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The Eberly Center already provides feedback on teaching and learning through observations and early course feedback services. The active learning classroom expands these services by enabling us to conduct video observations e.g., related to your teaching, classroom activities, technology use, and more. For example, do you want to implement or refine your active learning approaches? Early Course Feedback and Video/Classroom Observation services provide unique insights about student and instructor behaviors that were previously unavailable. And Eberly colleagues are available to support you in viewing and interpreting recordings of class meetings.

This classroom offers flexible furniture and various technologies, including large interactive monitors for collaborative student use, movable whiteboards, document cameras, and video conferencing capabilities. If you’d like to explore creative uses of these features, we will help you with designing and assessing your new instructional classroom activities.

Many instructors want to incorporate a technology tool in their course, but they don’t know how well it may work, especially on the first try. Other instructions have built their own technology tool and want to test it in the context of a real course. In either case, the active learning classroom enables audio and video recordings that can be useful as you pilot a new technology tool and seek to assess its use and effectiveness in your course. Our Learning Engineers are also available to consult on its effective use and to help you with getting it set up for smooth interactions.

The active learning classroom may be a good option for conducting classroom research. For example, an instructor might want to test whether a teaching approach improves learning. The advantage of conducting research in these rooms is the ability to flexibly implement different versions of the instructional intervention and collect data regarding what approach works best for student learning, with the support of Eberly colleagues.