Active learning Approaches

At Duke University, business school students use a state-of-the-art “virtual lecture hall” to have conversations with CEOs and fellow students from around the world.

 

“Technology is enabling and also forcing students, in some ways, to become self-learners,” says Catheryn Cheal, vice president and senior officer of academic technology at San Jose State University. “They’re going to be expected to have a certain amount of learning initiative throughout their career, and that’s different than how it used to be.”

On many campuses, the stale, passive lecture model is being replaced by a more dynamic way of teaching and learning—one in which students collaborate to “make meaning together.”