This project worked with a Video-Based Learning Community (VBLC) for upload of teaching videos, sharing of teaching videos to the group, and comments or feedback on selected segments of the shared videos. Full time student teachers enrolled to courses on teaching methods of General Studies (GS) and Liberal Studies (LS) in 2011/12 academic year wereContinue reading “Cultivating Active Learning Through a Video-based Learning Community with General Studies and Liberal Studies teacher education”

This TDG project comprised 4 stages. First, feedback from teaching colleagues and students on the first pilot Outcome Based Learning (OBL) embedded module in Semester 1 of 2009-2010 was reviewed. This was then followed by the development of OBL teaching in a teaching-related module and an academic studies module in semester 2 of 2009-2010. TheContinue reading “Strategic Development and Implementation of OBL Modules in General Studies and Liberal Studies”

Academic service-learning, different from internships, volunteer activities, or social practice, intends to bridge the gap among abstract theoretical knowledge, life and the social world. Both academic learning and service actions enhance each other in the end. Academic service-learning has begun to take shape in some countries and regions, such as the U.S., Great Britain andContinue reading “Developing Resources for Effective Teaching and Learning in Academic Service-Learning Courses”