Pedaglue teaching for life-long learners: rapid development by post-graduates of a PG course with modern content

Abstract

In developing countries, students are sensitive to the cost of education and lecturers do not have much support. We present a new, constructivist technique for educators in developing countries, of lifelong benefit to their students. Course materials are often incoherent to students until a lecturer does an analysis and provides the pedagogical links or glue. So we taught a class how to provide pedagogical links themselves, a technique we call the Teaching of PedaGlue. We teach the processes that lecturers perform on material to make it suitable for students: how to access, process, create, share, and apply knowledge. Systematically and intentionally we teach students how to do this didactisizing (pedagogical process) themselves, and thereby rapidly develop new, modern, dynamic instructional reference material. They developed a large, comprehensive, annotated, organised corpus of recent, relevant references that is now published. Success factors included the prior teaching of research methods, and resources, key keywords, and a template for critical reviewing.