Using Collaborative learning and blended learning with Macau undergraduate students inside and outside university classroom

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Using Collaborative learning and blended learning with Macau undergraduate students inside and outside university classroom
Abstract
This thesis reports a mixed methods empirical research which included a university-wide survey and action research in form of a quasi-experiment in collaborative blended learning (CBL) with Macau undergraduate students. The intervention embodied the principles of social constructivism and investigated the putative benefits and challenges of CBL. The purpose of the study was to identify how to promote effective CBL in undergraduate students and to increase effective learning, motivation, autonomy, empowerment, and communication. It found that only small improvements to students’ CBL took place over time, and found that the students needed specific instruction, practice and development in how to collaborate, both with and without online learning. Despite being in a world-leading, enriched digital environment, the students were new to collaboration and online learning. Students discovered and appreciated the benefits and challenges to collaboration and CBL largely by doing it. The thesis shows that CBL does not release teachers from their instructional and pedagogical roles; rather they place teachers at the heart of effective practice and improvements. The study underpins the need for explicit training of students in CBL. It identifies several strategies and tools which can be useful to promote effective genuine CBL
University
University of Saint Joseph
Place
Macau
Date
2015
Notes

Supervisor : Keith Morrison & Ana Maria Correia; In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of PhD in Education in the School of Education, University of Saint Joseph, 2015; Includes bibliography and index

Citation
Monteiro, E. P. J. F. R. (2015). Using Collaborative learning and blended learning with Macau undergraduate students inside and outside university classroom [University of Saint Joseph]. http://library-opac.usj.edu.mo/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=174037