What is
Engaged Learning? Engaged Learning is a simple concept. Instructors practice the teaching method with preschoolers in the home and doctoral candidates in universities. The method injects the student so intensely into the learning process that a passionate transformation takes place. The learner becomes committed to the subject and assumes the responsibility for learning it. Engaged Learning, however, often needs outside stimuli. Occasionally a great orator can ignite passion in some learners. But how do instructors insert that same passion into the majority of students throughout their college experience? Educators’ commitment, concerted effort and openness to innovative teaching methods can make all the difference. That commitment is evident at Georgia College, cited by U.S. News and World Report as among the universities with “A Strong Commitment to Teaching.” For several years Georgia College has fostered a faculty collaborative, Intensive Course-Building Group, to investigate new pedagogical techniques to engage students in high-impact learning. The university recently sponsored a series of interactive learning workshops that enjoyed oversubscribed participation by more than one-fourth of the faculty. As a result, faculty members implemented four teaching methods to engage students: • Problem-Based Learning • Reacting to the Past-Role Playing • Service Learning • Technology Integration This publication highlights a few of these initiatives at Georgia College. We hope you discover these stories of faculty and students engaged in high-impact teaching and learning strategies as exemplars of learning.
3-D technology is one tool used to create an engaged learning environment at Georgia College.
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