What is active student
learning?
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times="" new="" mso-ansi-language:="" mso-fareast-language:=""mso-bidi-language:="">Tried to get a definition for ‘active student
learning’ today. I wanted a definition that would help students
identify if their course was structured in a way to encourage
active learning.
My understanding was that it involves the learners applying what
they know. This may be doing case studies, simulations, etc. This
seemed too broad. Went to Google and did a ‘define: active
learning’ search. The results ranged from learning where a person
is physically active to a definition from e-learning at
Bath that was
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times="" new="" mso-ansi-language:="" mso-fareast-language:=""mso-bidi-language:="">“Learning in which the learner is the
principle driving force, with the instructor as the facilitator of
the process. Could include experiential learning, co-operative
learning, and problem solving for example.”
Still wasn’t satisfied with that so went to the glossary at the UK
Learning
and Teaching Support Network. They suggested:
M
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times="" new="" mso-ansi-language:="" mso-fareast-language:=""mso-bidi-language:="">ethods that attempt to develop the cognitive
and affective dimensions of the learning process in such a way that
learners' active involvement in the learning is
improved.’
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times="" new="" mso-ansi-language:="" mso-fareast-language:=""mso-bidi-language:="">The Affective domain is the emotion aspects
such as motivation and cognitive are the knowledge, understanding
and thinking. My conclusion was that I have not got a definition
that your average student would understand.
