{"id":14898,"date":"2011-02-09T10:16:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=14898"},"modified":"2011-02-09T10:20:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:20:52","slug":"defining-active-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/02\/09\/defining-active-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Active Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defining Active Learning<\/a> –<\/strong>– from Faculty Focus by Maryellen Weimer, PhD<\/p>\n

Greenwood defines active learning as \u201cThe process of having students engage in some activity that forces them to reflect upon ideas and how they are using those ideas. Requiring students to regularly assess their own degree of understanding and skill at handling concepts or problems in a particular discipline. The attainment of knowledge by participating or contributing. The process of keeping students mentally, and often physically, active in their learning through activities that involve them in gathering information, thinking and problem solving.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not proposing this as the \u201cright\u201d \u201cbest\u201d or \u201conly\u201d definition for active learning, but I am proposing that it\u2019s a good deal more specific than most of us would offer. Now, if we sat down and thought about active learning, if we talked about it with colleagues, I\u2019m pretty sure that the definitions we\u2019d develop would rival this one. But my point is we can regularly use terms like this without having done that careful thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defining Active Learning –– from Faculty Focus by Maryellen Weimer, PhD Greenwood defines active learning as \u201cThe process of having students engage in some activity that forces them to reflect upon ideas and how they are using those ideas. Requiring students to regularly assess their own degree of understanding and skill at handling concepts or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[472],"tags":[789],"class_list":["post-14898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-learning","tag-active-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14900,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898\/revisions\/14900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}