How-to Guide for Active Learning

Alice Fornari, Ann Poznanski

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9783030629151
• eBook ISBN:
  9783030629168
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Adult Education

This book focuses on large and small group educational settings and offers brief strategies to engage learners to assure active learning strategies are core to the learning environment. 

The book opens with an introduction on active learning principles. Each chapter follows with a specific description of a strategy written by authors who are experienced in using the strategy in a classroom environment with students. The chapters are designed to be accessible and practical for the reader to apply in their learning environments.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Overview of Active Learning Research and Rationale for Active Learning
• 2. The Flipped Classroom: Freeing Up Class Time for Strategic Active Learning
• 3. Team-Based Learning
• 4. Games as a Teaching and Learning Tool in Medical Education
• 5. Brief Activities: Questioning, Brainstorming, Think-Pair-Share, Jigsaw, and Clinical Case Discussions
• 6. Concept Mapping: An Andragogy Suited for Facilitating Education of the Adult Millennial Learner
• 7. Active Learning in ‘The Cloud’: Using “Social” Technologies to Expand the Medical Classroom
• 8. Audience Response Systems Used as Information Retrieval Practice
• 9. Socratic Questioning to Engage Learners
• 10. Organ Recitals: A Large Group Active Learning Technique
• 11. A Metacognitive Perspective: Keys to Effective Active Learning and Potential Barriers