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Pros and Cons of Active Learning
Author(s) -
Chakraborty Tandra R.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.30.1_supplement.776.27
Subject(s) - socrates , grading (engineering) , active learning (machine learning) , presentation (obstetrics) , class (philosophy) , mathematics education , cons , accountability , cooperative learning , peer assessment , pedagogy , psychology , computer science , teaching method , engineering , artificial intelligence , political science , epistemology , medicine , philosophy , programming language , civil engineering , law , radiology
Teaching is an art and can be done in various ways. I am a strong believer of traditional teaching technique (class lecture and Socrates method of testing student learning) but integrating active, cooperative and collaborative learning alongside makes the learning experience of students fun and memorable. Some of the active learning strategies that I find most beneficial are, formal debate, role playing (dramatic presentation, using technology), group work, clarification pauses, and documentary movies related to the topic of interest, peer survey's and flip the classroom. Although the benefits of these teaching strategies are many there are some difficulties that come with it like time and material covered in class is less, lack of individual accountability, difficulty in grading, designing of activity that fits the course.