Collaborative Learning

From: Andy Blunden (andy@mira.net)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 02:39:52 PST


Today I got an enquiry from a guy in a Canadian University wanting to do a
job-swap. I didn't have a good enough match with his skills so I couldn't
take him up on it, but it seemed like a great idea. Though academics get
many opportunities for such things, us technical and admin. staff rarely do.

So it did occur to me that I could use this list to ask the following:

Do any of you guys work in a North American University that might be
interested in offering me a 12 or 6 months job? What I can do is design
classrooms which are intended to facilitate "collaborative learning". Maybe
some of you get frustrated from time to time at how unsuitable the
classrooms you are working in are for the kind of teaching you want to do?
that the administration never ask your opinion or consult you about your
needs? maybe you could convince your administrators to engage someone who
works more collaboratively with faculty? Maybe you could show them my web
page - http://www.ists.unimelb.edu.au/ts/reports.htm and get them
interested in doing something different. From what I see of North American
classrooms they seem to be designed for the teaching methods of the 19th
century.

Apologies for using this list opportunistically.

Andy
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* Andy Blunden, Teaching Space Support Team Leader
* Email ablunden@unimelb.edu.au or andy@mira.net
* http://home.mira.net/~andy/ or http://www.ists.unimelb.edu.au
* University of Melbourne (61 3) 8344 0312, (61 3) 9380 9435 (H)
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