Overview of Active Learning Research and Rationale for Active Learning; Bill Jefferies and Katie Huggett -- Flipped Classroom as a Pedagogy to Achieve Active Learning; Jacqui McLaughlin, Russell Mumper and Mary Roth -- Team Based Learning; Rick Sabina -- Socratic Questioning; David Elkowitz -- Peer Teaching; Senthil Rjasekaran -- Concept Maps; Michael Cassara -- Games; Hitesh Shah -- Social Media; Daniel George -- Organ Recitals; Jeffrey Holt and John Szarek -- Brief Activities: TPS, Jigsaw, Brainstorming, Background Knowledge Probe, Clinical Cases; Alice Fornari and Ann Poznanski -- Audience Response System; Diedre Bonnycastle -- Summation-Neuroscience of Learning; John Pelley.

This book focuses on large and small group educational settings and offers brief strategies to engage learners to assure active learning strategies are core to the learning environment. The book opens with an introduction on active learning principles. Each chapter follows with a specific description of a strategy written by authors who are experienced in using the strategy in a classroom environment with students. The chapters are designed to be accessible and practical for the reader to apply in their learning environments.