Danielle Lemmon, PhD Candidate, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Julian Gifford, PhD Student, Department of Physics

“Active Learning Increases Student Performance in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics” Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2014) Freeman, Scott, Sarah L. Eddy, Miles McDonough, et. al

Freeman's (2014) article on active student learning has influenced the way students learn and teachers teach in higher education. Lemmon and Gifford will discuss this article and others associated with the concept in order to show how it can be applied to the classroom.

Link to article: http://www.pnas.org.colorado.idm.oclc.org/content/pnas/111/23/8410.full.pdf