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Active learning link-up for Harvard and Warwick
LEFT: Warwick and Harvard are researching how creative learning through the arts impacts on students
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"THERE IS PLENTY OF RESEARCH DETAILING HOW USING THE ARTS AND GETTING STUDENTS OUT OF THEIR SEATS IMPROVES THEIR ABILITY TO LEARN"
Harvard University is in discussions with Warwick Business School to explore new ways of learning that will offer far more than ‘chalk and talk’. With the number of people
signing up to MOOCs rising, and online courses proliferating business schools around the world, giving potential students a richer learning experience at university campuses is becoming ever more imperative. Warwick Business School has
responded by developing ‘active learning’ where students are taken out of the comfort of their chairs to join and work together through mini-case studies, role-playing different scenarios, creating music and even seeing their discussions animated by a cartoonist. It has devoted a department – WBS Create – to inject active learning into its
classes, such as creating a case study that uses ancient Greek land Thebes from the story of Antigone as an emerging market. Now Harvard University is in
discussions with Warwick Business School to explore even more new ways of learning. “People can learn a lot of things
online but if they are going to come to a university much of what they can learn is inter-personal, working with each other, with the faculty, being physically present,” said Terry Aladjem, Director for Special Initiatives at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University, who is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Warwick. WBS Create has provided its faculty
with an A-Z teaching toolkit on how to use ‘active learning’ in modules. For instance students may find themselves acting as consultants looking
to invest in Thebes, the land and seting for Sophocles’ Greek tragedy Antigone, and are set to meet its Creon ruler. Rather than a room full of chairs
lined up towards a white screen, ‘active learning’ sees classes in open spaces. Warwick and Harvard are researching
how creative learning through the arts impacts on students and how it can be implemented in the lecture theatre. Professor Jonothan Neelands, head
of WBS Create, said: “There is plenty of research detailing how using the arts and geting students out of their seats improves their ability to learn. We want to build on this and explore ways of employing this in the lecture rooms of the top universities in the world, such as Warwick and Harvard. We want our students to leave not just with the knowledge, but with the ability to be creative and critical thinkers.”
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