Technology Enabled Active Learning integrates technology with active learning strategies to create rich collaborative learning experiences for students. The session discusses lessons learned regarding design and layout, governance structures, and resources to ensure successful instruction and learning in these special learning environments.
What is TEAL?
Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) integrates technology with active learning strategies to create rich collaborative learning experiences for students (Ambrose, et al., 2010; Honeycutt, 2016). In the past 3 years, our institution has opened 4 TEAL classrooms for instructional use. These rooms offer a fundamentally different learning environment from other instructional spaces on campus through room design, integrated technologies, and pedagogical choices available to instructors.
Join us to hear how we are delivering high-impact student-centered instruction using these spaces. This session will include lessons learned on room design, governance structure, and the different resources we've developed to support successful and innovative instruction and learning in these rooms.
What we’ve learned?
Through the pilot testing of our TEAL spaces, we have made some instructive discoveries regarding room design and supporting faculty as they work to transform traditional pedagogical approaches. The focus of our “lessons learned” will be : a) how much technology is really useful in these spaces, b) why certain demographics of students may benefit more than others in these learning environments, and c) how to set faculty up for success in delivering high-impact, student-centered instruction in these classrooms.
References
Ambrose, S. A., Bridges, M. W., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M. C., & Norman, M. K. (2016. How learning works: 7 research-based principles for smart teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Baepler, P., Walker, J.D., Brooks, D.C., Saichaie, K., & Petersen, C. I. (2016).A guide to teaching in the active learning classroom: History, research, and practice. Sterling,VA: Stylus, Inc.
Honeycutt, B. (2016). Flipping the college classroom: Practical advice from faculty. Madison, WI: Magna Publications.