Active learning in large class settings.

1995 ◽  
Vol 269 (6) ◽  
pp. S73 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Large Class ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Factual Knowledge ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Large Classes ◽  
Sources And Sinks ◽  
Working Together

Science education is in the process of shifting from the mastery of a large body of factual information to an emphasis on the development of reasoning skills and the solving of practical problems. Such skills are best developed by instructors and students working together in an active learning environment as opposed to instructors and students being, respectively, sources and sinks of factual knowledge. Most models of active learning are geared toward small group (< 15 students) settings in which interactions between students and instructor are optimized. However, basic courses in physiology are often forced to meet in large classes in which it is more difficult to utilize active learning methods. The panelists in this workshop demonstrated techniques that they use in large class settings to promote an active learning experience. We hope that this summary of the workshop will encourage you to experiment with educational approaches to improve the efficacy of teaching in the large class setting.

Start-Up Sprint: Providing a Small Group Learning Experience in a Large Group Setting

2020 ◽  
pp. 105256292094892
Author(s):  
Rachel Hilliard
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Large Class ◽  
Real World ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Small Group Teaching ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
Large Classes ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Faculty Time

Entrepreneurial education should reflect the real-world entrepreneurial process by providing for experiential learning. The challenge is reconciling this with the resource constraints that lead to large class settings, even in specialized postgraduate programs. This article offers practical suggestions for creating a highly interactive event as part of a largely lecture-based module. Students participate in a full-day Start-Up Sprint that uses real-world entrepreneurship tools and mimics the intense experience of a start-up event. This experiential exercise is designed to provide students in a large class with the experience and benefits of small group teaching, through a hands-on problem-based learning exercise that is supported by mentoring and live feedback. It provides entrepreneurship teachers of large classes with a way to mitigate the constraints of large classes, faculty time, and physical infrastructure and offer students a meaningful learning experience.

scholarly journals Peer actions for a service learning project to prevent drug-facilitated sexual assaults

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Montalvo ◽  
Gloria Quintanilla ◽  
Fernando E. Ortega-Ojeda ◽  
Carmen García-Ruiz ◽  
Pablo Prego-Meleiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
Vertical Coordination ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Different Levels

The service-learning methodology combines active learning processes and community service. This service-learning experience was performed using an interdisciplinary and cross plan. The teachers made a horizontal coordination in the courses, and a vertical coordination in subjects of the Degrees involved. This allowed working together in the students’ curricular training process. It also permitted covering various specific skills, as corresponds to the different subjects, whilst optimizing the students’ workload. The service addressed the problem of drug-facilitated sexual assaults (DFSA) in the youth leisure nightlife. DFSA is the temporary disability of a person caused by a decrease in her/his volitional and cognitive abilities due to the voluntary or involuntary consumption of a psychoactive substance. An active learning about the problem was encouraged in the classroom, focused on recognizing myths, attitudes, and risk situations. The service-learning actions to the community was based on an anonymous survey conducted among the students, which dealt with the problem. The Service Learning was stimulated through the design, planning and development of activities aimed at gaining social awareness of the existing problem while favouring peer learning processes. The students undertook awareness actions at different levels, spreading their message by means of social networks, high school workshops, and information stands on the street.

scholarly journals Effects of an applied supplemental course on student performance in elementary physiology.

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Richardson ◽  
B Birge
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Learning Opportunity ◽  
Lecture Material ◽  
Subjective Scale ◽  
Supplemental Course ◽  
Didactic Lecture

The objective of this study was to determine whether students within a large (100-160 students) didactic lecture-based course, "Elementary Physiology" (EP), who were given an active-learning opportunity would perform better on objective examinations over EP material compared with their classroom peers who did not have the same active-learning experience. This was achieved by offering the EP students the option of taking a supplemental one credit hour discussion-based course, "Case Studies in Physiology" (CSP). Approximately 14% of the EP students opted for the CSP course. The format of CSP consisted of a one-hour-per-week discussion of applied problems based on the factual information presented in EP. On a subjective scale of 1 to 4, the CSP students felt that the course helped them to understand the EP material (3.5). This was reflected in the EP examination results for which the CSP students scored significantly higher compared with their non-CSP peers (81.1% vs. 75.7%; P < 0.05). These results indicate that when active-learning methods, such as discussion of applied problems, are used as a supplement to didactic lectures in physiology, performance on objective examinations of lecture material is improved.

Modifikasi Sistem Asistensi dan Responsi Kelas Kecil pada Praktikum Parasitologi Blok Digestif dan Hematoimunologi Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Riau

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Suri Dwi Lesmana ◽  
Esy Maryanti
Keyword(s):  
Large Class ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Small Class ◽  
Laboratory Practice ◽  
Large Classes ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Competency Based

Faculty of Medicine University of Riau has been implementing Competency Based Curriculum (KBK) with theProblem Based Learning (PBL) since 2007 with the implementation of teaching and learning activities of the systemconsists of a tutorial activities, skillab, expert lectures, independent and practical. However, there are still manyproblems in the implementation of the KBK on preclinic degree. One part of the block that is identified to be one ofthe causes of low graduation exam block is less efective coaching laboratory practice. Parasitology is one part of thetask is to provide laboratory practice in several blocks on the stage of preclinic especially digestive and hematoimunologyblock. This study aimed to compare the results of the evaluation of parasitology laboratory practice in hematoimunologyand digestive assistance and posttest in large classes with small class. Assistance and posttest in large class performedon the digestive block implementation and hematoimunologi in 2011 while assisting and posttest of small classes ona block implementation in 2012. Average value of small class digestive laboratory practice was not significantlylower than the large class but the proportion of the value of quality B and C more many in small classes. The meanvalue of the block hematoimunologi laboratory practice significantly higher on small class assistance and posttest aswell as the proportion of the value of quality A, B and C was higher in small classes than large classes.

Leveraging Active Learning Pedagogy in a Scaffolded Approach: Reconceptualizing Instructional Leadership Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason D. Salisbury ◽  
Decoteau J. Irby
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Instructional Leadership ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
The University

This article investigates how the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) redesigned its three-course instructional leadership strand to operate as a continuous three-semester learning experience that sequenced and emphasized an active learning pedagogy. This accounting elaborates the design and use of this pedagogy to support aspirant leaders in progressing through a continuum of knowers, assessors, and demonstrators of instructional leadership practice. Finally, we discuss the tensions that emerged from this approach to instructional leadership learning.

scholarly journals DISENTANGLING KNOWLEDGE AND BIAS: COMBATING AGEISM WITH THE REVISED FACTS ON AGING QUIZ

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S455-S455
Author(s):  
Jensen Davis ◽  
Linda Breytspraak ◽  
Jacob Marszalek ◽  
Joan McDowd
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Factual Knowledge ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Age Bias ◽  
Aging Research ◽  
Response Options ◽  
Test Of Knowledge

Abstract The Facts on Aging Quiz (FoAQ) was developed in 1977 as a 25-item True/False test of knowledge about older adults. Since that time, it has been utilized in hundreds of studies involving clarifying misconceptions, measuring factual knowledge across different groups, and assessing bias toward older adults. The current study examines the psychometric properties of a revision to the FoAQ created in 2015 that modified the original items and added 25 more to better reflect contemporary aging research. Participants were sampled using Qualtrics and MTurk platforms and targeted to equally represent the following four age groups: 18-34, 35-49, 50-64, and 65 and older. Exploratory factor analysis (n=956) did not support a multi-factor structure, contrary to previous theories of it having cognitive, physical, societal, and psychological health factors. A single factor model was forced which contained 28 items that only accounted for 26% of the variance in scores. The reliability reached satisfactory levels in the younger three age groups with the 28-item version but remained inadequate among those 65 and older. Small associations with the Expectations Regarding Aging-12 and Aging Semantic Differential scales were observed. In its present format, the FoAQ is not sufficient for research use but remains a useful tool in provoking discussion about age bias and areas in which people of all ages lack factual information. Researchers suggest an expansion in response options and further clarifying the use of this instrument as a measure of knowledge or bias.

Working together online to enhance learner autonomy: Analysis of learners’ perceptions of their online learning experience

ReCALL ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérôme Eneau ◽  
Christine Develotte
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Learning Collaborative ◽  
Online Learners ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Working Together

AbstractThis study concerns the development of autonomy in adult learners working on an online learning platform as part of a professional master's degree programme in “French as a Foreign Language”. Our goal was to identify the influence of reflective and collaborative dimensions on the construction of autonomy for online learners in this programme. The material used was 27 self-analysis papers in response to an assignment which asked students to review their distance learning experience (reflective dimension) and to highlight the role of others, if any, in their learning (collaborative dimension). In addition to these two major points, the analysis by category of the body of results shows principally that in qualitative terms, the factors of autonomisation for online learning are interconnected and include: the difficulties related to distance learning and the strategies that learners develop to face those difficulties, the importance of interpersonal relationships in social and emotional terms in overcoming those difficulties, the specific modes of sociability developed for distance learning and the related development of a new type of autonomy that is both individual and collective. The discussion examines the creation, over the course of time, of a new “distance learning culture” that is nonetheless never easy to create and share.

THE NATURE-BASED SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL APPROACH AND SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILD: A NECESSARY RELATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Svetlana Angelova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Child ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Elementary School Child ◽  
Modern Vision ◽  
Primary School Age ◽  
Emotional Approach

The article presents the Nature-based socio-emotional approach and science education for primary school child as a necessary relation on two levels. At the conceptual level the approach is analysed through the prism of the cumulative effects of nature and society to the cognitive and socio-emotional development of the child’s personality: in primary school age cognitive and emotional-volitional mental processes are socially predetermined and have the essence of a result. At the applied level, the Nature-based socio-emotional approach is analysed through active learning in nature as an authentic learning environment – the focus is on the acquisition of knowledge, the formation of cognitive and socio-emotional skills to overcome consumer culture and sustainable development of nature. In this regard, the effects of active learning are viewed in sync with the learning environment, which collectively generate added value to learning and become a kind of „key“ to creating a modern vision of science education in primary school today .

Active Learning Online

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Viktor Wang ◽  
Leslie Hitch ◽  
Geraldine Torrisi-Steele
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Strategic Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Current Century ◽  
Teaching Goal ◽  
Current Article

Preparing graduates for the present and future workforce is an important strategic learning and teaching goal of higher education. Towards realizing this goal, institutions are expending significant effort promoting active learning as an institution-wide teaching approach. Active learning defined as learners deeply participating in the learning process are being increasingly used in face-to-face contexts, but can it be used just as effectively in the online environments now common in higher education? In their 2017 paper, the authors established that active learning online is certainly possible. In this current article the authors assert that not only is active learning online possible, but that it is a necessity to bolster workforce and higher order thinking skills needed in this current century. Importantly, the faculties have a crucial role to play in implementing active learning online, and active learning online permeate the whole of the online learning experience within courses.

scholarly journals Promoting Societal-Oriented Communication and Decision Making Skills by Learning about Advertising in Science Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-49
Author(s):  
Nadja Belova ◽  
Ingo Eilks
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
School Context ◽  
Consumer Learning ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Everyday Lives

In our everyday lives we are surrounded by advertising in its various forms. Thus in the school context it is not surprising that the issue of advertising is addressed by different subjects, with the main foci being advertising-specific language, images and illustrations, use of stereotypes, strategies of persuasion etc. But advertising also contains factual information, being explicit or implicit, to make a campaign more credible and underline the effectiveness of a certain product. Dealing with the use of factual information in advertising critically is important for the consumer. For many products this information is derived from science and technology. Understanding the science in and behind advertising is necessary to become a critical consumer. Learning about the use of science in advertising also allows promoting societal-oriented communication and decision making skills in the science classroom. Unfortunately, only a few examples on the use of advertising in the science classroom exist. This paper provides a justification for the use of advertising in science education. Examples from the classroom developed in the framework of the PROFILES-project are provided by way of illustration.

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