TEACHING WITH TINY ARTICLES AS AN APPROACH TO STIMULATE TRUSTFUL AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING

Abstract

"The current Corona crises demonstrates the challenge of a fruitful and trustful learning dynamics among people with largely varying backgrounds. The dynamics may easily lead to separating people into groups with attributed properties which finally impairs the learning process. In this study we aimed at designing a new teaching concept for first grade bachelor students in pedagogics, psychology and sports science visiting a lecture on „Learning and Working Strategies “. This included to integrate the students from largely varying background in one teaching program. In order to achieve this goal, we created a novel format of a simplified scientific publication (e.g., a journal paper), called Tiny Article. We asked the students to write a weekly Tiny Article based on their thoughts about the lectures. By writing and sharing their weekly Tiny Article, the students learned to formulate their reflections and insights as well as to share and complement their understandings in a virtual common brain. This collection of knowledge, ideas and reflections were also shared with the teachers of the lectures and opened the discussion of possibilities for networked learning and working in mixed teams."