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Project-Based Approach to Enhance Online Learning: A Case of Teaching Systems Thinking and System Dynamics Modeling

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Teaching online poses challenges in terms of meaningful student engagement, physical interactions, and also delivering the content. To keep students actively engaged and motivated for their learning and to achieve the intended learning outcomes of a course, it is essential to implement appropriate learner-centric pedagogy. For this, project-based approach favors collaborative learning in small groups and offers opportunities to engage students for effective and active participation online. Any systems thinking course also requires a project/problem-based approach to enable students to learn to model real-world problems. This chapter presents an example of the implementation of a project-based approach to teach systems thinking and system dynamics modeling while engaging students in online settings. It also focuses on how students can be engaged online effectively to learn collaboratively from the project, and through a workable framework of TPACK. The author integrates content knowledge (CK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and technology-enabled learning (TPK) via Zoom as the online platform.

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    Sreenivasulu Bellam

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Bellam, S. (2023). Project-Based Approach to Enhance Online Learning: A Case of Teaching Systems Thinking and System Dynamics Modeling. In: So-Sum Wai-Cook, M., Saleh, A., Bista, K. (eds) Online Teaching and Learning in Asian Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38129-4_5

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