Facilitating active learning with international students: what worked and what didn't

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Title: Facilitating active learning with international students: what worked and what didn't
Author(s): Qian, David
Abstract: This paper explores the efficacy of applying active learning methods in tutorials for international students. First it looks at the way that tutorials were being conducted and discusses their inadequacies and the need for change. The paper then describes some of the different activities that were used to involve the students in a more active form of learning. The positive feeling of the tutor regarding the change was confirmed by the feedback from the students to a questionnaire. The paper argues that despite the language difficulties and a tradition of rote learning, international students respond more readily to a variety of more interactive practices, but this cannot happen unless the tutor is prepared to make greater efforts to plan more innovative activities.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Higher Education, Lilydale
Source: Ergo: The Journal of the Education Research Group of Adelaide, Vol. 2, no. 1 (Feb 2011), pp. 35-46
Publication year: 2011
Keyword(s): Active learning methods; Higher education; International students
Publisher: Education Research Group Adelaide
ISSN: 1835-6850
Publisher URL: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/erga/ergo/
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