Active Learning Blog

A blended learning environment takes the best parts of technology-based instruction, face-to-face instruction, and hands-on learning experience and combines them into one classroom. This effective way to teach brings many positive outcomes for instructors and students, boosting learning outcomes while creating a positive learning environment. MindShift recommends that instructors use the acronym TRICK when implementing this model into their classrooms.

Technology in the classroom seems cutting-edge, but is it really an effective way to teach students, or are educators simply jumping on board the latest band wagon? The best place to test new teaching technology is in one of the least personal classrooms - the large lecture class on a college campus. In 2013, Associate Professor Brent Stockwell took his 180-student biochemistry class and flipped it. His results, which Campus Technology recently reported, showed the potential for technology in the classroom.