Implementing Active Learning Department Wide: A Course Community for a Culture Change

Abstract

A course community (CC) was formed to facilitate the implementation of active-learning materials in the Introductory Statistics course at a large southeastern U.S. university. Instructors met every two weeks for the semester before and the semester of the implementation. The CC helped instructors improve their content knowledge and pedagogical skills. Results show improvement in teacher attitudes and in student scores.

Keywords

• Active learning
• Course community
• Introductory statistics
• Professional development