Documentation:CTLT Resources/Webliography Active Learning

Brain-Based Learning

Brain-Based (Compatible) Learning - Teacher Tap
Brief and simply written introduction to brain-based learning. Lists other web links.

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic70.htm

Brain-Compatible Learning - Teacher Development Network
Lists other web links to visit for more information (some links don’t work).

http://ozpk.tripod.com/brain.html

eSTEP Project - University of Wisconsin
Research group studying how to support learning science instruction for secondary education.

http://estep.wceruw.org

Using Groups in Classes & Encouraging Study Groups - University of California, Berkeley
From the book Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis.

http://teaching.berkeley.edu/using-groups-classes-encouraging-study-groups

How Does Collaborative Learning Actually Work in a Classroom and How Do Students React to it? A Brief Reflection (PDF)
Short text in which the author expands on his ideas about Collaborative Learning and how it has affected his work as a teacher of advanced English at one of Mexico’s most prestigious private colleges.
The author addresses two main points:
1. What is Collaborative Learning?
2. How can it be used productively?”
http://wiki.ubc.ca/File:Collaborative.pdf

Constructivist Learning Design - George W. Gagnon, Jr. and Michelle Collay
This paper represents a collaborative effort of two teacher educators to articulate a constructivist approach to ‘designing for learning’ rather than planning for teaching.

http://www.prainbow.com/cld/cldp.html

Publications on Cooperative Learning
Publications about the use of active and cooperative instructional methods in college science and engineering courses. Links to active/cooperative learning websites.

http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Student-Centered.html#Publications-Coop

Ted’s Cooperative Learning and WAC Website
This site contains a lot of information on cooperative learning, including a complete e-book. Links to other teaching and learning tools can also been found.

http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz

Critical Thinking - teAchnology
Lists websites pertaining to critical thinking.

http://www.teach-nology.com/currenttrends/critical_thinking

The Thinking Classroom - Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
The Thinking Classroom by Harvard Project Zero is all about the teaching of critical and creative thinking. Here you can find downloadable sample lessons, units, and activities for cultivating thinking.

http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/thinking/index.cfm

Electronic Portfolios as Digital Stories of Deep Learning
This paper “discusses the concepts of ‘Electronic Portfolios as Digital Stories of Deep Learning’ and ‘Digital Storytelling as Reflective Portfolio’ by linking two dynamic processes to promote deep learning: Portfolio Development and Digital Storytelling.”

http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/epstory.html

Encouraging Deep Learning - Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, National University of Singapore
Overview of research conducted when a survey about learning motives and strategies was conducted among 350 students in a cross-faculty module of General Biology.

http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/link/mar2004/learn1.htm

David A. Kolb on Experiential Learning - infed (the informal education)
Sets out Kolb’s model and examines its possibilities and problems.

http://infed.org/mobi/david-a-kolb-on-experiential-learning

Experiential Learning on the Web - Tim Pickles
"This article aims to help the reader explore the development of experiential learning from its original proposal into some of its current refinements and applications today, using the World Wide Web (the Internet) as a vast reference library.” This site also presents critiques, made from various perspectives, of Kolb’s theory of experiential learning.

http://reviewing.co.uk/research/experiential.learning.htm#1

The Experiential Learning Cycle
Diagrammatic representations and brief overviews provided under the following categories: experiential learning styles, forms of knowledge and the learning cycle, elaborations of the experiential learning cycle, and the Kolb Model and subject disciplines.

http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/experience.htm

Problem-Based Learning - University of Delaware
Links to articles, books, conferences, sample PBL problems, sample courses and syllabi, and other PBL sites.

http://www.udel.edu/inst

PBL Directory
“Contains brief information about how PBL is managed by various departments and different disciplines, in many countries, in order to facilitate international collaboration in Problem-Based Learning.”

http://feedback.bton.ac.uk/pbl/pbldirectory/index.php