Active classrooms, active learning
With various ongoing projects and 17 state-of-the-art, multiscreen classrooms—including the construction of a new research space in River’s Crossing—the College of Education is home to the most active learning classrooms on campus at the University of Georgia.
Over the past four years, the College of Education has redesigned and incorporated various classroom technologies in both Aderhold Hall and River’s Crossing to enhance student engagement and provide faculty the flexibility to focus on applying innovative and effective teaching methods.
“Virtually every one of our classrooms is active in the sense that a professor can lecture, but students may also break out into groups to work on a project or look at a question more closely,” said Ralph Knapp, director of the Office of Information Technology in the College of Education. “As a recruiting tool, we have more opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty to implement high-tech, active-learning pedagogies than anywhere else in the country.”