Learning with tech in higher education rather than from it

Technology has shifted the way that professors teach students in higher education. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found that activity-based, rather than lecture-based, learning enhances student creativity and learning by allowing students to use technology to develop their own original ideas, reports Science Daily.

Isa Jahnke, associate professor in the University of Missouri College of Education’s School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, collaborated with former doctoral student Julia Liebscher to study how higher education professors in Europe use mobile technology in their classes. She found that student creativity was most enhanced by professors who allowed their students to use technology in a team setting to come up with a novel product or idea.

“This research is useful for professors to rethink how they design their existing courses,” Jahnke said. “We need to shift away from purely lecture-based learning where students are just consumers of information toward a more meaningful learning approach with technology where students are able to come up with creative and novel solutions in a team setting.”
Full report on the Science Daily site