Here are papers dealing with active learning.  In class we'll cover the excellent (and recent) survey paper by Settles.  settles.activelearning.pdf

The Settles paper has numerous reference to the various topics that he covers and will help you find more info on areas of the paper that you find interesting.  The survey article by Angluin also has references.  AngluinQueriesConceptLearningfulltext.pdf

The following papers cover specific techniques in more detail.  

Rubens-Active-Learning-RecSysHB2010.pdf   

i104.full.pdf

SICS-T--2009-06--SE.pdf    

The following view graphs will chart our course through the material. 

ActiveLearning.pdf

Here's a link to a site devoted to active learning. 

http://active-learning.net/