Adults are more engaged and retain more when they are involved in their own learning. Through the following activities, tutors will understand how they learn and how to help learning be an active process. They will examine their own learning from the workshop and suggest other concepts they would like to learn about.
Active Learning Concepts
In Making Meaning, Making Change, Elsa Roberts Auerbach writes, “People learn best when learning starts with what they already know, builds on their strengths, engages them in the learning process and enables them to accomplish something they want to accomplish.”
When a tutor creates the conditions Auerbach names, the learner is no longer passive. He or she has become an active learner.
Why do we want to see adult learners in an active role?