I am a huge fan of active learning. I believe that active learning strategies use class time for more than just a transfer of information from the instructor to the students. In active learning classrooms, students get practice at the content as well as other skills that are all about life. That said, I am going to try and post about an active learning style about once a month.
First up is Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL). As a disclaimer, I use a lot of POGIL in my classrooms and have facilitated numerous POGIL workshops in the US and a few in South Africa. Thus, I am a bit biased about this particular model.
