As technology continues to play a pivotal role in classrooms, many schools are turning to active learning environments to effectively use technology to help engage students in learning. Join us on ...

Have you recently visited a coffee bistro, restaurant or public library and noticed the comfortable settings being created to attract customers? What used to be places for quick stops are now becoming ...

Active Learning Classrooms (ALC) are student-centered spaces that support engagement, group collaborations and instructor-student interaction. The technology and seating arrangements in these rooms is ...

Technology’s pivotal role in education can’t be denied, and it will remain a constant in classrooms. Many schools are turning to active learning environments to effectively use technology to help ...

While hundreds of peer-reviewed studies have concluded that students taught in an active learning environment are significantly more likely to outperform peers who are in classes taught more ...

Active learning is not a new concept. Though coined by Bonwell and Eisen (1991), aspects of active learning can be found in studies by Piaget, Vygotsky, and Dewey*. Active Learning is a broad set of ...

Since William G. Jackson’s gift, we have been exploring options for a larger bring-your-own device (BYOD) active learning classroom. With help from Information Technology, the advice of a diverse ...

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...

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College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

At college and university classrooms nationwide a shift is afoot, with innovative teaching arrangements and approaches creating more active learning environments—and fostering collaborations between ...

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