{"id":258,"date":"2022-12-14T12:48:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/active-learning\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=258"},"modified":"2024-03-25T14:10:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T18:10:56","slug":"introduction-to-active-learning","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/active-learning\/chapter\/introduction-to-active-learning\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to active learning","rendered":"Introduction to active learning"},"content":{"raw":"[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1000\"]<img src=\"http:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/active-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/12\/active-learning-classroom-action.jpg\" alt=\"A dozen adult learners sit in small groups around tables with an assortment of creative materials such as coloured paper, markers, post-it notes and modelling clay.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/> Adult learners in an active learning classroom. \u00a9 Concordia University.[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<span class=\"xlarge-text\">Advances in educational research and neuroscience are helping us to better understand how learning works and ways in which a university experience for today's students can become even better. Supporting more active and collaborative approaches to teaching and learning is a key finding of these discoveries. Active learning promotes greater student engagement and higher-order thinking by encouraging students to work together to become the main contributors to all discovery and knowledge-building processes in class and online.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"xlarge-text\">To help ensure that these strategies are collaborative and lead to the shared creation of knowledge by all learners together in groups, teams or peer-to-peer the activities must be intentionally designed, implemented and facilitated by the course instructor.<\/span>","rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/active-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/12\/active-learning-classroom-action.jpg\" alt=\"A dozen adult learners sit in small groups around tables with an assortment of creative materials such as coloured paper, markers, post-it notes and modelling clay.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adult learners in an active learning classroom. \u00a9 Concordia University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"xlarge-text\">Advances in educational research and neuroscience are helping us to better understand how learning works and ways in which a university experience for today&#8217;s students can become even better. 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