Active learning methodologies: concepts and applications

Abstract

Educational institutions are seeking to minimize the challenges that educators have faced in finding different methodologies with a view to improving learning, and the use of active methodologies can help in this process through a variety of teaching strategies, such as problem-based learning, problematization, project-based learning, peer learning, the case method and the inverted classroom, among others. In this context, the aim was to describe the main concepts and methods of the so-called active learning methodologies. The study presented is qualitative in nature and is a literature review with the aim of gathering information on describing the main concepts and methods of the so-called active learning methodologies and summarizing them in a document, mainly for didactic use. Based on the observations and research carried out, it was possible to see that active teaching methodologies can make a significant contribution to the teaching and learning process. Educational institutions are always looking for ways to modernize the process and make students more engaged. In this concept, students are not just listeners in the classroom, absorbing everything they hear and being tested weeks later, but rather the protagonists of the lesson, where their own learning makes their day-to-day life at school more interesting.