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Demystifying the Meaning of Active Learning in Postsecondary Biology Education.
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Abstract
Active learning is frequently used to describe teaching practices, but the term is not well-defined in the context of undergraduate biology education. To clarify this term, we explored how active learning is defined in the biology education literature (
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