Teaching Methods

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• Teaching Methods: Active Learning in the Online Environment
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• What is Active Learning?
• Strategies for Implementing Active Learning into a Hybrid Course
• Creating an Active Learning Environment Online
• Additional Resources
• Active Learning Main
• Pedagogy Main

Active Learning in the Online Environment

There has been a movement within higher education to encourage active learning in the classroom. Concurrently, the widespread availability of online technologies offers new tools to aid instructors in implementing active learning techniques in their courses. This part of our web site explores how these online technologies can promote active learning.

What is Active Learning?

Active learning is a general term that describes an approach to teaching, rather than a specific methodology, which engages students in the learning process. More...

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. More...

Creating an Active Learning Environment Online

Not all e-learning environments or assignments are equal in terms of active learning. Assignments where students interact with their instructors and peers online provide a greater degree of active learning than do assignments where students merely view a web page, or click a series of links. More...