagement, and environmental adaptability, this chapter breaks down practicality in a rapidly changing learning environment and provides a brief overview of three practical approaches. Combining industry-developed knowledge of agile strategies with experiential knowledge of frontline, metric-driven innovations in teaching, learning, and eLearning, this chapter also showcases blueprints for establishing a sustainable foundation for the growing architecture of eLearning in the US and internationally. The chapter is designed to model the chapter's content for the reader, actively involving readers across modalities in the processes of refining an understanding of practical methods and approaches, including (1) case-based learning, (2) active learning, and (3) communicative learning (as a corollary to communicative language teaching).

Preparing students to participate in an active learning environment.

1996 ◽  
Vol 270 (6) ◽  
pp. S69 ◽  
Author(s):  
H I Modell
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Formal Models ◽  
Passive Learning ◽  
Learner Centered ◽  
School Career ◽  
Traditional Roles

Most students have spent the majority of their school career in passive learning environments in which faculty were disseminators of information, and students were required to memorize information or use specified algorithms to "solve problems." In an active learning environment, students are encouraged to engage in the process of building and testing their own mental models from information that they are acquiring. In such a learner-centered environment, faculty become facilitators of learning, and students become active participants, engaging in a dialogue with their colleagues and with the instructor. To create a successful active learning environment, both faculty and students must make adjustments to what has been their respective "traditional" roles in the classroom. For the instructor who is committed to promoting active learning, the challenge lies in helping students understand the necessity of becoming active colleagues in learning. This process can be facilitated if the curriculum includes exercises to direct students' attention to a number of issues that impact their learning. This paper describes four such exercises designed to help students form appropriate course expectations, recognize the need for seeking clarification when communicating, recognize the role of personal experience in building mental models, and become familiar with study aids for building formal models.

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