Resources for Prospective & Current LA Faculty
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LAs are most commonly implemented in discussion or lab sections to foster collaborative learning among students working together to solve problems or do an activity.
Interested in talking to instructors who have had LAs or exploring education research on LAs?
See this list of faculty and courses that have had LAs since Fall 2020.
For a collection of more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and presentations studying the impacts of LA programs nationwide, please click here.
LAs CAN FACILITATE ACTIVE LEARNING
- Several studies have pointed to the value of adopting peer interaction and active learning strategies for increasing student learning and grade performance.
- Using LAs can help support the implementation of these high impact approaches.
- LA implementation in large lecture courses has helped lower the “activation energy” for active learning and contributed to its spread throughout an institution.
- When LAs are used to transform traditional lecture-dominated courses into a more interactive and inclusive format, it is generally at a ratio of about one LA for every 20-30 students.