Teaching today is not only about delivering content well; it is about helping students to engage with, remember and actually use what they learn. Learning becomes lasting when students investigate, create, collaborate, play, reflect, receive meaningful feedback and connect new knowledge with real experiences.
The Active Learning Pedagogy School (ALPS) addresses a key question in higher education: how can university teachers design learning experiences that are meaningful, inclusive and lasting? Rather than offering a collection of isolated techniques, the programme treats active learning as a coherent process of experiencing, reflecting, redesigning, testing and transferring.
Participants will first experience a range of methods as learners — including research-based learning, storytelling, World Café, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), multimodal and tactile learning, game-based learning, digital pedagogy and non-formal education — and will then analyse why these methods work and how they can be applied in their own disciplines. Each participant brings a real course or teaching challenge to rethink and, from Day 2 onwards, works in an interdisciplinary and intercultural team to co-create and pilot a new Short Learning Opportunity (SLO).
Reflection is supported throughout by a Learning Diary, the Sticky Wall, a shared digital portfolio and the individual Learning that Sticks Passport.
