By Diane Starke, El Paso Community College Research has
demonstrated that students learn more if they are actively
engaged with the material they are studying. This self-paced
module consists of annotated websites which include definitions,
active learning strategies for use in the college classroom, and
practical suggestions and examples of active learning
activities. This website from Stoutland Elementary School in
Missouri, provides an extensive list of the various definitions
of active learning originally posted by the Teaching Resource
Center at UC Davis. Excerpts of the definitions are presented
followed by full texts of the definitions with citations.
Powerful Partnerships: A Shared Responsibility for Learning
(1998 Joint Report, American Association for Higher Education,
et. al.) describes learning as an inherently active process: To
locate more resources about active learning, visit this
annotated bibliography: Felder, R., Felder, G., and Dietz, E.J.
(1998). "A longitudinal study of engineering stude