Active Learning - You Got Questions, We Got Answers - Richard M. Felder, Tomorrow's Professor

Sometimes at the end of a workshop, a participant suffering from information overload asks, "If I want to try just one thing you told us about, what should it be?" My answer is always active learning. For those who came in late, that means engaging students in course-related activities in class other than watching and listening to the instructor. They may be asked to answer a question, begin a problem solution or derivation or figure out the next step, explain a concept, interpret an observation, brainstorm a list, predict the outcome of an experiment, or any of a hundred other things. http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/cgi-bin/tomprof/enewsletter.php?msgno=1309