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 project mainly supported colleagues of the MSST department with various initiatives in different subject disciplines related to the recent development of 334. These include development and revision of programmes and modules, as well as surveys and interviews to collect views from stakeholders. The outcomes of the project would be the newly developed programmes asContinue reading “Preparing OBL/ 334 for General Studies, Liberal Studies, Information Technology, Mathematics, Business Studies and Technology & Living”

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”

Interdisciplinary learning units with focuses on science and environment can help learners develop critical thinking skills and act in responsible ways. This project focused on concepts and action competence as the crucial elements for the complex interdisciplinary issues that involve the environmental and scientific aspects of the society. The project worked on the construction ofContinue reading “Developing Interdisciplinary Units Related to Science and Environment that Promote Critical Thinking, Democratic Processes and Action-oriented Knowledge”