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Briana Craig; Jeremy L. Hsu – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic caused nearly ubiquitous emergency remote teaching in both secondary and post-secondary education. While there has been a plethora of work examining how instructors adjusted classes to incorporate active learning during emergency remote teaching, there has only been minimal work examining how such emergency remote teaching…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Longitudinal Studies, College Students
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Ryan A. Burke; Jamie J. Jirout; Bethany A. Bell – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2025
Cognitive engagement is an essential component in student learning. With the increase of more asynchronous virtual educational tools in classrooms, there is a need to understand how students are engaging with classroom content in these formats. Several studies have examined student and teacher perceptions of cognitive engagement in virtual…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Learner Engagement, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
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Alicia A Dahl; Jessamyn Bowling; Lisa M Krinner; Candace S Brown; George Shaw Jr.; Janaka B Lewis; Trudy Moore-Harrison; Sandra M Clinton; Scott R Gartlan – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2024
The Paper Chase model is a synchronous collaborative approach to manuscript development. Through a structured and team-based design, authors participate in a "marathon" of writing, editing, revising, and submitting their publications within a specified period. This active-learning approach is considered a high-impact practice by engaging…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Collaborative Writing, Synchronous Communication, Teamwork
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Carr, Rodney; Palmer, Stuart; Hagel, Pauline – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2015
This article reports on an investigation into the validity of a widely used scale for measuring the extent to which higher education students employ active learning strategies. The scale is the active learning scale in the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement. This scale is based on the Active and Collaborative Learning scale of the National…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries, Student Surveys
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Kassens-Noor, Eva – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2012
With the rise of Web 2.0, a multitude of new possibilities on how to use these online technologies for active learning has intrigued researchers. While most instructors have used Twitter for in-class discussions, this study explores the teaching practice of Twitter as an active, informal, outside-of-class learning tool. Through a comparative…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Informal Education, Active Learning
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Knight, Jasper – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2010
This article reports a study which sought to evaluate the different learning strategies adopted by students when accessing virtual learning environment (VLE)-hosted resources because, if student achievement corresponds to the learning strategy that is adopted whilst accessing VLE resources, directed tasks can be put in place that will encourage…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Vlachopoulos, Panos; Cowan, John – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2010
Much has been published in recent years about the desirable nature of facilitated interactions in online discussions for educational purposes. However, little has been reported about the roles that tutors actually adopt in real-life learning contexts, how these range between "tutoring", "managing" and "facilitating",…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Online Courses, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education