Work-It-Out (WIO) : Enhancing students' problems solving skills by modelling how to Work It Out in a just-in-time learning environment : final report.
This Fellowship was created to assist first year university students studying in a foundational physics unit to improve communication skills and literacy within their discipline. These units are often taken by students from a wide range of disciplines including Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, Mathe...
| Institution: | Murdoch University |
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Australia. Office for Learning and Teaching
2016
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| Dostęp online: | /resources/Creagh_C_NTF_Report_2016.pdf |
| Streszczenie: | This Fellowship was created to assist first year university students studying in a foundational physics unit to improve communication skills and literacy within their discipline. These units are often taken by students from a wide range of disciplines including Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics, Education and Metallurgy and are intended to provide students with basic problems solving skills and physics knowledge. Throughout the Fellowship the focus remained on creating resources which would enable university teachers, tutors and demonstrators to build a learning environment that facilitates students' learning and consolidates their basic skills and background knowledge in physics. The Fellowship created a teaching strategy, supporting videos and learning resources focused on the threshold skills students need to be able to fully benefit from the curriculum. While creating the resources it became apparent that they could also be used to train tutors and demonstrators, thereby giving the students even more support in their learning. At meta-curriculum level the resources were also used to start conversations with university educators about the way they construct learning environments, and the choices they make about the learning and teaching elements within them. This type of professional development was extended to high-school teachers providing them with tools to support pre-university student learning and so better prepare their students for university study. Using the output from the Fellowship to inform learning and teaching at all levels, provides holistic support for students in their learning. The teaching strategy, videos and other educational resources produced as part of the Fellowship were published in journals, disseminated at conferences, uploaded to Fellowship websites and released onto YouTube. An emerging community of scholars consisting of university lecturers, teachers, representatives from professional bodies and industry is now working with the Fellowship materials and community focused website. [Executive summary, ed] |
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| ISBN: | 9781760287450 (pdf) 9781760287450 (pdf) |
