Project Leader: Helle Rootzen
The project will explore, propose and test methods to promote student-driven e-learning. How do you create a similar "spirit" as experienced in hackerthons? Can you imagine that students get together for a "theme" and even organize the learning process themselves - perhaps across competence levels? What is the role of the teachers? Will the weak students suffer - or will they be strengthened? There are many questions. This project will try to answer some of them and will also identify whether there is a basis to begin a more wide-reaching project that can be supported by additional funding. A "side effect" of student driven / student based e-learning is to minimize the use of resources – and this is becoming more and more urgent in university teaching. When the number of students increases, there are requirements for advances, and an increased student demand for individualized instruction. It is also for this reason we have to think in new ways.
The effect is better learning which creates more enthusiasm, commitment and ownership. Student-driven e-learning in diverse learning communities will be organized as blended learning, and e-learning will be a significant part. The project will come up with suggestions on how e-learning may be done when the students are the driving force, which may lead to quite different ideas now than those constructed by a generation that did not grew up with computers.
Grant: DKK 300,000 for project “Student based learning in multi-facetted learning communities – STUDeNT-learn, from DTU’s e-learning fund, 2015-16
Newest publication: Rootzén, H. Individualized Learning Through Non-linear use of Learning Objects – With Examples From Math and Stat. Proceedings of the 14th European conference on e-learning – ECEL15.
Background (in Danish)