How to Build Active Learning ?

 Provide clear but BROAD boundaries for tasks

 Provide multiple different types of resources for learning

 Integrate thinking, problem solving and practical activities

 Enable various learning styles to reach all learners

 Put students in the driver’s seat to seek information and apply it

 Promote cognitive interaction with others to enable group thinking and development of
products

Think – Pair – Share

 Think-Pair-Share is a short activity designed to engage students in thoughtful consideration

of a topic, and may serve effectively as a warm-up to instruction and class discussion on new
course material. 

 First, students individually think for a few minutes about a question posed by the instructor,
then get together for a short period in groups of two (pair) to four students to discuss their
thoughts, and one or more groups share the results of their discussion with the class.

Jigsaw

 The jigsaw strategy asks a group of students to become “experts” on a specific text or body
of knowledge and then share that material with another group of students.

 The jigsaw process encourages listening, engagement, and empathy by giving each member
of the group an essential part to play in the academic activity.

 Group members must work together as a team to accomplish a common goal; each person
depends on all the others.

 No student can succeed completely unless everyone works well together as a team. This
"cooperation by design" facilitates interaction among all students in the class, leading them
to value each other as contributors to their common task.

 Case Studies

 A case study is an active learning activity in which students read a pre-defined data set,
scenario or application.

 The case study is accompanied by a list of questions that asks students to reflect on the
information and formulate a response to it. This is an extremely flexible active learning
approach because of the range of possibilities that a case study can take.

 Cases are frequently used in Business, Health Sciences, Education or Sociology.