SYNOPSIS

In this workshop, participants will learn how to form and support students in developing team-working skills and learn together in their teams in a typical classroom based on the principles of Cooperative Learning (CL).  Participants will also learn how to design effective learning environments (including projects) with the necessary scaffolding and assessment.  Practical implementation aspects as well as tips and pitfalls to avoid will be shared by facilitators who are practitioners of the approach for more than ten years.

This workshop imparts an overall view of conducting student centered learning (SCL) in classes, which can be used to fulfil the requirements of Outcome-based Education (OBE), to lecturers or trainers.  This is the second workshop of four parts on effective implementation of SCL techniques.  As a follow-up to Part 1, more elegant formal cooperative learning techniques, as well as when and how to use them to form learning teams among students, will be the discussed.  

Learning outcomes:-

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
1.    form and support development of learning teams in classrooms
2.    explain and use the 5 principles of cooperative learning to develop learning teams
3.    explain a formal cooperative learning structure
4.    design and plan learning environments that support the development of learning teams


BIODATA OF SPEAKERS

Dr. Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof is the Director of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Centre for Engineering Education (CEE), which promotes meaningful research and scholarly practices in engineering education.  She obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.  She is the Vice President for Asia and Oceania for the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), the Secretary for the Society of Engineering Education Malaysia (SEEM), and board member for the International Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN).  A Master Trainer for the Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT) under the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education, she has been an invited speaker in various engineering education conferences and workshops in Asia, Europe and North America.  Her engineering education research focuses on innovative teaching and learning practices, curriculum design, faculty development, talent pipeline and Engineering Education for Sustainable Development.  Currently, Dr. Khairiyah is in the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Engineering Education, ASEAN Journal of Engineering Education, IChemE Journal of Education for Chemical Engineers, European Journal of Engineering Education and the Journal of PBL in Higher Education.  


Dr. Syed Ahmad Helmi is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and is affiliated to the UTM Regional Centre for Engineering Education.  He is currently the Graduate Programme Coordinator for the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.  He has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master in Mechanical – Advanced Manufacturing Technology, and a PhD in Engineering Education.  Prior to joining UTM, he had worked as an engineer in various industries, such as Intel and Sime Darby.  He is among the first cohort of graduates of the PhD in Engineering Education program from UTM.  Dr. Syed Helmi was one of the plenary speakers at the inaugural ASEE International Forum in June 2012 in San Antonio, Texas, USA, an invited speaker at the SSKU Hub Centre for Innovative Engineering Education Workshop in January 2013 in Jeju Island, Korea, and won the best paper award at the 2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference in Amman, Jordan.  His research areas are problem solving in engineering, manufacturing systems and optimization, and facilities design and planning.