For students to gain the most out of education, they need to form long-term memories from experiences gained through active learning. The greatest distinction between active learning and traditional approaches involves the types of tasks and problems the students are challenged to solve. Active learning activities should be structured with student pairs to groups no larger than four participants, with one person in each group as the scribe or recorder and all others prepared to share ideas with their group members. There are variations of active learning formats such as Think-Pair-Share, Concept Test, and Think-Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS). In addition, there are several different approaches to get students to learn. Cooperative learning, collaborative learning, peer learning, and problem-based learning are a few of the formats educators could utilize in an engineering graphics course.