Active learning
Active learning
How do you actively engage your students in your teaching? This is what the theme Active learning is all about. On this page, you can read more about what active learning entails and how to apply it in your own teaching. Find practical examples from colleagues and benefit from practical tools such as the e-book Interactive Teaching Techniques or the UvA Active learning card set (including 30 different techniques!).
Below you can find articles from the TLC network about Active learning. Also view the other didactic themes.
How to apply active learning in your teaching?
Active Learning fosters the development of certain skills, an inclusive learning environment and deep understanding by including interaction and reflection with the content and collaboration between students. Incorporating Active Learning into existing courses does not require a complete course redesign, but there are some important factors to consider for it to be a meaningful inclusion in your course.
Active Learning strategies for lectures
Activating your students in larger groups such as lectures can feel challenging. However, there are many different pedagogical strategies you can apply to support Active Learning and assist in keeping all students actively involved, regardless of group size. Below you will find some strategies for incorporating Active Learning in your lectures.
Active Learning strategies in the classroom
While there are some general principles to take into account when implementing Active Learning, different environments and group sizes require different considerations to select the most appropriate strategy to achieve your learning goal.
What is active learning?
Active Learning is about the variety of teaching methods offered to students that require them to actively contribute to the learning process. It goes beyond the passive transmission of knowledge and seeks to actively engage the mind, encouraging students to think critically.
Activerend onderwijs geven aan grote werkgroepen: 5 tips voor docenten
We herkennen de uitdaging. Je wil graag je studenten activeren tijdens werkgroepen, maar je loopt tegen beperkingen aan wanneer de groepsgrootte toeneemt.
Hoewel het een uitdaging zal blijven, hebben we vier tips om studenten óók bij grotere groepen te activeren.
Active Learning: Engaging Students Through Active Learning
Active learning, however, enables students to take control of their education.
Active learning applied with the UvA card set
How do you actively involve your students in your teaching? The network of Teaching & Learning Centres (TLC) developed a new support tool that can help with this: the UvA card set.
Best practices of knowledge sharing among students from diverse backgrounds
A search by Dr. Lela Mosemghvdlishvili with the UvA TLC Didactic Innovation grant. How can we train students from different backgrounds and majors to share their disciplinary knowledge in an accessible way? Dr. Lela Mosemghvdlishvili (they/them) used the grant to explore the best practices of knowledge sharing among students from different disciplinary and methodological backgrounds.
Social interaction is even more important in online education and learning
Leer van de ervaring en expertise van dr. Jaap Schuitema over sociale interactie in het onderwijs.
Guiding discussions
Learn about methods to stimulate discussion and what you can do to keep students engaged in discussion.
Active Learning
