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Online Student Contracts To Promote Metacognitive Development, Mark Mcmahon, Joseph Luca
Online Student Contracts To Promote Metacognitive Development, Mark Mcmahon, Joseph Luca
Research outputs pre 2011
Knowing about one’s own cognitive ability, and how best to use this ability in understanding new educational content, solving problems and making effective decisions is one of the holy grails of education! Metacognition is widely perceived as being integral to effective learning and much literature and research has been devoted to this area. However online learning environments that effectively support the development of students’ metacognition are rare and difficult to develop. This paper describes one component (the student contract) of an online learning environment designed to support the development of metacognition through a cycle of planning, monitoring and evaluation. Students …
Is Role-Play An Effective Teaching Approach To Assist Tertiary Students To Improve Teamwork Skills, Joseph Luca, Deanna Heal
Is Role-Play An Effective Teaching Approach To Assist Tertiary Students To Improve Teamwork Skills, Joseph Luca, Deanna Heal
Research outputs pre 2011
Often student teams become dysfunctional as a result of inexperience and lack of prior knowledge. This exploratory study implements and evaluates a framework that attempts to scaffold teamwork skills through role-play activities. The review highlighted five essential teamwork skills that are supported with teaching materials. The results indicated that measuring change in team performance is difficult. However, the study showed that roleplay was an effective teaching approach and well received by the students.