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Active Teaching and Active Learning: Techniques and Strategies for Instructors

Traditional classrooms have for the most part presented learning in a fixed and rigid environment where students put all their focus and attention on the teacher. Students are only meant to be listening exclusively without any activity. But in active learning classrooms, students actively engage with each other and the materials and this has been found to promote deep learning and development skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, communication and collaboration. Hence, there is need for instructors to learn and train on some of the techniques and strategies to use in their active learning classrooms in order to have students with highlighted benefits.

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Active Teaching and Active Learning: Techniques and Strategies for Instructors

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  1. Active Teaching and Active Learning: Techniques and Strategies for Instructors Njai Samuel - Instructional Technology PhD Student

  2. Opening Questions • What is Active Learning? Is any approach to instruction in which students are actively engaged and involved in the learning process. • Take a moment to reflect on your experience with Active Learning • Come up with a positive and a negative example of Active learning

  3. Theoretical Framework • Active learning is purely based on theory of constructivism. • Constructivist  theories holds that people learn by constructing their own understanding and knowledge of the world through experience and reflecting upon that experience (Harasim, 2017).

  4. The Goals of Active learning • Increase student engagement Student ownership • More exciting classroom experience Creativity • Increase students participation Critical thinking • Increase students retention Problem solving • Less lecturing by instructor

  5. Active Techniques • Think-pair-share (pair-share) Cooperative learning • Role playing Concept maps • Collaborative assignments Use of technology • Group quizzing Games • Simulations Minute papers and writing assignments • PBL and case studies Journalism

  6. Concept Map - is a conceptual diagram used to help students organize and represent knowledge of a subject. Benefits of Concept Mapping Helping students brainstorm and generate new ideas Encouraging students to discover new concepts and the propositions that connect them Allowing students to more clearly communicate ideas, thoughts and information Helps students see relationships between ideas, concepts, or authors Helping students integrate new concepts with older concepts Helps memory recall Helps in learners think creatively Develops higher-level thinking (create, analyze and evaluate)

  7. Concerns and Issues • Multiple activities can create multiple distraction • Overwhelming technology Instructors resistance • Lack of relevant materials or equipment • Large classes Students resistance • What are your concerns about using active learning activities & techniques?

  8. Activities….. • Concept maps - design a concept map on your topic! - Tools: https://www.mindmeister.com/ https://www.mindomo.com/ https://www.mindmup.com/ • Games - Kahoot - Let's play the game! https://create.kahoot.it/share/active-learning-challenge/bb6215b2-2d51-4c26-83cf-03d7eba1cbc8

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