ACTIVE/COOPERATIVE LEARNING

Active Learning: Getting Students to Work and Think in the Classroom.
Speaking of Teaching, Stanford University (1993).
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CTL/teach/speak/stfall93.pdf
An argument for, and classification of, active learning strategies.

Alternative Teaching/Learning Methods
Faculty Forum workshop, April 2, 2003. (Updated in April 2004)
Facilitated by Stephanie Nickerson
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/Faculty/citl/articles/docs/
handout_alternative_april04.doc
Included are small group learning, ungraded quizzes, student presentations and others.

Active Learning: Practice at Retrieval.
David G. Brown, Syllabus, October 2001.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=5094
Short article filled with good ideas using computers.

Learning by Doing
Richard M. Felder & Rebecca Brent, North Carolina State U. (2003)
http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Columns/Active.pdf
Two-and-a-half page primer on active learning

The Enhanced Lecture.
Stephanie Nickerson, October 2002.
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/Faculty/citl/articles/docs/
enhanced.pdf
8 simple ways to increase student engagement.

We Never Said It Would Be Easy
Richard Felder, North Carolina State University (1995)
http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/
Columns/Noteasy.html
How to start using active or cooperative learning in your classroom.

Active/Cooperative Learning: Best Practices in Engineering Ed
Arizona State University
http://clte.asu.edu/active/main.htm
A comprehensive site for those who want to explore cooperative learning in depth.

Spicing Up Your Class.
Notes from Faculty Forum, November 2002
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Preview and Review
David G. Brown, Syllabus, March 2002.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6138

Active Waiting
Robert Boice, First-Order Principles for College Teachers: Ten Basic Ways to Improve the Teaching Process (1996)
Reprinted by Tomorrow's Professor listserv, Stanford University
http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/postings/552.html

>> See also: Discussions - Face-to-Face
>> See also: Group Collaboration/Small Groups