Challenge 1: Creating Learning Environments That Promote Active Learning and Knowledge Creation

Session Details

Facilitator(s)

• Malcolm B. Brown, Director of ELI, EDUCAUSE
• Session convener: Marilyn J. Puchalski, Professor, Teaching and Learning Technologies, Bucks County Community College

Abstract

What types of learning environments foster active learning and knowledge creation? How do we build classroom ecologies that encourage students to think critically and work together?

Join your colleagues in this interactive, discussion-based learning circle to begin brainstorming solutions and sharing institutional approaches to "Creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation," one of the top-five challenges facing teaching and learning with IT identified through the EDUCAUSE Top Teaching and Learning Challenges project (www.educause.edu/eli/challenges).