OPTION 1 Case Study | University of Washington School of Medicine “The educational literature is very clear. If you use the information you’re trying to learn, you will remember it at a deeper level than if you just hear it in a lecture.” That’s Linda Vorvick, Director of Academic Affairs at the MEDEX Northwest Physician Assistant Program, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, explaining the basic concept behind the active learning classrooms being installed on campuses across the country. “These classrooms allow us to move to teaching methods where students are more engaged, use more neural connections and thus enhance their ability to recall what they learn.” While the technology in active learning classrooms—also called learnin

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