Effective Social Learning: A Collaborative, Globally-Networked Pedagogy (Seminarium Elements) - Softcover

Christopher Duncanson-Hales; Nathan R. B. Loewen; G. Brooke Lester

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451488769 ISBN 13: 9781451488760

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2014

Synopsis

The ground of higher education is shifting, but learning ecosystems around the world have much more space than MOOCs and trendy online platforms can fill, and Loewen shows how professors have an indisputable pedagogical edge that gives them a crucial role to play in higher education. By adopting the collaborative pedagogical process in this book, professors can create effective social learning experiences that connect students to peers and professional colleagues in real-time.Loewen moves beyond surface questions about technology in the classroom to a problem best addressed by educators in bricks-and-mortar institutions: if students are social learners, how do we teach in a way that promotes actual dialogue for learning? Designing learning experiences that develop intercultural competencies puts the test to students’ social inclinations, and engagement with course material increases when it’s used to dig deeper into the specificities of their identity and social location. Loewen’s approach to inter-institutional collaborative teaching will be explored with examples and working templates for collaborative design of effective social learning experiences.

About this title

About the Author

Nathan Loewen is a professor in the Departments of Humanities and Religious Studies at Vanier College in Montreal, Canada. His approach to teaching adopts and adapts any technology that helps him enact pedagogies of active learning, universal design, and internationalization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1451488769
• ISBN 13: 9781451488760
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120