Resources: Active learning
9 resources found for "Active learning"
- Fostering creative thinking : co-constructed insights from neuroscience and education
- This report was written by Paul Howard-Jones of the University of Bristol and published by ESCalate. It looks at the role of creativity in the educational process as part of a project, funded by ESCalate, that "aimed to develop the reflective capability of trainee drama teachers regarding the fostering of creative thinking through enhancing awareness of the underlying cognitive and neurocognitive processes". It is presented as a PDF file of some...
- Balancing the demands of in-school placement with out-of-school study
- The affordances of mobile technologies are blurring the time and space constraints placed upon students studying at a distance. This study explores how to scaffold critical learning and document the ‘invisible’ struggles that education students face when expected to write their postgraduate research project while on placement within their schools. Students will make individual film diaries using flip-cams
- Example scenarios
- This resource is part of the ESCalate Help Directory for Teacher Educators and covers some scenarios for the use of Problem Based Learning from Alastair McPhee from the University of Glasgow. They include Effective learning environment scenario, Gender scenario, Challenging behaviour scenario, Motivation and self efficacy scenario, Theories of learning scenario. They are presented as a series of Word documents
- Fostering creative thinking : co-constructed insights from neuroscience and education
- This report was written by Paul Howard-Jones of the University of Bristol and published by ESCalate. It looks at the role of creativity in the educational process as part of a project, funded by ESCalate, that "aimed to develop the reflective capability of trainee drama teachers regarding the fostering of creative thinking through enhancing awareness of the underlying cognitive and neurocognitive processes". It is presented as a PDF file of some...
- Higher Education Academy first year experience action set
- This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 15, autumn 2009 by Karen Fitzgibbon. Karen offers an insight into the way Higher Education Academy Wales has engaged with HEIs to develop research strategies which have delivered solutions and suggestions for practice designed to address one of the most important issues in the higher education student experience: the first year. It also includes supporting articles
- Learning dialogues
- This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 18, autumn 2010 by John Butcher of the University of Northampton. It reports on the third University of Northampton learning and teaching conference. The theme of the conference was to share ideas around the importance of learning dialogues in Higher Education
- Aaron Porter : Keynote speech from 2nd annual ESCalate student conference students as stakeholders : take an active part in your own learning
- Short video of extracts from Aaron Porter (NUS President) Keynote speech from the ESCalate event 2nd Annual ESCalate Student Conference Students as Stakeholders: take an active part in your own learning, 16 April 2010. Also an audio version synched with the presentation slides
- Learner-centredness and the class of 130
- This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 11, summer 2008. Dr Jenny Moon writes about how her Teaching Fellow award helped her to travel to Tanzania and take part in an Oxfam project (EQUIP). She worked on a Primary School project in rural Tanzania for three weeks, mainly helping the local project workers to structure the documentation of the project in order to promote its uptake in other areas of the country. The focus of the...
- Studying literary texts: The learning process
- Article which examines a module for undergraduates in education, looking at teaching and learning through literature; the module was also aimed at active learning