Course coordinators add readings to their course ideally to support, extend, and connect student thinking about the content explicitly delivered in the face-to-face and the
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Helping students distribute group work evenly
This is the 19th post in a series titled ‘All Things Group Work’. The home page is here. In a previous post outlining the pedagogy behind
Chunking as a pedagogy
Chunking involves breaking up new learning into discrete sections in order to avoid cognitive overload, and to promote schema development. Using cognitive science to explain
Group formation – the role of gender identity
This is the 16th post in a series titled ‘All Things Group Work’ and written in collaboration with Simon Nagy from the University of Adelaide*.
All Things Group Work
Group work as a pedagogy has a host of benefits. From a cognitive perspective, the interaction with and evaluation of others’ ideas can help confirm
THE POWER OF MAKING CONNECTIONS
”As the student accommodates this new learning into their LTM, then the complexity of the next task can be increased. As Ericsson and Kintsch (1995)
LEARNING DESIGN by Paul G Moss 