Keynote Speech: ICAP - Defining How Students Engage to Learn in Active Learning

The Director of the ICAP Center for Teaching & Learning, Professor Michelene Chi, will deliver the keynote address, “ICAP – Defining How Students Engage to Learn in Active Learning,” at the 6th MINT Symposium at TH Nürnberg. 

Active learning improves student learning, but it is not clear what instructors should do to engage students in active learning. The ICAP theory provides a framework that defines and differentiates four different ways that students can engage-with-instruction in active learning.

The first part of this talk will describe the four “modes” that characterize the ways that students physically interact-with-instruction, and the outputs they produce in the context of each mode of interaction-with-instruction. The second part of this talk will show three sets of findings, selected from numerous studies in the literature, supporting ICAP’s predictions. The third part of this talk will show how ICAP can be applied to improve instruction. The final part of this talk will discuss several caveats for clarifications and concerns.