Student collaboration and engagement – is it more than flipping a classroom?

Abstract

As the notion of a ‘flipped classroom’ takes hold, it is timely to consider the types of learning design that promote student collaboration and the efforts required by faculty to ensure their success. Student collaboration is part and parcel of an active approach. The operating premises are that, with heightened engagement with learning materials and greater flexibility and autonomy in their application, students working in productive groups will move into deeper thinking processes. In this talk, I examine some of the opportunities and fallacies of the flipped classroom notion and expand upon examples at The University of Hong Kong where the design of both the curriculum and learning spaces by teams of dedicated staff is supporting collaborative learning.