ACTIVE LEARNING: AN INTRODUCTION *

Richard M. Felder · Rebecca Brent

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It’s been like this since the beginning of the semester and you are getting desperate, so you decide to try something different. You complete your determination of the energy output of a power plant boiler furnace and suddenly say “Suppose they build this exact furnace and the power output is only 380 MW instead of the 550 MW we just calculated. Get into groups of two or three, pick one recorder, and list as many possible reasons as you can think of for the difference, including violations of at least three assumptions in the calculation. I’ll give you one minute and then call on a few of you. Go!” The students quickly get into groups—some waking their neighbors in the process—and go to work. You stop them after about a minute, call randomly on several individuals for responses, get more responses from volunteers, and proceed with your lecture. The whole process takes less than three minutes, during which most or all of your students are awake and actively engaged with the course material. When you later ask them to do something similar on a test, surprisingly many of them can do it.

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