Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic rush towards active learning as the best method to teach students. And certainly active learning provides great value for students.
But is all active learning all the time really the best way to teach, especially at a university level?
What do evolutionary psychology and research involving high impact teaching interventions have to say about active learning?
Is active learning perhaps related to the procedural learning pathways involved in habit-is that where part of its value comes from?
What is happening in student brains that makes certain interventions particularly effective-or less effective?
As it turns out, there are practical improvements could you make right now in your teaching to improve student motivation, engagement, and learning, all growing from recent findings in neuroscience. We’ll be covering this, and much more, in this plenary, based on the upcoming critically acclaimed book Uncommon Sense Teaching, (Penguin Random House, June 15, 2021).
Speaker: Barbara Oakley - Professor of Engineering @ Oakland University, Instructor @ MOOC "Learning How to Learn"
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