Guidebook_CreatingACollaborativeLearningEnvironment. SOLO taxonomy. I am pleased to say that John Biggs himself has endorsed this representation of his ideas; "I've just found your website on SOLO et al. via google. I'm delighted! Your diagrams of prestructural-extended abstract are very elegant... " (Unsolicited email, 29 May 2005) The SOLO taxonomy stands for: Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes It describes level of increasing complexity in a student's understanding of a subject, through five stages, and it is claimed to be applicable to any subject area.
I confess to a slight distrust of this kind of "progressive" model, which aspires inexorably to a final state. However, the emerging field of work on Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge links in very effectively with the SOLO taxonomy and offers some points about how the above issues might be addressed. There is a small but enthusiastic group of teachers using the SOLO taxonomy to structure their teaching in schools, and blogging about it.
Moodle 2: Best Practices for Course Creators - Ireland and UK Moodlemoot 2012. Using-student-evaluations-to-enhance-teaching-practice-closing-the-loop. Improving the effectiveness of large-class teaching in law degrees. Sascha Mueller, Ursula Cheer, Lynne Taylor, Elizabeth ToomeyAuthors Associate Professor Lynne Taylor, Professor Ursula Cheer, Professor Neil Boister, Professor Elizabeth Toomey, Sascha Mueller, Dr Debra Wilson – University of Canterbury. Date completed: May 2012 About the project In this project, a group of 6 University of Canterbury School of Law lecturers investigated current methods of teaching large compulsory law classes. They undertook an extensive study of the expectations and experiences of large-class teaching and learning at the Law School from the perspectives of both students and teachers. They focussed on identifying appropriate effective methods for teaching the skills of analysis, synthesis, critique and evaluation to large classes in existing teaching rooms, supported by limited hours of small group face-to-face teaching.
Individual School of Law national and international. Methodology The 6 parts of the project were: Themes Implementation Presentations. Heutagogy Community of Practice | Advancing the Theory and Practice of Self-Determined Learning. Tertiary Learning and Teaching Conference Programme.pdf.