Engaged and Active Student Learning

To allow students more time in class to work together on assignments, traditional lectures may be moved outside the classroom where they become homework. (12 min.)

Narrated PowerPoints

Working with a Learning Management System, like the Canvas pages seen here, can help coordinate online lectures, prompts, tests, quizzes, study aids, discussions, and even group projects, freeing more class time for active learning.

Using Canvas

Using Prompts

Student with laptop computer in EASL room

Active learning works best where space allows it, and the EASL classrooms at Auburn University, like others of their kind, are designed for this purpose.

EASL Classroom

One of the first adjustments for teachers new to active learning is trusting the students to share responsibility for their own education. But with a carefully structured class and directed questions, then you and they will both soon learn that trust. (6 min.)

Scott Simkins

Engaged and Active Student Learning