Elevating the Level of Learning
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Daniel Bonevac
Dept. of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
Tips
Students engage in active learning by attending to relevant incoming information, organizing selected information into coherent mental representations, and integrating mental representations with other knowledge (Mayer, 1999).
- Use BB to layout the structure of your course and present different ways of looking at problems
- Spend more time on explaining connections instead of details
Related Resources
Mayer, R.E.(1999). The promise of educational psychology. Upper Saddle River, NJ:Prentice Hall/Merrill.
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