How have you found the balance of passive and active learning in this course for your learning? How does it compare to your experience in other courses?
Prior to this course starting up, I had my doubts about how much I’m able to learn. This is because the course is an asynchronous class which allows students to work whenever they are available to do so. This is a fairly recent and new method of learning for me, which might make it a little more difficult to learn to content in the course. The initial few weeks was for me to get used to the rhythm of the class and how to properly learn the presented information. It started out more difficult than I imagined because there was more passive learning than active learning required. Later into the course, we’ve began to see more and more active work which required me to spend a little more time to complete. By now, I’ve managed to find a decent balance of active and passive learning and this is from the help of reviewing the presented information, asking and creating conversations with my group, applying my passive and active learning knowledge to blogs, and working together with my group of larger assignments. In terms of passive learning, there has been a lot of information to absorb, whereas active learning, there has been a lot of thinking in how to apply my absorbed knowledge to be presented. In terms of some other classes, many professors often weighs in more on one side. This means the courses becomes heavily active learning, or heavily passive learning. I find it actually difficult to learn if it is heavily passive learning as the information presented is dull and may not be well absorbed. This is why it’s important to have a mix of both for the student to both absorb and analyze the information being presented. Allowing for further critical thinking can improve a students understanding of the subject.
Hey Thomas!
Thanks for sharing your post! I also found that most of the time a class is either highly active participation or highly passive learning. I was wondering how you found the balance of active and passive learning in this course. Would love to hear some strategies from you! Do you think there is a way for passive learning to still be engaging for students?
Hi Thomas – Thank you for sharing your active and passive learning experience for this course! I agree that when there is more passive learning, it is a little bit difficult to figure out the main point, especially while reading an article with so many words. However, combined with active learning, I found that passive learning is also effective for catching more detail. For your example of more professors often weight on one side, how will you overcome this problem by demonstrating personal active learning strategies?
Hey Thomas,
I really enjoyed your blog and how you discussed your personal experiences with passive learning and active learning in different courses. In regards to your experience of passive learning, how can you modify a course with more passive learning than actively learning? What are some active learning strategies that you would implement to counterbalance the ratio of active and passive learning.