Friday, April 21, 2017

The Hidden Costs of Active Learning - Thomas Mennell, Campus Technology

Flipped and active learning truly are a better way for students to learn, but they also may be a fast track to instructor burnout. I end every publication and every talk with the catchphrase "I'll never teach another way again," and I mean it. Students learn more deeply, more effectively, and they integrate material much more through a flipped/active learning format than with more traditional, lecture-based instruction. To teach in any other way, to me, seems almost unethical — especially given how much money today's college student spends on his/her education. How could I deliver an inferior product to my students when I know that flipped learning is so much better? That said, there are many days when I wish I'd never heard of flipped learning at all — times when I wish I actually could teach another way again. https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/04/05/the-hidden-costs-of-active-learning.aspx