All Ireland Society for Higher Education
| Name: | Geraldine O'Neill |
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| Email: | geraldine.m.oneill@ucd.ie |
| Institution: | University College Dublin |
Moore, Ivan, Ivan.Moore@manchester.ac.uk
Enquiry-based learning is a term that is used to describe an approach to learning that encourages students' engagement with learning initiated by 'a complex problem or scenario-that is sufficiently open-ended to allow a variety of responses or solutions' (Kahn & O'Rourke, 2005, p2). Using this approach, students are often required to work in groups of 5-20, however with large classes this can lead to the need to support large numbers of groups.
Academic staff who would like to change to a more enquiry-based approach are often hindered by the challenges involved in supporting this use of group work in large class settings (Rangachari, 1996). There have been a few suggestions from the literature on how the facilitation of large classes might be achieved (Pastirik, 2006; Albanese & Mitchell, 1993).
This poster will visually outline a few selected strategies for facilitating group work in large EBL groups, drawn from both the literature and examples of practice. The poster, it is hoped, will in itself provide a trigger at the AISHE conference for further discussion on other possible strategies for this 'problem'.
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