Active Learning Fundamentals

Course Description

This digital course called Active Learning Fundamentals will introduce you to the power of active learning. You will learn ways to engage your students in class and help them take charge of their learning.

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of this digital course, you will be able to:

• Summarize research demonstrating the impact of active learning on student learning.
• Identify specific strategies to engage students as active participants in their learning.
• Design at least one specific active learning strategy and implement it in your course.

Content

1. Why Use Active Learning?
2. Peer Discussion
3. Practice Questions
4. More Active Learning Strategies
5. Implementing Active Learning

Expectations

This digital course consists of 5 lessons, which altogether will take approximately 60 minutes to complete. Additional resources or tips for further exploration are provided at the end of each lesson. Each lesson culminates in a knowledge check to confirm what you have learned and to enable you to move on to the next lesson.

Intended Audience

UMD faculty, staff, and graduate students

Digital Badge

By completing this course, you will earn your Active Learning Fundamentals micro-credential. To receive recognition for your efforts, simply explore each page and tackle all knowledge checks within this course.

This badge is an exciting step towards earning your Active Learning Practitioner meta-credential from the TLTC’s Teaching Academy.