This book focuses on selected best practices for effective active learning in Higher Education. Contributors present the epistemology of active learning along w

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For decades, if not more, the pedagogy of choice for higher education was the lecture: students sat quietly in a large classroom, stared at the teacher while th

This monograph examines the nature of active learning at the higher education level, the empirical research on its use, the common obstacles and barriers that g

While Active Learning Classrooms, or ALCs, offer rich new environments for learning, they present many new challenges to faculty because, among other things, th