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What is Active Learning Techniques

Chapter 296
Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
Techniques where students do more than simply listen to a lecture. Students are doing something, including discovering, processing and applying information. Active learning derives from two basic assumptions: (1) learning is by nature an active endeavor, and (2) different people learn in different ways.
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Systems Model of Educational Processes
Charles E. Beck (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA) and Gary R. Schornack (University of Colorado at Denver, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch296
Abstract
Distance education involves a wide range of elements, including students, instructors, institutions, classroom technology, state agencies and accrediting boards. The educational process model provides a conceptual framework to integrate these diverse elements. The following discussion begins with a brief background on the systems and communication basis of the new model. Then it elaborates the model’s elements, including the inputs (resources and philosophy), purpose (intentions and audiences), methods (technological genre and educational process); integration (pedagogy); outputs (product and interpretation); and assessment (institutional and research).
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Accounting and Finance Students' Perceptions About Active Learning in an Economics-Lecture Classroom
A diverse set of active learning approaches / activities for students to be engaged in more than passive listening and so that more emphasis is placed on higher - level thinking tasks. Examples from the present investigation are: book exercises; case studies; debates; Full - Body Responses (FBR); One - Minute Papers (OMP); quizzes; T - Analyses; videos with questions.
Published in Chapter: Accounting and Finance Students' Perceptions About Active Learning in an Economics-Lecture Classroom; From: Learning Styles and Strategies for Management Students
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