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Direct linkHailikari, Telle; Virtanen, Viivi; Vesalainen, Marjo; Postareff, Liisa – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Constructive alignment is often promoted as a principle to enhance the quality of learning but the student perspective has often been neglected when exploring its influence on student learning. There is therefore a need to further explore how students' experiences of the different elements of constructive alignment influence the approach to…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Learning Processes, Active Learning, Student Attitudes
Parrish, Christopher W.; Guffey, Sarah K.; Williams, David S. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2023
Developing a sense of classroom community is important in promoting course satisfaction and in helping students overcome feelings of disconnectedness, especially in online courses. When considering the various strategies identified as contributing to a sense of classroom community, instructors likely need support in which strategies and technology…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Learning Strategies, Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment
Jones, Jennifer A. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2019
Self-regulated learning assumes learners are active agents who can establish and make progress toward learning goals. Classroom activities can facilitate the emergence of self-regulated learning. One strategy to encourage self-regulated learning is to ask students to develop questions for a quiz or examination. The process of developing questions…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Class Activities
Williams, Marian H. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2012
Mind Mapping has predominantly been used by individuals or collaboratively in groups as a paper-based or computer-generated learning strategy. In an effort to make Mind Mapping kinesthetic, collaborative, and three-dimensional, an innovative pedagogical strategy, termed Physical Webbing, was devised. In the Physical Web activity, groups…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping
Stolk, Jonathan; Harari, Janie – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2014
It is well established that active learning helps students engage in high-level thinking strategies and develop improved cognitive skills. Motivation and self-regulated learning research, however, illustrates that cognitive engagement is an effortful process that is related to students' valuing of the learning tasks, adoption of internalized goal…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Active Learning, Learner Engagement, Thinking Skills
Morris, Cecile; Chikwa, Gladson – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2014
The use of screencasts as an instructional technology is increasing rapidly in higher education. While there appears to be a consensus around students' satisfaction with the provision of technology-enhanced tools, there is limited evidence revolving around their impact in terms of knowledge acquisition. Moreover, the reasons why students choose to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutorial Programs, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Learning
Perry, Bob – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2010
Academic research and newspaper stories suggest that academic misconduct, including plagiarism, is on the increase. This apparent increase coupled with new internet enterprises selling "pass" papers and customized research are worrying trends. Academic misconduct is deeply harmful in a number of ways by devaluing awards, frustrating…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Student Attitudes, Cheating, Teaching Methods
Buckley, Charles Alan; Pitt, Edd; Norton, Bill; Owens, Tessa – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2010
This project examined the relationships between students' approaches to study, conceptions of learning and judgements about the value of networked technologies. For the project 144 first-year students completed the 52-item Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST), and a series of focus group interviews was used to assess…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Interviews, Study Skills
