Large Online First Year Learning and Teaching: the Lived Experience of Developing a Student-Centred Continual Learning Practice

Heather Stewart (), Rod Gapp () and Luke Houghton ()
Additional contact information
Heather Stewart: Griffith University
Rod Gapp: Griffith University
Luke Houghton: Griffith University

Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2020, vol. 33, issue 4, No 3, 435-451

Abstract: Abstract A large online first year management course has the potential to present the perfect learning and teaching ‘storm’. This journey, uses continual (action) learning as an action research methodology to develop and improve student-centred approaches (Biggs and Tang 2011; Prosser and Trigwell High Educ 67(6):783–795, 2014). Qualitative student feedback and aggregated data are presented through the theoretical positions, of student-centred pedagogy and organization development theories to build social construction. Technology, the ‘shiny toy’ of online education is often emphasised in place of a balance between pedagogy, technology and content knowledge (Mishra and Koehler Learning and Leading with Technology 36(7):14–18, 2009). This research demonstrates the regaining of balance across these dimensions through the application of action learning sets. The outcome of this research reveals the practical benefits of a student-centred focus that is underpinned by the student’s sense of belonging and overall satisfaction. These benefits improve students’ learning experience and theoretically advance the importance of continual learning and teaching in higher education.

Keywords: Continual learning; Teaching philosophy; Action research; PDSA; Online learning; First year experience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11213-019-09492-x Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:syspar:v:33:y:2020:i:4:d:10.1007_s11213-019-09492-x

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/journal/11213

DOI: 10.1007/s11213-019-09492-x

Access Statistics for this article

Systemic Practice and Action Research is currently edited by Robert Flood

More articles in Systemic Practice and Action Research from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().