What is Place-based Learning? Place-based learning is an instructional approach that focuses on developing student’s sense of place and learning through exploring their environment. Thus, most ...

Students participating in an active role improving their communities—for example, through problem-based learning activities—can increase motivation by connecting to “relevance,” and ...

Active Learning Strategies Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than ...

But in Finland, phenomenon-based learning is nonnegotiably interdisciplinary, something that can get left out of projects in the U.S. And it must be driven by students’ own questions about the world, ...

They also want to embed instruction into more situational and problem-based learning activities, tasks such as field experiments. However, to realize its full potential, effective methods for ...

In a systematically designed and controlled experiment conducted in a naturalistic instructional setting, we examined adult students' learning of two concepts. Two intact classes taught by the same ...

In this post, I explore how activity-based learning develops skills and builds collaboration.

An assessment programme could look like a set of assessments of differing formats, such as end-of-unit quizzes, problem-based learning activities and others, taken throughout the year. The first step ...