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The Benefits of Active Learning:
Theory and Practice
to Support Student Learning
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Megan [email protected]
Lisa [email protected]
Workshop slides will be available at
http://ls-cwsei.biology.ubc.ca
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Time (mins) Activity Description:
5 Intro
20Describe how people learn, and what an active
classroom looks like
20 Identify benefits of an active-learning classroom
10What is the role of the instructor in an active
classroom?
5 Closing
Goals & Agenda
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THINK-PAIR-SHARE:
How do people learn? Your list:
• By being heard
• By being in a safe and valued environment
• By making real-life connections to the material
• By thinking critcally, analyzing, applying
• By making mistakes
• By imitation
• Using multiple sense
• Inspiration
• Hearing stories
• Music and mnemonics
• Doing projects collaboratively
• Experimenting!
• By discussing, arguing, articulating
• By repetition
• By watching, taking notes – synthesizing, interpreting
• Hands on: themselves, and/or demonstrations
• By teaching!
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Experts
• Can identify patterns and relationships
between scientific concepts
• Organize their knowledge differently than
novices
• Make more connections – can retrieve and
apply knowledge to novel problems
• Ability to monitor own thinking and learning
• Motivated to learn about the problem
Students:
on the novice expert continuum
Developing expertise takes
deliberate practice and feedback!
This is active learning.
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What does an active class look like?
Put these up on the wall!
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Major themes that emerged:
Instructors:
Monitoring & guiding, facilitating/managing, asking questions, giving feedback, moving around, modeling and developing ideas
Students:
Asking/answering questions, engaged, in groups, talking, listening & reflecting, solving problems, having fun
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What are some benefits
of active learning?
Let’s look at some data.
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Active learning is less stressful
for students
Active learning course
Traditional course
(Low) (High) Marlowe, 2012
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Students in active classes are more
engaged, perform better on tests
(Deslauriers et
al, Science,
2011)
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Traditional lectures Active learning
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Active Learning Reduces the
Achievement Gap
More structure: Active learning-
enhances performance of
under-represented minority (URM)
students (and does not harm non-URM)
Haak et al. 2011.
Science 332(6034), 1213–6.
Similar results found by Eddy et al., 2014.
URM & 1st gen
Non-URM and not 1st gen
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A meta-analysis of 225 studies
that compared active learning
with lecture-based instruction,
on identical exams,
in undergraduate STEM courses.
Overall effect size = 0.47
(In introductory STEM, this equates
to a 6% increase in exam scores.)
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Clusters/classifications from Lund and Stains 2015;
Normalized change calculations from Marx & Cummings 2007
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Instructional styles & learning gains – an example from
our department
Classroom practices
observed, and
classified into
instructional style:
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Increased Learning & Retention
- Less failure & improved outcomes
- More motivation/interest/engagement
- Reducing gaps between student populations
In Summary, the data shows:
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What about the benefits to the
instructor?• Avoiding burnout! Always different every time
• Magic moment where you get to be part of them learning!
• Moment where they’re stuck and you get to help!
• Trust: giving responsibility of learning to the students, trusting them to learn.
• Empowerment! Self-efficacy
• MORE FUN!
• Build stronger relationships with students.
• Encourages collaboration between instructors!
• We’re doing what we ask our students to do!
• Encourages creativity
• I know so much more about what’s going on with the students – e.g. misconceptions.
• Rewarding!
• Energy in classroom!
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Putting it all together:
What are the roles of the
instructor in active teaching?
• In groups of 3-4, discuss and write ideas
on white boards.
• Gallery walk to see others’ ideas – you
may add ideas or comments.
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What are the roles of the
instructor in active teaching?• Prompt and provoke• Be ready! Plan your lesson.• What are you preparing
– Have tricks up your sleeve– Get ideas from peers, benchmarks
• Share expertise• Instructor expertise is critical. How to know what feedback to give?
– Observe students– Collect information on what students know, and what they have
misconceptions on.
• Understanding what it is you want them to know• Understand their misconceptions• Understand what steps they need to take to get to expertise• Make a plan to get them there.
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Thank you. Questions?
Resources!
http://cwsei.ubc.ca/resources/index.html
Megan [email protected]
Lisa [email protected]
Workshop slides will be available at:
http://ls-cwsei.biology.ubc.ca