I believe in the importance of active learning; however, I have always thought it depends on the subject matter and end goal. Although it takes extra time to prepare for active learning on the instructor's part, it is worth it when I'm teaching my Ethics course.
I have more fear trying to make it work for my more scientific courses in our accelerated program. My students take boards at the end of our program where part of their score comes from factual, rote information. The other half is filled with case studies and critical thinking where active learning has benefited.
I have implemented Jeopardy, Scavenger Hunts, Videos, etc., but at the end of the day there is large part of information that simply has had to be memorized. This is what I struggle with.
