1. Active Learning: Rethinking Our Teaching to Promote Deeper Learning
Facilitated by Ken Silvestri, CFE Instructional Designer

2. WORKSHOP OUTCOMES
After participating in this workshop on active learning, you will be able to:
Distinguish between active learning and passive learning
Create a plan for integrating and facilitating active learning strategies in the classroom
(3) Use some common and simple active learning strategies in your
teaching
(4) Draw upon some instructional technologies to
support the use of active learning

3. OVERVIEW Why Active Learning What is Active Learning
How to Integrate Active Learning
How technology enables active learning
Source: Kenneth J. Silvestri Wordle

4. WHY ACTIVE LEARNING No Active Learning Active Learning
34% Failure Rate
22% Failure Rate
+6% better on examinations
Source: Freeman et al. (2014) Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. PNAS, June 10, 2014, vol. 111, no. 23

5. Attention Span = 10-20 Minutes
WHY ACTIVE LEARNING
INFORMATION
ENGAGEMENT
10-20 Minutes
Attention Span = Minutes
Source: Stuart & Rutherford, 1978; Wilson & Korn, 2007

6. WHAT IS ACTIVE LEARNING?
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7. WHAT IS ACTIVE LEARNING?
THINK (Individual): Take 2 minutes to think about what active learning means to you PAIR UP: Turn to the person next to you and discuss your ideas SHARE: Have one person share your thoughts with the larger group
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8. WHAT IS ACTIVE LEARNING?
PROBLEM SOLVING
INTERACTING
DISCUSSING
DOING/
ENGAGING
REFLECTING
TEACHING
APPLICATION

9. WHAT IS ACTIVE LEARNING?
BLOOM’S TAXONOMY
Higher Order Thinking Skills
“Students that are engaged in more activities than just listening. They are involved in dialog, debate, writing, and problem solving as well as higher order thinking, e.g. analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and creating” - Bonwell and Eison, 1991
”ZONE OF DEEPER LEARNING”
Lower Order Thinking Skills
Source: Benjamin Bloom

10. HOW: INTEGRATING ACTIVE LEARNING
50 Minute Lecture
5 Minute Thinking or Reflection Activity
Introduce New Topic or Revisit Previous Topic Minutes
Group Discussion or Application Activity Minutes
Introduce New Topic Minutes
5 Minute Reflection Activity
75 Minute Lecture: In-Depth Group Activity Minutes

11. HOW: INTEGRATING ACTIVE LEARNING
GROUP DISCUSSION ACTIVITY: Take 10 minutes to discuss active learning strategies that could fit in the active learning lecture model. SHARE: Have someone in your group with a laptop or tablet post your list of strategies for everyone to see at: You can add your list by clicking anywhere on the screen and typing in the box provided. Make sure to give your group a name in the title, i.e. Active Learning Bobcats.

12. Ask Before You Tell Think-Pair-Share Jigsaw One-Minute Paper
STRATEGY
OUTCOME
Activation of prior knowledge
Ask Before You Tell
Explaining, Discussion, and Collaboration
Think-Pair-Share
Peer Instruction, Evaluating, and Synthesizing
Jigsaw
Case Studies/
Problem-Solving
Real-World Relevancy, Analyzing, and Application
Reflection on what is being learned
One-Minute Paper

13. HOW: PREPARE YOUR STUDENTS
Why Active Learning
Start Early – Day One
Start Small
Community-and Team-Building

14. HOW: INTEGRATING ACTIVE LEARNING
More Time
Less Time

15. HOW: TECHNOLOGY AS ENABLER
RECORDED LECTURES
10:00
Manageable chunks targeting 1-2 concepts, 5-10 minutes long
0:00/10:00 CC

16. HOW: TECHNOLOGY AS ENABLER
FORMATIVEFEEDBACK
ONLINE QUIZZES
PREPARED STUDENTS

17. HOW: TECHNOLOGY AS ENABLER
Encourages participation
Prompt feedback
Facilitate higher order thinking skills and deeper learning
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18. HOW: LARGE ENROLLMENT COURSES

19. HOW: LARGE ENROLLMENT COURSES
INDIVIDUAL
PAIR
GROUP
ONE-MINUTE PAPER
THINK-PAIR-SHARE
ACTIVE DEBATE
PAIRED JIGSAW
NOTE SHARING
CONCEPT MAPS
iCLICKERS

20. ACTIVE LEARNING RESOURCES

21. ONE-MINUTE PAPER
1:00
INSTRUCTIONS: Take one minute to reflect on what you learned and write down one thing from this workshop that you can try in a course that you teach.

22. REFERENCES
Bloom B. S. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: The Cognitive Domain. (1956) New York: David McKay Co Inc.
Bonwell, C. C., & Eison, J. A. (1991). Active learning: Creating excitement in the
classroom. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 1. Washington, D.C.: The George Washington University.
Freeman et al. (2014) Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. PNAS, June 10, 2014, vol. 111, no. 23
Miller, Michelle D. (2014) Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology. Harvard University Press
Rose, D. & Meyer, A. Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. (2002). ASCD:
The Instructor’s Guide to Course Facilitation & Facilitation, Minnesota State University, [updated, 2015]