Dr. LAM Bick Har

What is Formative feedback?

Formative feedback is generated by teachers as strategies to engage learners to constantly reflect on how they can approach, orient, and evaluate learning, which leads to successful learning outcomes. It is usually conducted regularly in the classrooms by various forms, including written and spoken forms. Learning through frequent responses can be motivational, informative and corrective (Buczynski, 2009).

Please cite as:
Lam, B. H. (2013). Formative Feedback. Retrieved from https://aclass.eduhk.hk/

What is Experiential Learning?

Based on the concept of “learning by doing” by psychologist John Dewey, Kolb and Rogers build their models for experiential learning. Rogers(1969) highlighted the importance of experiential learning, which is about the application knowledge, in contrast to cognitive learning, which is the academic knowledge such as vocabulary learning. Rogers believes that experiential learning addresses the needs and wants of individual and is related to personal change and growth.

What is cooperative learning?

Cooperative learning is a student-centered, instructor-facilitated instructional strategy in which a small group of students is responsible for its own learning and the learning of all group members. Students interact with each other in the same group to acquire and practice the elements of a subject matter in order to solve a problem, complete a task or achieve a goal.

Please cite as:
Li, M. P. & Lam, B. H. (2013). Cooperative Learning. Retrieved from https://aclass.eduhk.hk/

What is Constructivist Learning and Teaching?

The philosophy behind constructivist pedagogies is that humans can understand only what they have themselves constructed. A cross-disciplinary nature of constructivism has facilitated the development of various branches of learning and teaching theories.

What is Authentic Learning?

Authentic learning means learning which happens by actually participating and working on real-world problems, it engages learners by the opportunities of solving real-world complex problems and finding out solutions, in this way learners practice the skills and knowledge that are relevant and real to workplace situations and learn it at the same time. Authentic learning activities include role-playing exercises, problem based activities, case studies, and participation in virtual communities of practice.