Enhancing Face-to-Face Teaching Active Learning

Enhancing Face-to-Face Teaching: Active Learning

What is Active Learning?

Active Learning is about students taking responsibility of their own learning.

Rather than just listening to the teacher, they will be actively engaged in learning

activities such as problem-solving , discussions or group work.

‘Let the long and the short of our didactic be to investigate and discover

the means for teachers to teach less, and learners to learn more.’

John Amos Comenius

Why use active learning?

Because students learn more when they participate in the process of learning, whether

it’s through discussion, practice, review, or application.

❶ Active Learning promotes independent,

critical and creative thinking

❷ It encourages effective collaboration

❸ It increases student investment,

motivation and performance

Using technologies to promote active learning

make your lectures more interactive …

…. by flipping them and use class time for active learning.

Also, consider using Personal Response Systems (PRS)

to poll your students and thus engage them in your lecture

Encourage collaborative learning … … with social media, online group conversation/forum

discussions and collaborative writing.

Active Learning at LSE : Student Producing Videos

Want to find out more?

Enhancing face-to-face Teaching: Active Learning

More info online: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lti/

Contact: lti.support@lse.ac.uk

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Check out the training system for our next workshop on giving effective presentations

Involve your students in the production of contents…

… such as a short film, poster, glossary, wiki or e-bricolage.

Use gamification

Technology can be used in many ways in gamification, ranging

from attributing badges in Moodle to using web-based or virtual

simulations.

Make assessment and feedback a two-way process

Use Electronic Management Assessment (EMA) and enable

peer assessment/feedback and self-assessment with Moodle

and other tools.

“All the people we interviewed provided a unique perspective

which has deepened my understanding of the issue.”

“Although I spent a lot of time on the project, I really enjoyed it

as we have real product [...] If you can clearly see that your

hard work leads to an outcome, you will feel very satisfied”

“One of the significant impact of the project is about 'learning

by doing'. The students learn collaboratively from each other.

The students also learned great deal from interviewing native

speakers and using their language skills.”

“I am amazed how well made our students’ videos are. Some

of them reach near-professional standard. This makes me to

think what students can do if they have the total control of the

learning task. Never under-estimate our students’ ability.”