Collaboration, Case-Based Learning

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Collaboration, Case-Based Learning

Do you ever wonder what’s going on in students’ minds as they’re walking into class? Is there any way to know whether they’re ready for the lesson you’re about to present? Do you wish there was some way to engage students in the collaborative planning of what’s going to occur in class? Just-in-Time Teaching makes use of electronic communications to try to answer these questions. Explore this website from the USC Center for Scholarly Technology and consider whether this technique might work for you and your classes.

Just-in-Time Teaching - website

http://www.usc.edu/isd/locations/cst/tlsnew/themes/jitt.html

One reason we like to take group classes is that we learn a great deal by watching, and working with, each other. This website from Georgia State University has some interesting theory on how collaboration works as a learning environment and what you can do to help make it happen in your classes.

Enabling student collaboration for learning - website

http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwltc/howto/enablestudentcollab.htm

A case-based approach can be particularly useful in helping students make the connection between ‘book-learning’ and practical experience. Unlike textbook examples where the chapter heading provides reliable direction, real world cases are often messy and incomplete requiring students to analyze and extract the relevant concepts.

Case-Based Teaching & Learning – video & related resources

http://www.usc.edu/programs/cet/usc/programs/video/2005/casebased.html