ERIC Number: EJ1066758
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Apr
Pages: 7
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ISSN: ISSN-1913-9020
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Group Dynamics and Peer-Tutoring: A Pedagogical Tool for Learning in Higher Education
Qureshi, Muhammad Azeem; Stormyhr, Even
International Education Studies, v5 n2 p118-124 Apr 2012
The increasing diversity in students' enrolment in higher education in Norway offers an opportunity to use collaborative learning and teamwork as a learning vehicle to exploit the synergy in the community to have formal and informal "agoras". Theoretical and empirical observation of the value of team processes provides the framework to personify our understanding of learning and present a model for teaching in higher education in Norway. We consider learning as a holistic process and one must appreciate its dynamics and be flexible and responsive to it. Moreover, such a view of the entire process necessitates an active communication with all stakeholders of the system and to make an integrative and coordinated effort to ensure availability of the required institutional resources, equitable distribution of the students' resources, and a smooth transition from the traditional lecturing to this form of collaborative learning to make higher educational institution a learning organization. We report a positive feedback from the students attending two courses at School of Business at HiOA, indicating that students consider this teaching method adding more value compared to traditional lecturing.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Diversity, College Students, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Teaching Methods, Business Administration Education, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Surveys, Models
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway
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