Active Learning
Principle 1: Nurture active learning
Active learning involves both guided and independent learning and should be designed with the achievement of learning outcomes as a focus. Provide active learning opportunities for students to encourage deeper learning, making effective use of in-person or live web conferencing sessions to engage and interact with your students. Try to complement live (synchronous) sessions with activities students can complete within their own schedule by a certain time/date (asynchronous).
- Possible approaches
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What you can do
- release content ahead of time (e.g. as bite-size recordings, preparatory readings);
- use a flipped classroom approach to allow more interactive, problem-
based learning; - use student-led teaching (e.g. allowing students to research a topic, and share
it with peers); - use practical and/or virtual activities (labs / creative practice / field trips / real world explorations);
- ensure, in all cases, clear communication to all students is provided which details all teaching, learning and assessment expectations to support students to manage their learning journey.