Active student learning is an educational approach that creates a learning environment focused on interactivity. To learn something well, it helps to hear it, see it, ask questions about it, and discuss it with others. Active learning is fast-paced, engaging, complex, supportive and fun. Students take greater responsibility for their own learning process, and faculty encourage students to put forth their best efforts. Butler supports active student learning in a number of ways.
Class sizes are small so that everyone gets a chance to participate.
Course clusters investigate the same theme in a multidisciplinary way to engage students deeply in a topic. Freshman living-learning centers allow small groups of students to live near each other, share common courses and interact with some of their professors, who also live in campus housing. The Butler Summer Institute and other university research programs encourage students to work closely with faculty mentors on meaningful research projects. The Undergraduate Research Conference gives Butler students the chance to present their research publicly and to interact with other researchers from across the Midwest. Program Internships Speakers Lab Univ.