---
title: "The Active Learning Cycle"
artifact: "highlights"
resource_person: "Carl Wieman and Jonas Koblin"
resource_person_role: "Script co-authors; Wieman is a physicist and science-education researcher, and Koblin is a Sprouts co-founder"
vertical: "pedagogy"
module: "Active Learning Strategies"
lesson: "The Active Learning Cycle"
lesson_key: "the-active-learning-cycle"
source: "curated"
source_channel: "Sprouts"
---
# The Active Learning Cycle: Highlights

**Resource person:** Carl Wieman and Jonas Koblin - Script co-authors; Wieman is a physicist and science-education researcher, and Koblin is a Sprouts co-founder

**Curated from:** Sprouts

1. 00:02 — Active learning is introduced through participation, collaboration, application and sustained student thinking.
2. 00:31 — The animation argues that new information needs a foundation in what the learner already understands.
3. 01:27 — Carl Wieman's classroom example introduces a four-part cycle built around conceptual questions.
4. 02:06 — An individual first vote gives the teacher diagnostic evidence and gives every student a stake in the question.
5. 02:33 — Students compare explanations before seeing the class result, while the instructor circulates and listens.
6. 03:25 — The instructor leads a whole-class analysis of correct and incorrect reasoning before consolidating the solution.
7. 04:50 — The video turns to outcome research; its broad conclusion is supported, but its specific study and retention figures need qualification.