Active Learning Resources

 

Topic Area

Presentations,

Panel Reports & Key Publications

Articles, Commentary, & Blogs

Assistant Professor, College of the Environment and Life Sciences
The University of Rhode Island

 resources/taking-the-next-steps---dewsbury-resources.pdf

 

Robin Dunkin, Active Learning in Large Lectures

 Link to Video

 

Building a 21st-century teaching center at UCSC

Jody Greene, Director, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning,

 

Academic Excellence (ACE) Program at UCSC: Collaboration to Community

Nancy Cox-Konopelski, 8 March 2018

 

Designing, refining, and assessing CUREs (Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences)

Jordan Moberg Parker, 10 May 2018

 

Using Canvas for Active Learning

Leslie Kern, 9 November 2017 

 

HHMI-UC STEM Faculty Learning Community Online Workshop

Effective Use of Student Response Systems in Large Lecture Halls

March 2017

 

Challenge documents calling for changes in teaching science

BIO2010
PCAST Report Engage to Excel
*AAAS-NSF Vision & Change Report 

 

What is "Active Learning" 
(the "flipped" classroom)?

Colorado SEI Flipping Guide

Chronicle of Higher Ed "Guide to Flipping..."

*NYT article featuring UCDavis effort

Evidence that Active Learning works

Michael, J. 2006

 

Impact of a disadvantaged educational backgrounds on university learning

Course structure impact on URM students

 

Changing the curriculum: What do we want our students to learn to do?

*AAMC-HHMI report on pre-med competencies 
NAS on Convergence

PULSE web site

Testing students understanding of experimental design

DasGupta et al. 2014 

 

Efforts on other campuses

 

iAMSTEM hub at Davis*
*U. Colorado Boulder Science Education Initiative web site

Workshop Materials

 

Colorado Workshop, June 2015