Montana State University

Faculty Development Center


Marilyn Lockhart

Interim Director of Faculty Development
318 Montana Hall
(406) 994-4555
lockhart@montana.edu

Anne Angermeyr

Program Coordinator
212 Montana Hall
(406) 994-7136
annea@montana.edu

Active Learning Links

What are Non-traditional Teaching & Learning Techniques and Why Use Them?
Non-Traditional Teaching & Learning Strategies

Charles Bonwell's Active Learning Site This site supports the scholarship of teaching by providing research based resources designed to help faculty use active learning successfully in college and university classrooms. Active learning  involves putting our students in situations which compel them to read, speak, listen, think deeply, and write. Active learning puts the responsibility of organizing what is to be learned in the hands of the learners themselves, and ideally lends itself to a more diverse range of learning styles.

Some Thoughts About Webquests A Webquest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing. This site provides exhaustive information on all aspects of WebQuests, and the relationship with traditional active learning.

Hypermedia and Communication For Active Learning  The project develops interactive, hypertext based study material for courses in information systems design and databases. The project also develops a methodology for integrating this type of study material in  coursework.