ACTIVE LEARNING Strategies for the Face-to-Face & Online Classroom Rebecca Petersen Director of Faculty Development, Wentworth Institute of Technology Colleges of the Fenway Conference on Teaching & Learning Context: Global Transition Shifting Educational Paradigms Shift + Lock Digital Age Tools + Industrial Age Practices Emerging Paradigm Social Collaborative Engaged Networked Shared Participative Creative Todays Goal: Pathways to Active Learning Brief review of educational theory Examination of blooms taxonomy Identify examples of active learning Discuss challenges Review planning frameworks View examples Reflect and plan next steps for implementation Describe: Active Learning Active Learning Modern Cognitive Theorists Howard Gardner Sir Ken Robinson John Dewey Seymour Papert Lev Vygotsky George Siemens Benjamin Bloom These are just a few of the cognitive theorists that are connected to active learning Benjamin Bloom American Cognitive Psychologist Believes learning is a process Original Taxonomy Published in 1956 Intended as framework to both help formulate objectives and how to evaluate them 21 st Century Taxonomy Center for Teaching Exellence, Iowa State Discuss: Your Goals + Outcomes What are your course activities? How do they map to your outcomes and goals? How are you incorporating higher order thinking opportunities in your courses? If you teach online, are there notable differences in the outcomes? What aspects of Blooms are you reaching with your current assignments? What barriers are you encountering to reach more active engagement? Application: Blooms + Course Design AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT Strategy: Dallas Discuss: Backchanneling + Blooms How does the UT example tap into the Taxonomy? 411: Backchanneling Captures the informal dialogue and questions of students An option to engage students in large class sections directly in the content Empowers students to help and support each other directly Twitter is not the only technology: Private tool options Recent studies on Twitter/Backchanneling: Feedback + Reflection = Next Steps What has been validated for you during this session? What do you want to learn more about? What will you do next? Portland, OR THANK YOU! Rebecca Petersen, ,