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Direct linkChristiane Reilly; Thomas C. Reeves – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This design-based research (DBR) study had both local and general goals. Its local goal was to increase active learning in the online courses offered at a large research university in the midwestern United States. Its larger goal was to define active learning design principles for online courses in general, so that they might be used to improve…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Instructional Design, Research Methodology, Educational Research
Cowan, John – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2019
This article presents the case for the use of the 'think-aloud protocol' by teachers who engage in action-research as a source of constructive information about their students' cognitive learning processes. This method calls upon learners to talk their thoughts out aloud, during engagement in some learning activity regarding which the researching…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Educational Research, Action Research, Learning Processes
Chamberlain, John Martyn; D'Artrey, Meriel; Rowe, Deborah-Anne – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2011
This article details the findings of research into the academic teaching staff experience of peer observation of their teaching practice. Peer observation is commonly used as a tool to enhance a teacher's continuing professional development. Research participants acknowledged its ability to help develop their teaching practice, but they also…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Observation, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development
Wang, Ting; Li, Linda Y. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2011
Despite increasing attention to the challenges of supervising international doctoral students, little research has been conducted to examine supervisory feedback practice with international students and its impact on the thesis writing process. This exploratory qualitative study seeks to fill the gap and contribute to understanding the feedback…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Educational Research, Supervision, Writing Processes
Irvine, Naomi; Carmichael, Patrick – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2009
Participants with teaching and research experience across eight disciplinary areas were introduced to the idea of "threshold concepts" and were then invited to identify potential threshold concepts in their own disciplines through small-scale research activities. Participants conceptualized their involvement in different ways: for some it provided…
Descriptors: English Literature, Educational Research, Reflection, Faculty Development
Gossman, Peter; Stewart, Terry; Jaspers, Marlene; Chapman, Bruce – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2007
This article reports on a small-scale research project (n = 56) that investigated student educational gain. For the purposes of this study, gain is defined as an increase in the score that students obtain for pre/post intervention tests. Students received authentic exposure to the process via a web-delivered problem-based scenario. The students…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Control Groups, Student Evaluation
