CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES IN ACTIVE LEARNING SPACES

Successful active learning classrooms (ALC), regardless of how many students are in the space, are designed to facilitate interactions between students as they work collaboratively on interesting tasks. Spaces and the furnishings within them are carefully designed with features that enable students to meet the goals of instruction. These goals vary from course to course and institution, but they increasingly include twenty-first century skills like problem solving, communication, use of technology, interpersonal and questioning and teamwork. Moreover, some of the objectives pursued with the ALC are to develop a good functional understanding of the subject, improving attitudes for learning and positive learning experience. Active learning classrooms make it easy for faculty to assign tasks that require students to practice these skills as a means of learning the subject matter [1]. Higher education institutions are increasingly creating large and medium active learning classrooms to replace traditional lecture halls. Although there have been many efforts to examine the effects of those classrooms on learning outcomes, attendance and failure rates, there is paucity of research that can inform the design and implementation process [2]. This is the objective of this paper. The paper has the following structure. First, we explain the PST framework and its application in the different Active learning Classroom Models. Next, we pay attention in the varied active learning methodologies that has been used both in ALC and in cooperative learning approaches.