Publication Date
| In 2026 | 1 |
| Since 2025 | 648 |
| Since 2022 (last 5 years) | 3451 |
| Since 2017 (last 10 years) | 8039 |
| Since 2007 (last 20 years) | 12286 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
| Teachers | 886 |
| Practitioners | 322 |
| Researchers | 75 |
| Students | 72 |
| Administrators | 69 |
| Policymakers | 36 |
| Parents | 23 |
| Media Staff | 17 |
| Support Staff | 5 |
| Community | 4 |
| Counselors | 4 |
| More ▼ | |
Location
| Australia | 371 |
| Indonesia | 363 |
| Turkey | 346 |
| United Kingdom | 243 |
| Canada | 241 |
| China | 223 |
| Spain | 198 |
| California | 148 |
| Taiwan | 144 |
| Thailand | 143 |
| United States | 128 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 5 |
| Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 13 |
| Does not meet standards | 19 |
Becker, Melissa Roberts; Winn, Pam; Erwin, Susan – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
Each semester faculty members at a regional university encountered students in their courses who were unprepared for learning. As the demand for rigor continues to increase in all fields of study continues to increase, professors expressed concern regarding preparedness of their students to enter the work-force. In an effort to leverage the…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Student Centered Learning, Active Learning, Learner Engagement
Hourigan, Kristen Lee – Teaching Sociology, 2013
This article introduces a simple, flexible approach to engaging students within large classes, known as ARC (application, response, collaboration). ARC encourages each student's presence and engagement in class; creates a sense of excitement and anticipation; breaks down passivity and anonymity; effectively gains, maintains, and utilizes students'…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Class Size, Cooperation, Student Participation
Furman, Nate; Sibthorp, Jim – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
Experiential learning techniques can be helpful in fostering learning transfer. Techniques such as project-based learning, reflective learning, and cooperative learning provide authentic platforms for developing rich learning experiences. In contrast to more didactic forms of instruction, experiential learning techniques foster a depth of learning…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Adult Education, Adult Students, Experiential Learning
Steven Wolk – English Journal, 2013
One of the primary aims of schools is supposed to be to educate children and young adults to be caretakers of our fragile and complex democracy. School is the one common American experience with the hope to inspire students to participate in the ongoing pursuit of a more caring and thoughtful society and a more harmonious world. Young adult…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Adolescent Literature, Democracy, Social Responsibility
Hunter, William J. – College Quarterly, 2015
In the first piece in this series ("Teaching for Engagement: Part 1: Constructivist Principles, Case-Based Teaching, and Active Learning"), William Hunter sought to make the case that a wide range of teaching methods (e.g., case-based teaching, problem-based learning, anchored instruction) that share an intellectual grounding in…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Constructivism (Learning), Learner Engagement, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
Metzger, Kelsey J. – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2015
Effectively managing active learning classrooms (ALCs), particularly large ALCs, can present a variety of challenges for instructors. There is a rapidly growing body of research literature addressing the impact of ALCs on student engagement and learning, but fewer studies have focused on investigating instructional practices and instructors in…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students, Biology
Eddy, Sarah L.; Converse, Mercedes; Wenderoth, Mary Pat – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2015
There is extensive evidence that active learning works better than a completely passive lecture. Despite this evidence, adoption of these evidence-based teaching practices remains low. In this paper, we offer one tool to help faculty members implement active learning. This tool identifies 21 readily implemented elements that have been shown to…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice, Active Learning
Yates, Thomas; Wilson, Jay; Purton, Kendra – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
The purpose of this study was to determine the methods of experiential assessment in use at a Canadian university and the extent to which they are used. Exploring experiential assessment will allow identification of commonly used methods and facilitate the development of best practices of assessment in the context of experiential learning (EL) at…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Best Practices
Montgomery, Amanda P.; Hayward, Denyse V.; Dunn, William; Carbonaro, Mike; Amrhein, Carl G. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
The purpose of this ongoing, three-year action research study is to explore the digital challenges of student engagement in higher education within the experimental platform of blended learning. Research questions examine the role of digital innovation in supporting diverse learners, as well as building meaningful connections with technology for…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Learner Engagement, Online Courses, Class Size
Therrell, James A.; Dunneback, Staci K. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
Through prioritizing student voice, this study investigated the perspectives of millennial students in relation to their preferences and priorities for how they desired to experience teaching and learning. While not experts, our assumption was that undergraduate students, because of their relatively long experience as students, would be closely in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Needs Assessment, Student Interests
Ogbuanya, T. C.; Owodunni, A. S. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study was designed to determine the effect of reflective inquiry instructional technique on achievement of students in Technical Colleges. The study adopted a pre-test, post-test, non-equivalent control group, quasi-experimental research design which involved groups of students in their intact class assigned to experimental group and control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Inquiry, Active Learning
Desyatov, Tymofiy – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2015
The article analyzes the development of competency-based professional training standards and their implementation into educational process in foreign countries. It determines that the main idea of competency-based approach is competency-and-active learning, which aims at complex acquirement of diverse skills and ways of practice activities via…
Descriptors: Standards, Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Professional Education
Stout, David E. – Accounting Education, 2015
This paper describes a classroom-tested instructional resource, grounded in principles of active learning and a constructivism, that embraces two primary objectives: "demystify" for accounting students technical material from statistics regarding ordinary least-squares (OLS) regression analysis--material that students may find obscure or…
Descriptors: Accounting, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Constructivism (Learning)
Kalathaki, Maria – World Journal of Education, 2015
Greek school community emphasizes on the discovery direction of teaching methodology in the school Environmental Education (EE) in order to promote Education for the Sustainable Development (ESD). In ESD school projects the used methodology is experiential teamwork for inquiry based learning. The proposed tool checks whether and how a school…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Evaluation Methods, Discovery Learning
Allison, Pete; Gray, Shirley; Sproule, John; Nash, Christine; Martindale, Russell; Wang, John – Improving Schools, 2015
Regardless of the aims and purposes of education, recent trends in pedagogy suggest an increasing popularity of project-based learning (PBL) and a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to learning, however ill-defined they may be. Connections between PBL, curriculum trends and health and wellbeing are reviewed, as well as potential value of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Student Projects, Interdisciplinary Approach

Peer reviewed
Direct link
