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i5 Characteristic: actively engaging

Facilitate active engagement

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Definition

Facilitating active engagement means making your business classroom a place of student action and expression.

You create the conditions for students to be motivated to participate and to be personally invested. You design physical “hands-on” activities with materials and objects, as well as intellectual “minds-on” activities with provocative ideas and challenging questions based on real-world experiences. You organize activities that call students to make decisions in real-world business situations, practicing behaviors and mindsets of responsible leaders. You regularly bring students into the physical, virtual, social and intellectual spaces that business professionals live and operate in. You expose them to working professionals’ real narratives and perspectives, helping them develop their personal and professional vision. In actively engaging learning environments, learners choose to focus their attention and may find themselves so immersed that they experience flow.

Research Ties

Read more about this method’s ties to literature on teaching, learning and responsible leadership

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Signature Moves

Animating

Incorporating activities that focus students’ attention, energize them, or ask them to perform an action that invites them to physically move in their space or surroundings.

Authenticating

Expose students to real-world issues and engage them in experiences that are authentic to their current and future realities.

Linking

Building meaningful links and relationships between students and industry professionals, businesses, community organizations, and others.

Teching

Creating opportunities for your students to use technologies in effective and healthy ways.

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Case Studies

Real-life examples from educators around the world.

Powerful program is an example of transformational learning

authenticating

linking

exploring

sensing

management

research

india

nepal

bangladesh

Student clubs connect academic and practical worlds

animating

authenticating

personalizing

economics

business administration

accounting

brazil

Institutions provide pro bono work for deserving businesses that lack resources

authenticating

linking

management

social responsibility

economics

colombia

philippines

The green business lab simulation engages students in real-life business cycles

animating

authenticating

prototyping

delighting

social responsibility

responsible leadership

australia

Guest speakers add additional voices and perspective

linking

authenticating

sustainability

italy

Real-life businesses engage and inspire students during the Two-in-one field trip

animating

authenticating

linking

canada

The risks and rewards of active engagement strategies — transparent reflections from a Professor

animating

delighting

contemplating

Sustainability in Enterprise

linking

authenticating

sustainable business

responsible leadership

united kingdom

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5-Minute Stretch

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