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Active learning

Here are entered works on any learning or teaching situation which is characterized by active participation on the part of the learner, as opposed to passive learning from listening or observing.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

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• Active learning -- United States
• Practicums
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• Activity learning
• Activity teaching

• Science for All Children: A Guide to Improving Elementary Science Education in Your School District (1997), by National Science Resources Center (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Science for All Children: A Guide to Improving Elementary Science Education in Your School District (1997), by National Science Resources Center (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Student Teaching Today: A Survey Report of Selected Aspects of Student Teaching (AACTE Study Series #5; Washington: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 1960), by Asahel D. Woodruff (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Homes of the Freed (New York: New Republic, 1926), by Rossa B. Cooley, contrib. by J. H. Dillard, illust. by Julius J. Lankes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Combining Service and Learning in Higher Education: Evaluation of the Learn and Serve America Higher Education Program, by Maryann Jacobi Gray, Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje, Ronald D. Fricker, Sandy A. Geschwind, Charles A. Goldman, Tessa Kaganoff, Abby E. Robyn, Melora Sundt, Lori Vogelgesang, and Stephen P. Klein (PDF files at rand.org)

• Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Human Ecology in the Arctic (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2009), by Karim-Aly S. Kassam (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production (Cambridge, MA and London; et al: MIT Press, 2018), by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Creating the Future: Perspectives on Educational Change (c2002), ed. by Dee Dickinson (HTML at jhu.edu)
• Toward a New Science of Instruction (1993), by Kate Maloy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Only Connect: Discovery Pathways, Library Explorations and the Information Adventure (Lepton: Innovative Libraries, 2013), ed. by Andrew Walsh and Emma Coonan (PDF and Epub with commentary in the UK)
• Thinking and Writing in College: A Naturalistic Study of Students in Four Disciplines (c1990), by Barbara E. Fassler Walvoord and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, contrib. by Virginia Johnson Anderson, John R. Breihan, Susan Robison, and A. Kimbrough Sherman (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

• Reviewing the Behavioral Science Knowledge Base on Technology Transfer, ed. by Thomas E. Backer, Susan L. David, and Gerald Soucy (PDF at NIH)
• Behavioral Analysis and Treatment of Substance Abuse, ed. by Norman A. Krasnegor (PDF at NIH)

• Learning at Not-School: A Review of Study, Theory, and Advocacy for Education in Non-Formal Settings (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2013), by Julian Sefton-Green (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• The King's Sons, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by T. H. Robinson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Don't Give Up, Josephine!, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Journal of Information, Information Technology, and Organizations (JIITO) (2006-) (full serial archives)

• The Advancement of Learning, by Francis Bacon, ed. by Hartmut Krech and William Aldis Wright (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• The Advancement of Learning (London: Cassell, 1893), by Francis Bacon (Gutenberg text)

• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (expanded paperback edition, c2000), ed. by John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking (illustrated HTML and page images at NAP)
• Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning With New Media (10th anniversary edition; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), by Mizuko Itō, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martinez, C. J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning With New Media (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Mizuko Itō, Sonja Baumer, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martinez, C. J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Living and Learning With New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2009), by Mizuko Itō, Heather A. Horst, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C. J. Pascoe, and Laura Robinson, contrib. by Sonja Baumer, Rachel Cody, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martinez, Dan Perkel, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Self-Directed Multimodal Learning in Higher Education (Cape Town: AOSIS Books, 2020), ed. by J. A. K. Olivier (PDF with commentary in South Africa)
• Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry, by Norman D. Vaughan, Martha Cleveland-Innes, and D. R. Garrison (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning (second edition; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2018), ed. by Kathryn Kennedy and Richard E. Ferdig (PDF at CMU)
• Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2014), ed. by Richard E. Ferdig and Kathryn Kennedy (PDF at CMU)

• Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017), by Angela D. Friederici, contrib. by Noam Chomsky (PDF files at MIT Press)

• Education and Learning to Think, by Lauren B. Resnick (page images with commentary at NAP)

• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (expanded paperback edition, c2000), ed. by John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking (illustrated HTML and page images at NAP)
• The Fundamentals of Learning (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1932), by Edward L. Thorndike and Columbia University Teachers College Institute of Psychological Research
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Learning, Remembering, Believing: Enhancing Human Performance, ed. by Daniel Druckman and Robert A. Bjork (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Positive Trends in Learning: Meeting the Needs of a Rapidly Changing World, by Dee Dickinson (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology, by Hermann Ebbinghaus, trans. by Henry A. Ruger and Clara E. Bussenius (HTML at York)

• Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: Psycholinguistic and Anthropological Linguistic Analyses of Tales Told by Trobriand Children and Adults (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2015), by Gunter Senft (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification: Joint Hearing Before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, August 3, 1977 (Washington: GPO, 1977), by United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and United States Senate Committee on Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• Miss Minerva and William Green Hill, by Frances Boyd Calhoun (Gutenberg text)

• Behavioral Intervention Techniques in Drug Abuse Treatment, ed. by John Grabowski, Maxine L. Stitzer, and Jack E. Henningfield (PDF at NIH)

• The ADHD Book: Living Right Now! (scroll down for the free version, in HTML chapters), by Martin L. Kutscher (illustrated HTML with commentary at pediatricneurology.com)

• Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness: What Caregivers Need to Know (Vancouver: BCCampus, c2015), by Sherri Melrose, Debra Dusome, John Simpson, Cheryl Crocker, and Elizabeth Athens (multiple formats with commentary at opentextbc.ca)

• Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment (2001), by National Research Council Center for Education, ed. by James W. Pellegrino, Naomi Chudowsky, and Robert Glaser (page images and HTML at NAP)

• Behavioral Pharmacology of Human Drug Dependence, ed. by Travis Thompson and Chris E. Johanson (PDF at NIH)

• Constructivist Blended Learning Approach to Teaching English for Specific Purposes (c2012), by Oleg Tarnopolsky (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)
• Coming to Terms: Theorizing Writing Assessment in Composition Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Patricia Lynne (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Scientific Illiteracy: Causes, Costs, and Cures (ILR reprints #641 (originally appeared in The Year in School Science); 1989), by John H. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Value of Praise and Reproof as Incentives for Children (Columbia University dissertation, reprinted from Archives of Psychology #71; 1924), by Elizabeth B. Hurlock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Open: The Philosophy and Practices That are Revolutionizing Education and Science (London: Ubiquity Press, 2017), ed. by Rajiv Jhangiani and Robert Biswas-Diener (multiple formats wth commentary at Ubiquity Press)
• Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), by Lucy Montgomery, John Hartley, Cameron Neylon, Malcolm Gillies, Eve Horwitz Gray, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Chun-Kai Huang, Joan Leach, Jason Potts, Xiang Ren, Katherine Skinner, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, and Katie Wilson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• At a Tipping Point: Education, Learning and Libraries (Dublin, OH: OCLC, c2014), contrib. by Cathy De Rosa, Joanne Cantrell, Margaret Gallagher, Janet Hawk, Irene Hoffman, Renée Page, Lorraine J. Haricombe, and Deb Wallace (PDF at oclc.org)
• Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge (2008), ed. by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Governance Through Social Learning (c1999), by Gilles Paquet (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.