It essentially explains that it is all about students being held accountable for their own learning. We as teachers are here to support the students, however we can only lead them to the water, we can't make them drink it! This is even more pervasive in an online learning environment. Since students are a part of an online environment but are still in their own everyday home environments as well, they are responsible for being active and essentially a 'boss' of their own learning by sharing ideas, collaborating together their peers, writing and reflecting etc.
Students should take an active responsibility with their learning online. The teacher should act as a guide and give support to the student.
I am not a fan of on line learning because I felt like I was a "sage on the stage."
Active learning focuses on giving the students more controll with their learning by getting them more involved in their lessons and with their classmates. The instructor is there for guidence and to encourage deductive reasoning.
Active Learning Environment will help student to get them self to the answers. With F2F they can get bored, and not want to participate in the learning environment. Give them something to do as you are delivering the message and it becomes more engaging.
F2F if you can engage them with or what you are talking about it will keep there attention. Most students are eager to learn the material but not read the book. Making the lecture informative and including them will keep them engaged. Along with F2F I like my students to give me the information and that is where the active learning comes in.
student-centered learning = "become more popular in education in the past ten years".; especially considering the rise of online learning environments
creating online courses takes a significant amount of planning
understanding and implementing active learning techniques in our classrooms is critical
I have been using active learning strategies for the past several years. I plan to continue to use PBL projects, but plan to incorporate more student self-assessments, student self-reflection, and peer-peer (within groups) assessments and reflections. Those are components of active learning that I believer will enhance what I have been doing.
I plan to continue to use PBL projects to have students master the TEKS for the courses I teach, but plan to include more self-assessment activities, more reflection activities, peers in group asessments and reflections. Up to now, my classes have been F2F, but due to covid19, the second half of this school year was online. Preparations for next year will include both and blended formats.
I've have been guilty of being instructor led in my courses and just posting instruction "PowerPoints" online for my online forum. I am willing to become more of an "educational coach" than a instructor driven class. I use some active learning already in my classroom like the gaming with teaching method. I also use problem solving methods in class when working with equipment in class. I will take into coinsideration all the items I've learned from this session to incorporate becoming more of a facilitator in my instruction in the future.
This is also my first time teaching online. I ran into many challenges for both students and instructors. I think it is extremely important that online instructors should facilitate the learning process. Online instructor must provide clear, meaningful guidelines learning activities to help student involve learning topic, problem solving, give students enough time to review and recap.
Concerning Active Learning: the instructor becomes the course facilitator, not just the content lecturer, who guides the students through their educational journey. Educational games or role-playing activity could be a good way for students to grasp the course content, rather than just having a passive note-taking experience.
I agree with Melaine. I like to keep the students active right after I discuss the topic and do a demo of a technique. Getting their chance to have hands on to work with the digital program is very helpful to their journey.
There are two items that have struck a cord with me. They are as follows:
"In any learning environment, there are three components. They include the 1) learner, 2) instructor/facilitator and 3) learning content. The facilitator’s role is to manipulate, mold and direct the student to learn and be exposed to the course content material." In the future, I will try to incorporate or use a facilitator role in my methods of teaching. Although I have incorporate some problem solving methods common to most individuals I will need to make it more student driven.
"Active learning is broadly described as anything a student does in the classroom environment, whether online or F2F, other than passively listening to a lecture. With this broad definition, most things an instructor could do with students in class would be considered active learning." This broad definition has cleared up some misconceptions I have had in the past regarding active learning. We need to look pass the typical lecture style teaching method and use perhaps more of a gaming type method of teaching.
This is my first "emotive response" to these courses so far. This content is so timely in my life! After 36 years of teaching in college and ten online, my recent struggle has been how to use this new medium to its very best and I feel that this is a load of wisdom toward that.
Active learning:
Offer the challenge, and let the students do the work.
Engage.
Call, and elicit response.
Demo, and allow students to ape and evolve.
My takeaway so far:
Guide them into doing what they are there to do. It may look like you're not doing your job as a teacher, but in fact, conducting the orchestra is as big a challenge as playing an instrument. And it's okay to designate time for improv.
I learned that the key difference of collaborative learning and cooperative learning is that students are still individually graded in cooperative learning.
Having grown up with the "sage on the stage" type of learning it will be a challenge to embrace more active learning. However, this will certainly benefit the students who choose to take these kinds of courses as many of them prefer hands-on learning as opposed to a lecture.
Seth Soronadi
That "students should not just come to the instructor for answers but should come to him/her for insight and guidance on their own educational journey. Remember that it is the students’ journey, not the instructor’s" It is something keep in mind as an online instructor.
Active learning is engaged learning. When students sit listening without any yep of participation or engagement learning can not be fully realized. I personally liked how including the development team and even students in course revisions/development was important to ensure active learning.
The biggest thing is the students need to take responsibility for their own learning.
I liked that there is a need for instructors to work closely with instructional designers.
Active learning engaging the students so they teach them self's.
