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Moving Beyond
the Lecture
By Prof. Jonathan Acuña-Solano, M. Ed.
School of English
Faculty of Social Sciences
Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
Friday, May 13, 2016
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As
frequently asked by many faculty members across the globe and other teaching
professionals in various fields and teaching environments, what are we teaching for within
our classrooms and courses? Students
are being taught to get general knowledge. But knowledge is not enough for a
graduate student from a university; it must be transformed into skills, which
in the course of time must become competencies to be used in the proper working
environment.
What
many instructors are instilling in their learners is to use their already acquired
knowledge to what they need to think and perform. If this practice gets to be
used anywhere in higher education, then this is indeed a great shift in how
academicians ought to be teaching where the contextualization of content is
done by means of active, problem-based learning that can be done with peers in
the classroom or elsewhere. Then, answering the question about what is being
taught in colleges and universities (or elsewhere) can be answered just by
saying, learners are taught to be competent at their future or current
workplaces by displaying the skills needed to work.
Using active, collaborative, and problem-based learning in your
own classroom
When
asked to what extend I use active, collaborative, and problem-based learning in
the hybrid teaching I currently have at Universidad Latina, I must say it is
quite ample. It has become active for my students since they are engaged in
autonomous learning while using web resources to analyze and spot data they can
use in their literary reports. It is collaborative since discussion of content
and learning goals need to be attained collectively rather than individually;
everyone is invited to join the discussion to facilitate learning. And it is
problem-based learning since the whole process is connected to a step-by-step
assignment that provides learners with a task that must be solved in connection
to what we are studying in class.
How
about in your particular cases? Is active, collaborative, and problem-based
learning part of the norm in your own classrooms?
What recommendations would you make to the faculty member in
this scenario?
Hector is a professor of history at a large university. One of the learning goals he wants his first-year students to achieve is to be able to relate historical events and trends to events and trends that are evident today. He believes his students are learning the basic facts of the historical periods covered in his class, and most can discuss key issues and trends of a particular period, but they have great difficulty relating the past to the present. They cannot make good connections between past and present events or compare and contrast past issues with current ones.
Hector recently
attended a faculty development workshop on active, collaborative, and
problem-based learning strategies and was provided with information that describes
various activities and aligns them with learning goals. Even with this
information, Hector is unsure of two things: 1) whether active learning is
appropriate for helping to meet the desired learning goal; and 2) which
strategy (or strategies) would be the best to help meet the learning goal.
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A
simple piece of advice I would like to provide Hector for his teaching
scenario, which can be applied to any place where one teaches: No matter what
he decides to do he should carefully review the ADDIE Model of Instructional
Design so he can guarantee that whatever he produces can be Analyzed, Designed,
Developed, Implemented, and Evaluated. A simple activity in which students are
not in a rigid environment where the professor is the one who is always
speaking can be a great shift in his class, but Hector needs to create
something students relate to and can see how knowledge can be used in the work
place, but as proposed above, it needs to be created with a simple instrument,
ADDIE.
What
would be your recommendation? Would you go about the same way I am proposing,
or would you rather go in a different direction?
Friday, May 13, 2016
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