Active Learning in the Online Environment
Strategies for Implementing Active Learning into a Hybrid Course
Implementing an active learning strategy into a hybrid course requires an evaluation of the overall course goals and objectives. In reviewing these objectives, instructors should consider strategies that encourage student engagement in the mastery of these objectives. At the same time instructors rethink the teaching strategies, they should be thinking about how they want to implement online technology to promote an active learning environment. There are three basic strategies for integrating web-based technology into an active learning course:
Move non-active, narrative portions of the course online.
Some instructors want to devote class time to directed active learning exercises yet have a significant amount of background lecture material or other information they want students to master or have access to. These instructors find it useful to migrate these portions of the course online as text presentations or streaming media.
Supplement classroom work with online interaction.
Some classroom activities lend themselves to being integrated with web-based tools. Collaborative work, groups, communicative activities, can all be easily supplemented with online tools. Certain productive activities (like creating web pages and web-based tutorials) also lend themselves to the online environment.
Create active learning environments online.
Some instructors find it useful to have discreet active learning environments online that students can pursue independently. These can be research-based projects, productive work, group work, communicative activities, and the like.
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