scholarly journals COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY TEACHING AND LEARNING LANDSCAPE: EFFECTS TO STUDENTS’ COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE AND PSYCHOMOTOR DIMENSIONS

Author(s):  
Romeo Jr Beriso Sotto

Collaborative Learning (CL) is an approach to teaching and learning that involves a group of learners working together. The study aims to assess collaborative learning effects in the 21st-century teaching-learning landscape, particularly on the students' cognitive, affective and psychomotor dimensions. This study utilized the descriptive-evaluative method of research with a validated questionnaire as the primary data gathering instrument. Results showed that females dominate male students as to their number in first and second-year levels. The majority of the respondents aged 20 and below have participated in various collaborative activities and assignments in and out of the class with a typical size of 5 to 7 group members. Collaborative learning found to have a very high effect on Students' Academic Learning (cognitive), Collaborative Skills (affective) and least on Skills development (psychomotor). The researchers recommend that male students be engaged in group dynamics and learning activities; it must involve teenagers and suffice their activities' preference. Activities that demand greater participation, drills and exercises, and thinking activities must allow the students to develop their cognitive, affective, and psychomotor dimensions for holistic learning.

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-73
Author(s):  
ABDELOUAHED LAACHIR

This paper focuses on the implementation of using collaborative learning via virtual communities in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) with a vision to identify three things: students’ perception, their active participation in virtual learning groups, students’ satisfaction with this new strategy of learning, and the relationship between gender and the latter. To answer these questions, the present research adopts a quantitative method using a questionnaire for data gathering and the use of IBM SPSS for data analysis. The findings of the present study demonstrate that students hold positive attitudes towards online collaborative learning, students are active participants in the online learning process; students are satisfied and able to develop many skills like, problem solving skills, communication skills, and critical thinking skills. Last but not least, the findings also show that gender does not affect the effectiveness of using collaborative learning in virtual communities. Thus, the implementation of this up-dated strategy of learning is useful and needed to fulfill the missing gaps in the traditional ways of teaching/learning English as a foreign language in the Moroccan higher education.


2004 ◽  
pp. 132-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Dirkx ◽  
Regina O. Smith

Online learning programs have been expanding at exponential rates. To help encourage the development of learning communities within these environments, practitioners and scholars are advocating more collaborative learning approaches. Yet, many students express reservations about learning in small groups, particularly online. In this chapter, we explore more deeply the nature of student ambivalence about online collaborative learning. Weaving the findings of case studies of online groups with research and theory in collaborative learning and group dynamics, we argue that students hold on to highly subjective and individualistic understandings of teaching and learning. These perspectives manifest themselves in their overall approach to group inquiry and decision making. To embrace a more interdependent and intersubjective perspective requires a paradigm shift among members with regard to teaching and learning, and a working through of the powerful emotional dynamics associated with group development. We conclude with suggestions for designing and facilitating online environments that addresses these issues.


Author(s):  
Emmanuel Adjei-Boateng ◽  
Ernest Ampadu

There are many approaches to teaching and learning available to teachers. However, educators and educational researchers have focused attention on approaches that ensure active learning of students and social interaction in the teaching-learning process. One of the approaches that promote students learning through active engagement and social interaction is collaborative learning. The chapter attempts to help teachers and pre-service teachers to understand collaborative learning as an inductive approach to teaching and learning. It examines important issues like meaning and elements of collaborative learning; collaboration and cooperation; advantages and challenges with implementation of collaborative learning. Teachers' role in the implementation of collaboration learning as well as collaborative learning techniques is also covered.


Author(s):  
Alhad A. Mulkalwar ◽  
Amit V. Dashputra ◽  
Afrid T. Jaipuri ◽  
Pallavi V. Sutar ◽  
Sarita A. Mulkalwar ◽  
...  

Background: There is lack of knowledge regarding research amongst medical students as it is not included in the present curriculum of MBBS. Hence authors have selected ‘Medical Research’ as a topic to evaluate the efficacy of WhatsApp messenger application as a teaching-learning tool. There is very limited research on impact of technological modalities like WhatsApp on education. Authors undertook this study to evaluate its efficacy as a tool to supplement medical research education and assess the perception of students about e-learning via WhatsApp messenger application.Methods: A prospective analytical interventional study was conducted after obtaining ethical approval from the Institutional Ethics Committee. A self-designed comprehensive questionnaire was used to test the knowledge of medical students. A series of modules were sent and discussed on the WhatsApp study groups followed by assessment in change of the level of knowledge amongst the participants post intervention.Results: Applying the paired t-test, the scores of the study participants showed a statistically significant increase in the post- intervention evaluation (Mean=10.13, Median=10, Range=0-21) as compared to the baseline knowledge regarding medical research as reflected in the pre intervention evaluation (Mean=6.76, Median=7, Range=0-16). Conclusions: Growing availability of economical and user friendly smart phones in every generation has promoted use of WhatsApp by teachers as well as students. WhatsApp has the potential to supplement academic learning and become a natural educational modality. Necessary precautions could be taken to minimize the drawbacks expressed by the students to make it a more enjoyable and acceptable tool for teaching and learning.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shobhana Puranik

21st Century is the age of cataclysmic change and creativity. India needs educated man power in huge numbers. Traditional teaching learning methodology is outdated and best methods are to be identified to improve the required skills of the teachers and students. There exists a strong need to change pedagogy from fact-based traditional lecturing to interactive teaching with the aim of fostering durable and employability skills. To address this problem, innovation in teaching and learning has become essential. Adoption of various methods and strategies as mentioned in the paper will help in getting the desired outcome. The present paper describes innovative teaching methods being adopted by higher educational institutes in the country.


Author(s):  
Sani Alhaji Garba ◽  
Byabazaire Yusuf ◽  
Abdul Hamid Busthami

ICT Infrastructure and internet connectivity in educational institutions provides learners and teachers the opportunity of adopting 21st century teaching-learning methods that promotes the development of 21st century skills. The availability of internet connectivity in particular provides the platform for a shift from the use of teacher-centered pedagogy (content-based learning) to learner-centered pedagogy (inquiry and project-based learning) that is more interactive and activity oriented. But are teachers utilizing these facilities to advantage? This study investigates the use of ICT and internet resources in relation to the use of 21st century technology-based teaching-learning approaches in Malaysia and Asia Pacific context from a global perspective. Qualitative research approach was used for data collection and analysis in the study. Findings from the study show a unique unexpected changing pattern in the use of computer and internet among school teachers; and new challenges associated with the integration of ICT and the use of 21st century approaches in classroom pedagogical practices were identified. As observed in the study, despite the facilities provided; the technological competence acquired by teachers; and, the increasing use of computer and internet by teachers; the approach to teaching and learning has not change as desired.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
Royda Kampamba

This article explored diversity and hybridity in the third space as a teaching resource. Students bring to the classroom or third space their diverse sociocultural issues, knowledge levels of chemistry, and socioeconomic status. Educators also bring to the third space their university knowledge and culture. Hence, a classroom or third space is a hybrid. The intersection of the students’ activity systems and educators’ activity systems created a third space. Activity systems are social practices that include the norms, values, divisions of labour, and community goals. The study intended to explore the negotiations by chemistry educators and first-year students in teaching-learning of acids-bases reactions. It is a topic that most students experience challenges from secondary school to graduate level. Acids-bases are one of the threshold concepts. Qualitative research was employed in the study. Data were collected through classroom observations. A thematic approach was employed to analyse data. Five chemistry educators and their classes were purposely sampled. Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) was employed to unpack group dynamics in a Zambian university. Interactions in the learning spaces generated constraints, tensions, diversity, and affordances for both educators and students. The findings suggest that hybridity may be a resource in teaching acids-bases threshold concepts. Educators should understand students’ knowledge and cultural diversities. Researchers can investigate how students’ different acids-bases knowledge levels can promote success in chemistry.


Author(s):  
Maria Nery ◽  
Débora Silva ◽  
Paulo Figueiredo

Muito embora haja vários estudos que apontem para a importância do uso da literatura infantil e de atividades lúdicas para o processo de ensino-aprendizagem, ainda há escassez de estudos que avaliem não apenas a incidência, mas a maneira como tais atividades são usadas em escolas, principalmente em um contexto distante dos centros economicamente desenvolvidos do Brasil. Este artigo examina essas questões em uma pequena amostra de 20 escolas de educação infantil e de ensino fundamental em Corumbá-MS, um município localizado no lado oeste do Centro-Oeste brasileiro: oito municipais, quatro estaduais e oito da rede privada. Baseando-se em evidências empíricas de primeira mão, colhidas diretamente nas escolas pesquisadas por meio de um extensivo trabalho de campo e de técnicas múltiplas de coleta de dados, este estudo indica que, pelo menos nessa amostra de escolas, a adoção das práticas pedagógicas baseadas em atividades lúdicas e no uso da literatura infantil é variada tanto em termos de sua incidência como em termos do modo como são usadas. Essa heterogeneidade foi encontrada tanto dentro de cada categoria de escola (estadual, municipal ou privada) como entre as três categorias. As evidências sugerem que a carência de uma formação específica dos professores parece ser um inibidor crucial à adoção e ao uso adequado de atividades lúdicas na prática pedagógica das escolas pesquisadas. Recomendamos, portanto, uma substancial melhoria da formação dos professores no sentido de proporcionar-lhes uma formação mais compreensiva, a fim de ampliar e aprimorar o seu entendimento sobre a real importância das atividades lúdicas para o processo de aprendizagem interativa e criativa. Isto, por sua vez, implicaria uma convergência de esforços por parte não apenas da gestão das escolas, mas também das universidades, que formam os professores, e dos formuladores de política pública, local e nacional, que podem influenciar na provisão de recursos físicos, financeiros e humanos. Abstract Ludic activities and children literature in the pedagogic practice: evidence from a sample of schools from Mid-West in Brazil Although there are various studies pointing to the importance of ludic activities and children literature to the teaching-learning process, there is still a scarcity of studies that assess not only the incidence, but also the manner in which such activities are used in schools, particularly in a context which is far away from the developed areas of Brazil. This article examines such issues in a sample of 20 schools of pre school education and the initial series of primary school in Corumbá, a town located on western side of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in Mid-west Brazil: eight private schools, eight municipal schools, and four state schools. Drawing on first-hand empirical evidence collected directly in the sampled schools on the basis of an extensive fieldwork and multiple data-gathering techniques, this study indicates that, at least within this sample of schools, the adoption of pedagogic practices based on the use of ludic activities and child literature is varied either in terms of their incidence or in terms of the way in which they are implemented. Such heterogeneity was found both within each category of schools (private, municipal or state) and across these three categories. The lack of a proper training of teachers seems to be a crucial inhibitor of an adequate use of such ludic activities in the pedagogic practice of the researched schools. Thus, we recommend more focused and refined efforts on the qualification of teachers in order to expand their knowledge and skills and so that they can perform as facilitators of an interactive and creative teaching and learning processes. Such efforts should be made not only within the schools themselves, but also at the level of universities, that train teachers, and policy makers, at both local and national levels, that can influence the provision of physical, financial and human resources. Keywords: Children literature; ludic activities; Pedagogic practices; Mid West Brazil


Author(s):  
Vaishali . ◽  
Pradeep Kumar Misra

There is popular expectation at the level of society and educational policy makers that teachers’ must adopt different approaches in classrooms to prepare learners to meet the needs of 21st century. In this context, it is expected from the teachers to be aware of emerging approaches in learning and use them appropriately in classroom conditions. Constructivist approach of learning is one such emerging approach. Constructivist approaches are slightly different from the conventional approaches of teaching and learning. These approaches emphasize that the role of teacher must be changed from the ‘sage on stage’ to ‘guide from the side’. In fact, it is expected that a teacher equipped with constructivist approaches can encourage the learners to take active part in teaching learning process and foster their critical thinking, creativity and problem solving abilities. Extending these arguments, the present paper describes constructivism and associated pedagogical skills, enlists different constructivist approaches, and discusses the role of the teachers in implications of constructivist approaches in the classrooms.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Gerner ◽  
Marion Pause

Environmental remote sensing has faced increasing satellite data availability, advanced algorithms for thematic analysis, and novel concepts of ground truth. For that reason, contents and concepts of learning and teaching remote sensing are constantly evolving. This eventually leads to the intuition of methodologically linking academic learning assignments with case-related scopes of application. In order to render case-related learning possible, smart teaching and interactive learning contexts are appreciated and required for remote sensing. That is due to the fact that those contexts are considered promising to trigger and gradually foster students’ comprehensive interdisciplinary thinking. To this end, the following contribution introduces the case-related concept of applying simulation games as a promising didactic format in teaching/learning assignments of remote sensing. As to methodology, participating students have been invited to take on individual roles bound to technology-related profiles (e.g., satellite-mission planning, irrigation, etc.) Based on the scenario, stakeholder teams have been requested to elaborate, analyze and negotiate viable solutions for soil moisture monitoring in a defined context. Collaboration has been encouraged by providing the protected, specifically designed remoSSoil-incubator environment. This letter-type paper aims to introduce the simulation game technique in the context of remote sensing as a type of scholarly teaching; it evaluates learning outcomes by adopting certain techniques of scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL); and it provides food for thought of replicating, adapting and enhancing simulation games as an innovative, disruptive next-generation learning environment in remote sensing.


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