ENHANCHING TEACHING AND LEARNING

It's unsettling to give up control, but we've learned that a student-centred learning environment is more effective. A traditional lecture digitized as a "talking-head" video stream is even less compelling than its real-life counterpart. Learner-centredness means especially taking advantage of the collaborative possibilit

It's unsettling to give up control, but we've learned that a student-centred learning environment is more effective. A traditional lecture digitized as a "talking-head" video stream is even less compelling than its real-life counterpart. Learner-centredness means especially taking advantage of the collaborative possibilities of computer networks.

ies of computer networks.

The current methods used to enhance teaching and learning are:

vE learn

vGroup discussions

vGroup presentations

vGrade Center

vTutorials

vLectures

In the Monash University foundation Year, lecturers’ are encouraged to use e-learn as a tool to enhance teaching and learning. For economics, past year questions, articles and other information are posted on e-learn. Students are required to download the articles and past year questions from e-learn. This tool is used in class, whereby the articles are discussed by logging on to  e-learn.

 

vPhotos of students doing group discussions during tutorial sessions

 

vLater they were required to do a presentation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Based on my learning styles assessment which I have conducted, I found that students preferred doing group work as they get the opportunity to interact with their classmates. They seem to have fun doing presentations as well!

Thus, I have leant to change my teaching style to a certain extent. Nowdays, I try to incorporate a lot of group work in my lectures. I find that students have more fun in terms of learning and they also seem to understand and remember things better.

I am moving towards creating a more student centerd learning rather than teacher centered learning environment. Although it is time consuming but at the end of the semester I know that learning has taken place.