Using Social Constructivism to Drive Team Pedagogy Across Traditional, Online, and Blended Higher Education Classrooms

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Using action research approaches, a team composed of a university instructional design specialist and instructors of tradition on-ground, fully online, and blended courses explore the use of team/group approaches within their classrooms for the purposes of developing critical thinking, the ways in which these strategies were utilized and adapted to specific course learning environments and populations, and the impact of these approaches on student perceptions of team work in higher education. The team’s instructional designer will introduce the project and the design theory forming the project’s foundation. Instructors will then discuss their specific approaches to course development within this aim, compare and contrast these approaches, explore how course format influences student perception, and the overarching lessons for improved practice.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Learning Environments

Chair

• Jenelle Hodges, The Univeristy of Alabama at Birmingham

Papers

• Closing the Gap Between Group Work and Teamwork: Instructional Design Across Higher Education Learning Sites - Jenelle Hodges, The Univeristy of Alabama at Birmingham

• The Effect of Quality Design on Students' Perceived Effectiveness of Team Dynamics in Online Learning - Claire Mowling, The University of Alabama - Birmingham

• Transforming Group Work: Promoting Professional Relationships and Critical Thinking Among Graduate Students in Hybrid Classrooms - Josephine Prado, University of Alabama at Birmingham

• Social Constructivism and Teamwork Approaches to Quality Pedagogy in Graduate Research Methodology Courses - Jenna Michelle LaChenaye, The University of Alabama - Birmingham