How Students Learn: Strategies for Teaching

from the Psychology of Learning

 

Todd Zakrajsek

Central Michigan University

 

Abundant research demonstrates that learning takes place when the student's mind actively engages in the material. Few individuals talk about WHY active learning works. Within the discipline of human memory,

learning, and cognition exists a vast body of literature dealing specifically with this issue. Participants will leave this workshop with an understanding of the basic concepts in human learning, how to present

information so that students most effectively encode it into long-term memory, how to facilitate students' retrieval of information, how to help students know when they know (metacognition), and how to avoid

common errors that both students and faculty make with respect to learning.