INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF SELF-ORGANIZED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT) IN HIGHER EDUCATION TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ LEARNING, EDUCATIONAL INSPIRATION, AND COMMITMENT IN E – COURSE
Keywords:
Big Question, Collaborative Learning. SOLEAbstract
Soles (Self Organized Learning Environment) can be performed at any situation whenever the educator inspires the students to work in a group and answer a Big Question using the internet. It is the student driven Collaborative Learning; a widespread research was done among school students which verifies its effectiveness among school learners. Use of SOLEs is seldom in the higher education. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of SOLE in terms of learning, motivation and engagement of the Learners. 100, 2nd semester learners of school of Physiotherapy will serve as the subjects for the study, a regular course will be taught by creating SOLE. Create a curiosity in the Learners mind by asking a big question. Or are challenged to think of their own they can make their own group and can change group any time and explore the answer in any direction all the groups expected to present what they have learn in the end of the session. Students will be empowered to take ownership of their learning experience. The academic score, cloud course usage and course feedback will be taken from the students which will be analysed and compared with the previous batches’ performance. From these, small sample, studies, we conclude that groups of students, using the Internet, can answer test questions and score good marks in the internal exams. The retention power of the topic is also increased when they work in the group and discuss the problem as it become an event rather than a session or class full of lectures. More research is needed in the higher education and in different domain also to prove the efficiency of SOLE among collegiate Students.
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