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	ACTIVE LEARNING
		Many college teachers today want to move past passive learning to active learning, to find better ways of engaging students in the learning process.
		Each of the four modes of learning has its own value, and just using more of them should add variety and thereby be more interesting for the learner.
		Alternatively, advocates of Problem-Based Learning would suggest that a teacher start with "Doing" by posing a real problem for students to work on, and then having students consult with each other (Dialogue with Others) on how best to proceed in order to find a solution to the problem.
	honolulu.hawaii.edu /intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/active.htm (1246 words)

	JVME v21n1: From Teaching to Learning: Part III. Lectures and Approaches to Active Learning
		We have also examined the need to actively involve students in the educational process and believe that the benefits to students include an increased ability to utilize the cognitive skills of objectivity, creative thinking, judgment, interpretation, and problem solving while enhancing their affective behaviors.
		First, and perhaps most important, the faculty member must take the time to examine the principles and concepts upon which active learning techniques are based, and reflect upon his or her role as a teacher (3).
		The technique is assumed to help emphasize the learning process by placing students in the position of having to recognize the limits of their knowledge, and hopefully, motivating them to learn.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/JVME/V21-1/Seeler1.html (4741 words)

	Active learning -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Active learning involves (The cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message) reading, (The work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect)) writing, discussion, and engagement in solving problems, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
		For example, several studies have shown that students prefer strategies that promote active learning rather than (additional info and facts about traditional) traditional lectures.
		Further, some cognitive research has shown that a significant number of individuals have learning styles best served by (additional info and facts about pedagogical) pedagogical techniques other than lecturing.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ac/active_learning.htm (1094 words)

	Active Learning - All About All findings (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Problem-based learning (PBL) is a didactic concept of "active learning" in tertiary education, but is currently being adpted for use in K-12 education.
		The defining characteristics of PBL are: (a) learning is driven by messy, open-ended problems, (b) students work in small collaborative groups, and c)teachers are facilitators of learning.
		Activity theory is a Soviet psychological theory invented by Alexei Nikolaevich Leontyev, which became one of the major psychological theories in that country, being used widely in areassuch as the education of disabled children and the design of equipment control panels.
	www.allaboutall.info /search/Active%20Learning (654 words)

	Active learning at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Active learning puts the responsibility of organizing what is to be...
		It is therefore important to know the nature of active learning, the empirical research on its use, the common obstacles...
		Active Learning Centre is a compilation of self-assessment tests/databases in...
	www.springknow.com /Active_learning.html (1493 words)

	A Place of Our Own: Active Learning
		Active learning is a method that can help you better focus on and remember important information.
		Learn to ask the right questions, get answers and adapt them to your practices more easily.
		Learn what resources are available to help you become more professional.
	www.aplaceofourown.org /active_learning.php (193 words)

	Course Road Maps ~ Clark University
		And along the way you can learn what students and their professors think about their courses by watching and reading interviews with them.
		Government and international relations professor Beverly Grier examines the relationship between childhood, children's labor and the state in Zimbabwe before and after European colonization.
		In professors Gino DiIorio's and Virginia "Ginger" Vaughan's course "Shakespeare From Page to Stage," theater and English students have the opportunity to switch academic roles—theater students learn literary and historical analysis of some of Shakespeare great plays while English majors learn to perform them.
	www.clarku.edu /activelearning.cfm (503 words)

	active learning in TutorGig Encyclopedia
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	www.tutorgig.com /ed/active_learning (1325 words)

	Discovering the Biblical Value of Human Life: A High-School Tanakh Lesson, utilizing Active Learning \ Moshe Sokolow
		The National Center for Research on Teacher Learning (NCRTL), located at the college of Education, Michigan State University, was established by the US office of Education to examine various approaches to teacher education.
		The challenge is to demonstrate that there are other levels of significant meaning in the text beyond the familiar, to stimulate them to reveal the additional layers of meaning through their own initiatives, and to impress them with the diversity which inheres in traditional exegesis in spite of its integral fidelity to the text.
		The fundamental pedagogical proposition, herein, is that the active study of Biblical texts provides precisely those opportunities for the clarification of identity and values which Elkind recommends.
	www.daat.ac.il /daat/english/ten-daat/sokolow-1.htm (5175 words)

	IT Training Philippines - Active Learning
		Active Learning is the only Zend Approved Training Partner in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.
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	www.activelearning.ph (56 words)

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