Introduction to Participant Centered Learning

Dr Wade HalvorsonProfessor of Digital Marketing

Wad HalberstadtVirtual World Researcher

Dr Wade HalvorsonProfessor of Digital Marketing

Wad HalberstadtVirtual World Researcher

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Participant Centered Learning

Flipped classrooms

Learning communities

Digital Disruption

How are you going to get it?

Think differentBuild higher order

thinking skills

Look for what is possible

Come to class prepared and

Participate in active learning

Evaluation

Synthesis

Analysis

Application

Understanding

Knowledge

Higher order thinking skills

90%of whatthey do

70%of what theysay and write

50% of what they see and hear

30% of what they see

20% of what they hear

10% of what they read

People generally remember…

Learning Activities

Active Learning

PassiveLearning

90%of whatthey do

70%of what theysay and write

50% of what they see and hear

30% of what they see

20% of what they hear

10% of what they read

People generally remember… People are able to….

Define List Describe Explain

Demonstrate Apply Practice

Analyze Define Create Evaluate

Learning Activities Learning Outcomes

Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap Deep Smarts (2005) Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press

Tacit, unarticulated knowledge

Receptors

Explanation

We Use Case Study Methodology

3-12

• Less about knowledge transfer in one direction, from the professor to the students

• More about student interaction with each other in a joint effort to arrive at helpful principles and frameworks

Learning NOT teaching

3-13

• Conveys an obligation to students to help fellow students learn by participating in the search for frameworks, principles

• The professor “orchestrates” rather than forces the development of ideas and theoretical frameworks

Learning Contract

Remember…

Prepare yourself for success in a digitally disrupted world by being an active participant in your learning.

And don’t forget….doing your MBA can be fun!