Active Learning

The term “active learning” refers to interactive instructional techniques that engage students in such higher-order thinking tasks as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Students engaged in active learning might use resources beyond the faculty, such as libraries, Web sites, interviews, or focus groups, to obtain information. They may demonstrate their abilities to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate through projects, presentation, experiments, simulations, internships, practicums, independent study projects, peer teaching, role playing, or written documents. Students involved in active learning often organize their work, research information, discuss and explain ideas, observe demonstrations or phenomena, solve problems, and formulate questions of their own. Active learning is often combined with cooperative or collaborative learning in which students work interactively in teams that promote interdependence and individual accountability to accomplish a common goal. In addition, active learning may address multiple intelligences.

See also the definition of "education delivery"

Go to Baldrige Best Practice: Learning and Development

Go to Baldrige Application Information Capture and Response Templates:

• Employee/Staff Listening and Learning Approaches

• Job/Career Development and Learning Mechanisms