This professional development session explores the principles, benefits, and practical applications of active learning across face-to-face, hybrid, high-flex, and online environments. Participants share engaging and ineffective learning experiences before examining how collaboration, creativity, authenticity, interaction, relevance, challenge, and feedback support meaningful learning. The session covers classroom physical activity, flipped classrooms, gamification and game-based learning, collaborative learning, and problem-based learning. It also addresses implementation challenges across delivery formats and offers strategies for asynchronous engagement, peer review, discussion forums, multimedia submissions, and inclusive participation. The session concludes by preparing participants to use AI tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot to develop active learning lesson plans in a future session.
