Book Title: Making Active Learning Happen for All
Subtitle: Practical Ideas for Developing and Sustaining Active Learning
Edited by Sarah Wilson-Medhurst and Janet Horrocks
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Book Description: How can we make active learning the norm for all in higher education? Making Active Learning Happen for All offers a bold and timely answer from the Active Learning Network and its members. Bringing together educators and practitioners from around the world, this guidebook demonstrates how active learning can be embedded meaningfully, sustainably, and inclusively across entire institutions. Through practical tools, case studies, and research-led insights, this book offers a roadmap for enabling every learner to engage, and every educator to succeed at active learning. Practical, uplifting, and rooted in a systems thinking framework, Making Active Learning Happen for All is an essential companion for anyone committed to creating learning experiences that are engaging, equitable, and future-focused.
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How can we make active learning the norm for all in higher education?
Making Active Learning Happen for All: Practical Ideas for Developing and Sustaining Active Learning offers a bold and timely answer from the Active Learning Network and its members. Bringing together educators and practitioners from around the world, this guidebook demonstrates how active learning can be embedded meaningfully, sustainably, and inclusively across entire institutions. Far from a collection of isolated tips, the book employs a systems thinking lens to explore the mindsets, structures, and cultures that shape whether active learning thrives or dwindles.
Through practical tools, case studies, and research-led insights, readers will discover how colleagues in higher education are shaping structures and processes including curricula, reward and recognition, learning environments, and staff and student mindsets to put active learning at the heart of education. Making active learning happen for all is not an easy challenge to address, but this guidebook offers a clear way forward.
Whether you are a lecturer seeking to enrich your practice, a facilitator supporting staff development, or a leader seeking to drive educational change, this book offers a roadmap for enabling every learner to engage, and every educator to succeed at active learning. Practical, evidence-informed, and uplifting, Making Active Learning Happen for All is an essential companion for anyone committed to creating learning experiences that are engaging, equitable, and future-focused.
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Making Active Learning Happen for All Copyright © 2026 by Sarah Wilson-Medhurst and Janet Horrocks, selection and editorial matter; the authors, individual chapters is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Higher education, tertiary education
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Making Active Learning Happen for All Copyright © 2026 by Sarah Wilson-Medhurst and Janet Horrocks, selection and editorial matter; the authors, individual chapters is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Copyright © Sarah Wilson-Medhurst and Janet Horrocks, 2026. The copyright in each individual chapter remains with the author(s), who have licensed their work for open access publication under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence except where otherwise stated. Images and other third‑party materials are excluded from this licence and may be subject to different copyright restrictions; permission to reuse such material must be obtained from the rights holder.
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