The December 2017 Interest Group on Educational Technologies (IGET) meeting focused on active learning strategies, per the interest expressed by the IGET community via a survey.
… Read the rest Dr. Ava Wolf started our session with an educational technologist’s perspective on active learning, including research behind why active learning is superior for promoting knowledge retention over other forms of learning, particularly over lecture models. She also shared the various psychological factors that give students motivation to learn and how active learning plays to those factors.