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Report
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Abstract
The massification of higher education is now a global phenomenon Huge changes in the teaching and learning milieu within colleges. The forces of massification have brought multiple challenges with regard to pedagogy. What kind of pedagogy to employ? The role of the lecturer is to empower learning and it is challenging and complex. There is a need to employ a pedagogy which requires students to do things, to access information, to solve problems, to reflect on what they are doing and make connections to real world problems.
Educational research has revealed a number of important lessons for educators:
Importance of active and student-centred learning
Importance of developing lifelong learning skills
Importance of learning in context
Students cannon be treated as “empty vessels”
Students construct their own knowledge and understanding
The potential of group learning
Why active learning is to be developed:
Encourage students to adopt a deeper learning approach
Increase student motivation and hence engagement
Achieve all levels of cognitive learning
Allow students to interact with the unknown
Allow students to develop and construct their own understanding based on what they already know
Allow the students to take responsibility and be more independent
Ensure the students are interacting with each other, the tutors and resources.
Recommended Citation
Donnelly, R., Fitzmaurice, M. (2017) Resource Pack on Active Learning. Resource pack prepared in the LTTC, DIT, 2017.
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Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Educational Methods Commons, Higher Education Commons
Publication Details
Resource pack prepared in the LTTC, Technological University Dublin, 2017.