Micro-Session 11

Theme: Collaborative Learning

Learning, Teaching, Research Model (LTRM) Arc: Applied and Authentic, Caring and Community Based, and Transformational (ACT)

Facilitator: Zhenyi Li (SCC)

Participants: 22 (online)

Date: September 27, 2022

View the session recording (Zoom)

Description: The Centre for Teaching and Educational Technologies (CTET) hosted the eleventh values-based micro-session that focused on the Learning, Teaching, and Research Model (LTRM). The theme for the session was Collaborative Learning, facilitated by Zhenyi Li. In the session, Zhenyi Li shared about his assignment design for “collaborative learning” in IICS 625 “Communication for Health and Well-being”, where conventional teamwork is replaced by interactive “peer review”. The assignments are designed in a way that every student needs to team-up with at least 50% classmates to obtain an average final grade. They have to work closer with more classmates if they aim to have higher grades. Therefore, the assignment design encourages and facilitates “collaborative learning” as RRU LTRM advocates, while it mitigates certain “team issues” which may scare students away from “collaborative learning”.