Introduction

摘要

Active learning methods have been the subject of much interest in higher education since the turn of the twentieth century. However, during the last decade we have seen a dramatic increase in their application in the college classroom and laboratory. The current volume contains twenty chapters that focus on recent developments in active learning as related to the education of scientists in the analytical sciences. The purpose of this introductory chapter is to: (1) introduce active learning and its principal methods that will be discussed in this volume; (2) introduce the subjects to be discussed in the following chapters; and (3) highlight some important aspects of subjects not covered in this volume, that have future implications to the field.