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‘You Told the Students?’: Experts’ Views on Design and Measurement of Active Learning in Higher Education

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The higher education sector is constantly pivoting towards innovation and adopting new strategies to improve education delivery. Active learning is at the centre of various teaching approaches that focus on the increasing participation of the students in their own learning process. While it is becoming a widespread strategy in higher education, its adoption remains limited and it continues to be surrounded by some uncertainty, in particular at the level of its design and effectiveness. This paper aims to examine the viewpoints of university lecturers with concern to active learning′s design and instructional impact measurement, which were collected in a two-phase research strategy combining an online questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The findings portray active learning as a valuable teaching strategy and enable the proposition of an assortment of design guidelines, as well as recommendations for measuring the instructional impact of active learning initiatives that can contribute to a more fruitful implementation.

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  1. University of New South Wales (UNSW – Sydney), Sydney, Australia

    Pedro Isaias

  2. Universidade Aberta–Portuguese Open University, Lisbon, Portugal

    Pedro Isaias

  3. Setubal School of Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Setúbal, Portugal

    Paula Miranda

  4. ISRLab – Information Society Research Laboratory, Lisbon, Portugal

    Sara Pifano

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Isaias, P., Miranda, P., Pifano, S. (2025). ‘You Told the Students?’: Experts’ Views on Design and Measurement of Active Learning in Higher Education. In: Smith, B.K., Borge, M. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies. HCII 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15806. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93564-0_13

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