While active learning is a natural fit for small seminar courses, instructors facing a hundred (or more) students seated in rows designed for passive spectatorship might struggle to venture beyond the ...

4 Questions to Guide Classroom Design. By next year, the University of Oklahoma will have nearly a dozen active learning spaces, up from one in 2012. Every single classroom looks different from the ...

Active learning drives better retention of knowledge, and once employees have the expertise on a subject, they will be better able to make decisions, drive strategy and execute.

"[Under active learning,] students learn more, which means we're doing our job better. They get higher grades and fail less, meaning that they are more likely to stay in STEM majors, which should ...

While hundreds of peer-reviewed studies have concluded that students taught in an active learning environment are significantly more likely to outperform peers who are in classes taught more ...

A case in point is a 2019 study led by Louis Deslauriers, director of science teaching and learning in arts and sciences at Harvard University. Researchers randomly assigned college students in a ...