Team-focused, peer-to-peer, collaborative learning is a successful teaching and learning model that has garnered significant attention from the academic community. This model emphasizes the importance of peer groups and self-directed learning rather than traditional lecture-style knowledge transfer. These approaches are known by several names including Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) or simply Active Learning and have been shown to increase student success rates and year-over-year retention.
Successful active learning models require a thoughtful combination of pedagogy, educational content, space design, and supportive technology. This paper focuses on the technical needs for the active learning model.
