If you need to train employees, either to teach them a new computer program or to promote them to a higher position, you can teach them using either an active or passive technique. With passive ...

“I wish he would just lecture instead of all this active learning stuff. I just want to sit back and take notes.” I overheard this walking behind two students exiting a large lecture class. The ...

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it has ...

Jim is an associate professor of higher education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Freely available, open education resources provide opportunities for college students to strengthen ...

HOBOKEN, N.J., Feb. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- New AI in active learning research from Pearson (FTSE: PSON.L), the world's lifelong learning company, reveals students using AI study tools embedded in ...

Reading feels like studying. You sit there, eyes moving across the page, maybe even nodding along. It feels calm. Responsible. Like you’re doing the right thing.But here’s the uncomfortable truth.

Active Learning has been referred to as many things, including “project-based learning” and “flipped classes.” The fundamental premise of active learning is the replacement of passive class time with ...

“I wish he would just lecture instead of all this active learning stuff. I just want to sit back and take notes.” I overheard this walking behind two students exiting a large lecture class. The ...

Nearly 80 million student interactions with Pearson digital materials show responsible AI use drives more active reading behaviorsHOBOKEN, N.J., Feb. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- New AI in active ...