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Mikkel Godsk; Karen Louise Møller – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
There is a widespread agenda of improving teaching and learning in higher education by engaging students with educational technology. Based on a large-scale literature review, the article presents 61 specific, research-based recommendations for realising the engagement potential of eight types of educational technologies in higher education. These…
Descriptors: College Students, Learner Engagement, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Seena Mathew – American Biology Teacher, 2025
Knowledge of scientific principles and practices is vital to creating informed citizens. At its core, science helps create citizens who question the why and how of things, while also increasing knowledge of the world and beyond. Humans by nature are curious and thrive when they are engaged in learning that relates to real-world situations relevant…
Descriptors: Biology, Art, Interdisciplinary Approach, College Science
Wahyuddin; Maharida; Muhammad Awal Nur – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2025
This research analyzed the effect of learning management on learning activities both directly and through moderating learning readiness variables. This research was an ex-post facto type of quantitative research carried out at the Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar. The research variables consist of exogenous variables, namely learning management,…
Descriptors: Learning Management Systems, Learning Activities, Learning Readiness, College Students
Suzanne Dorée; Jennifer Quinn – PRIMUS, 2024
This paper is a practical how-to guide to help you start using active learning or to have greater success and more fun with it. We categorize active learning techniques as Think, Pair, Share, Composite, Group, Move, or Lead and discuss how to implement activities in each category, along with advice on creating engaging, effective, and equitable…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Sequential Approach
Todini, Luca; Menchetti, Laura – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
Active learning and practices are strongly encouraged or made mandatory by local, national, and European organizations. Therefore, we set up an interactive practical classroom, engaging all of the attending students of the year (n = 47). Each student was assigned a physiological role (marked on a cardboard sign) in the following events:…
Descriptors: Interaction, Active Learning, Learning Activities, Human Body
Elise M. Walck-Shannon; Heather D. Barton; Shaina F. Rowell; Douglas L. Chalker; Angela Fink – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
Recently, our course team transformed a large-enrollment introductory genetics course from being predominantly lecture based to active learning based. During class sessions, students engaged in problem solving, which occurs when a student attempts to solve a problem without knowing the path to complete it. We designed class activities…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Genetics, Learning Activities, Inquiry
Maria Vetleseter Bøe; Anders Lauvland; Ellen Karoline Henriksen – Science Education, 2025
Supporting student participation and learning in STEM involves motivating students to engage in the most effective learning activities. In this article, we study how student motivation interacts with learning activities, and we pay special attention to active learning and the Scandinavian context where participation in learning activities is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Physics, Science Education
Wetcher-Hendricks, Debra – Teaching Sociology, 2022
Although students rely on social solidarity in their everyday lives, they generally fail to acknowledge its existence. An active learning class exercise, conducted within approximately 35 minutes, introduces sociology students to Emile Durkheim's concept of solidarity and the distinction between its mechanical and organic forms. Some groups of…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Group Unity, Cooperation, Active Learning
Christiane 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
James Elliott – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2024
This paper discusses the implementation of exemplar essays within an undergraduate first-year diagnostic radiography module to encourage active learning and the development of academic literacies. Nine essays ([approximately]400 words each) were provided over six sessions, using lecturer-guided discussion to explore the academic virtues and…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Writing (Composition), Active Learning, Essays
Reid, Joshua W.; Kirbulut Gunes, Zubeyde Demet; Fateh, Shaghayegh; Fatima, Adan; Macrie-Shuck, Michael; Nennig, Hannah T.; Quintanilla, Fabrizzio; States, Nicole E.; Syed, Ahmad; Cole, Renee; Rushton, Gregory T.; Shah, Lisa; Talanquer, Vicente – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022
Several studies have highlighted the positive effects that active learning may have on student engagement and performance. However, the influence of active learning strategies is mediated by several factors, including the nature of the learning environment and the cognitive level of in-class tasks. These factors can affect different dimensions of…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Cooperative Learning, Learning Activities, Undergraduate Students
Cristian Pliscoff; Pablo Sanabria-Pulido – Teaching Public Administration, 2025
How can Latin American students learn more effectively how different governments address similar public problems? This region shares similarities in terms of culture and history. However, Latin American students study only their public policies and public administration based on the notion that each administrative system has its own…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration Education, Undergraduate Students, Learning Experience
Andrew Gilbert; Jennifer Suh; Fahima Choudhry – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
This paper details an integrated inquiry-based mathematics and science method course for preservice teachers designed around STEM problem-based learning. It documents how problem-based learning (PBL) activities supported PSTs' envisioning of equitable approaches for diverse children. The overarching research question was: "How did preservice…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Preservice Teachers, Equal Education, Methods Courses
Garces, Sebastian; Vieira, Camilo; Ravai, Guity; Magana, Alejandra J. – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Worked examples can help novice learners develop early schemata from an expert's solution to a problem. Nonetheless, the worked examples themselves are no guarantee that students will explore these experts' solutions effectively. This study explores two different approaches to supporting engineering technology students' learning in an…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Active Learning, Programming, Engineering Education
Donald A. Saucier; Ashley A. Schiffer; Tucker L. Jones – Teaching of Psychology, 2024
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic made it difficult to proctor exams after the forced transition to remote teaching and learning. Objective: We evaluated students' experiences creating and answering their own exam items in an upper-level psychology course during the transition to remote teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method:…
Descriptors: College Students, Psychology, COVID-19, Pandemics