Social Learning via Improved Daily Writing Assignments, Implementation of Study Groups, and Well-Structured Daily Class Discussions

As recent scholarship emphasizes the value of social learning, this article describes a course redesign that sought to encourage such social learning. This multi-year course redesign includes altering a daily writing assignment to make it more specific and to make it a contribution to the learning...

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Main Author: Shawn R. Tucker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Park University 2018-08-01
Series:InSight : A Journal of Scholarly Teaching
Online Access:http://www.insightjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/3-Tucker_Social-Learning-via-Improved-Daily-Writing-Assignments-Implementation-of-Study-Groups-and-Well-Structured-Daily-Class-Discussions.pdf
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Summary:As recent scholarship emphasizes the value of social learning, this article describes a course redesign that sought to encourage such social learning. This multi-year course redesign includes altering a daily writing assignment to make it more specific and to make it a contribution to the learning of a study group. Data was collected and evaluated to explore the effectiveness of this change. The author also offers reflections on how the course redesign encouraged social learning via study groups and how the redesign made daily class discussions more deliberate and robust.
ISSN:1933-4850
1933-4869