From the course: Learning How to Increase Learner Engagement
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The value of engaged students
From the course: Learning How to Increase Learner Engagement
The value of engaged students
- If lectures aren't effective for learning, what is? The answer is engagement, action, and activity. You need to promote and incorporate activities into your classroom or online environment that encourage learners to engage with the content beyond merely reading it or hearing it. You need to create opportunities where learners talk about the content that you're studying, manipulate the content, and work with it. Learners need to be able to understand and apply the content, not simply memorize it. Active learning changes the learner from a passive vessel that needs to be filled into an engaged participant who crafts her own knowledge through discovery, application, and good old fashioned trial and error. There are four primary reasons why you should use active learning techniques in your classroom or online environment. First, research shows that active learners do better than passive learners. Research has been pretty clear on the value of active learning. In fact, one study showed…
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