Despite the benefits of retrieval practice, students still tend to opt for more passive strategies. Here’s how to embed retrieval in your classroom to show them its power ...

After the students leave, I print the task cards, place one inside each egg, and hide them around the room. On the day of the hunt, students work in small groups and are assigned a specific egg ...

Like many university instructors, Steven Jackson knows his way around a lecture hall. The rows of seating, the balcony above, the lectern centered carefully at the front — all part of the traditional ...

Johnson & Wales University has redesigned its Core Curriculum. General education classes will now be more hands-on and relevant to students across all majors. The overhaul comes more than a decade ...

If you’ve ever finished an online lecture and realized you barely remember what was covered, you’ve experienced the difference between active vs. passive learning. In virtual classrooms, it’s easy to ...

Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building ...

Most teachers (myself included) don’t want to rely on lectures and worksheets to do our jobs. The problem is that it’s time-intensive and difficult to plan for lots and lots of active learning, which ...

1. Demonstrate that scientific knowledge applies across multiple scales of size and/or time. Climate impacts, local vs global. Climate change timescales, long term (geologic timescale) to short term ...

Abstract: An important question in data-driven control is how to obtain an informative dataset. In this work, we consider the problem of effective data acquisition of an unknown linear system with ...

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 ...