Active Learning Research
These
Research Summaries on active learning may be helpful to you when justifying an active learning approach. One of the summaries says basically that if you lecture 6 minutes less in a session and substitute an activity you can increase learning by a dramatic amount. Impressive, but then if your reading this you probably know this already. By Dr. Charles Bonwell at
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