Strategies for Promoting Active Learning in Education - Insights from Jennifer Muzyka

Explore effective ways to promote active learning among students and faculty colleagues based on insights shared by Jennifer Muzyka from Centre College. Discover methods to sell active learning to students and faculty, emphasizing the benefits of starting on the first day of class, embracing mistakes, and sharing student performance data. Learn how to align educational goals with lifelong learning skills and engage in self-study to enhance information acquisition and application. Gain valuable strategies for implementing active learning in educational settings.

• Active learning
• Education strategies
• Student engagement
• Faculty development
• Lifelong learning

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1. Introducing Active Learning to Students and Colleagues Jennifer Muzyka, Centre College Active Learning in Organic Chemistry, 2015

2. How would you sell active learning to students?

3. How would you sell active learning to students? Start on first day of class Mention pedagogical literature Embrace mistakes Share data on student performance (requires assessment & keeping track)

4. Thinking of what you want to get out of your college education and this course, which of the following is most important to you? 1. Acquiring information (facts, principles, concepts) 2. Learning how to use information and knowledge in new situations 3. Developing lifelong learning skills

5. Of these three goals, which do you think you can make headway on outside of class by your own reading and studying? 1. Acquiring information (facts, principles, concepts) 2. Learning how to use information and knowledge in new situations 3. Developing lifelong learning skills

7. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

9. Is anyone willing to be the first penguin?

11. How would you sell active learning to faculty colleagues?

12. How would you sell active learning to faculty colleagues? Share interesting articles you read Visit colleague s class, have them visit yours Organize book discussion groups Teaching workshops Colorado SEI, www.colorado.edu/sei Share data on student performance (requires assessment & keeping track)

13. Resources First-Day Questions for the Learner-Centered Classroom, Gary A. Smith, The National Teaching & Learning Forum, September 2008, 17 (5), 1-4. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Hachette Books, 2008. Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown et al, Belknap Press, 2014. How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan A. Ambrose et al, Jossey-Bass, 2010. Oriental Trading, http://www.orientaltrading.com

14. Workshop Objectives By the end of the workshop, participants will be better able to describe the benefits of active learning. align learning goals, assessments, and teaching activities. apply at least two pedagogies/ technologies to enhance student learning outcomes. recognize this community* as a resource to help you on your journey toward more active learning in the classroom. * ALOC workshop participants and the Organic Education Resources (OrganicERs.org) virtual community