There will be times in which an instructor faces pushback from students and/or other members of faculty for practicing Active Learning techniques. From the students' perspectives, they would have likely encountered an educational system in which they were strictly told what to learn and memorize, and active learning is a vastly different approach to that, causing potential confusion and frustrations. But it is up to the teacher to reassure and guide the student that their learning is in their own hands, and the instructor is merely a facilitator of the knowledge.
