Creating Active Learning Environments
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The document discusses creating active learning environments in higher education. It summarizes research showing active learning improves student performance and outcomes compared to traditional lecturing. It explores dimensions of learning space design like transmission vs interaction, flexibility, aesthetics, and technology. It provides examples of innovative learning space designs and discusses how instructors can adapt spaces to promote active learning. It also addresses challenges colleges face in designing learning environments and how to advance spaces given infrastructure constraints.
Creating Active Learning Environments
- 1. Creating Active Learning Environments One Way or Another Derek Bruff (@derekbruff) Center for Teaching (@vandycft) Vanderbilt University Twitter: #LearningSpaces Photos: tinyurl.com/dbspaces
- 3. “Active Learning Increases Student Performance in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics,” Scott Freeman et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014. Transmission vs. Interaction • 228 studies comparing active learning to traditional lecturing • Failure Rates: – Lecturing: 34% – Active Learning: 22% • Exam Scores: – Active Learning: 6 points higher
- 4. The Berry School circa 1910 (replica)
- 7. TILE Classroom, University of Iowa
- 8. Insert Peabody Photo Here Vanderbilt University
- 13. Nutrition & Dietetics Lab, Viterbo University
- 14. Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University
- 16. BYOD Wired Up DIGITAL TECH
- 19. Insert Engineering Photo Here Vanderbilt University
- 20. BYOD Wired Up DIGITAL TECH
- 27. Classroom #1 Indiana University, Bloomington
- 30. How can individual instructors navigate the affordances and constraints posed by the learning spaces in which they teach?
- 32. Vanderbilt University Photo Credit: Vanderbilt University
- 37. How might an instructor hack Classroom #1, 2, or 3?
- 38. How can colleges and universities work to advance the design of learning environments given campus infrastructure limitations?
- 40. St. Olaf College
- 41. Georgia Institute of Technology
- 42. St. Olaf College
- 43. TILE Classroom, University of Iowa
- 44. 1. What constraints or challenges do you face on your campus when it comes to creating active learning environments? 2. How might you or others on your campus work within those constraints or around those challenges?
- 45. Derek Bruff: derekbruff.org / @derekbruff Vanderbilt Center for Teaching: cft.vanderbilt.edu / @vandycft Learning Spaces on Flicker: tinyurl.com/dbspaces