Abstract
A trend of active learning that started with university education became the core of the general policies regarding curriculum formulation. Here and now, active learning is a keyword for promoting reform from preschool to university. This is because active learning has a great impact not only on educational methods but also on outlook on learning, which resulted in endorsing paradigm shift from teaching to learning and reappraisal of educational goals.
In addition to fostering of a number of competences indispensable in society, active learning has been successful for deep understanding and fixing knowledge.
In this report based on the learning research, we will show their major trends and explain motivations for introducing active learning. We also discuss the problems occurring in actual educational scenes and propose to better design the active learning that resolves those problems and encourages deeper understanding.
