Active Learning Overview

MIT 5.95J Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering, Fall 2015
View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu/5-95JF15
Instructor: Janet Rankin
In this video, Janet Rankin describes active learning and how she introduces this concept to students who may not have had active learning experiences prior to taking the course.
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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[@hdl5905]

The explaining why part is really cool, I wish more teachers would understand that nuance so I don't just feel like I am doing things for a grade/diploma.

[@uranus.tlatoani]

In this "new" ideas, there are a booby trap, you can't learn nothing if you are in Hard Sciences.

[@dr.dipakkumarsahoo6950]

Natural and passionate teachers have been using TPS instinctively much much before we created this terminology explicitly. Well this explicit strategy is necessary who choose teaching as a profession rather than a passion.

[@plung3r]

What is TPS?

[@jondyason336]

thank you. This is a very nice explanation.

[@uranus.tlatoani]

It's incredible, that thos "Teacher" don't understood that not all the learning is the same, you can not teach in the same way Mathematis, Art or Literature, Active Learbning is long ago into the structure of the Mathematics, in the exercises section, but always is a individual experience, it's very different to learn a social discipline.

[@mohammadtawfiq7574]

I am just here to do my homework :). You are not gonna find anything in the comments :) you have to listen to her what she is saying :)

[@huntermitchell8927]

I really like lectures. It is the best way I have found to learn. I think there is an important role for the student to be focused and pay attention to the lecture.

[@uranus.tlatoani]

You say all men!

[@LocusLearning]

as long as you limit the lecture to 20 minutes

[@ohenegladson3118]

Thanks for the enlightenment

[@odiljonatabaev]

I'm here because the link to this video provided in the Change Academy project meeting. But I found it interesting

[@Camcolito]

F active learning. This is an absolute tyranny in education at this stage. For all the box-ticking re inclusivity, if you learn best by going to read the material on your own and/or taking notes during lectures, tough luck for you. No, you need to roleplay and jump around like an idiot and "get to know" people you don't care about and will never see again.