Collaborative and Cooperative Learning in Forest Higher Education. From Teaching Forestry to Learning Forestry

Collaborative and Cooperative Learning in Forestry Higher Education From Teaching Forestry to Learning Forestry Juan Picos Forest Engineering School University of Vigo - Galicia - Spain Brno 05.12.08

This presentation is a general approach to Cooperative Learning from the personal point of view of a professor at Forestry School.

It is complemented with a brief explanation of the experience of using some specific tools for that purpose.

Collaborative

One Content Many Contents Cooperative

BUT FORESTRY HAS ALWAYS BEEN COOPERATIVE !!!

Is not only a matter of Learning Concepts and Information

it is also a matter of Learning Capabilities :

How to improve Critical Reading

How to Select and Filter Information.

How to Recongize a Good Source

How to Manage Information

How to present results and proposals

How to Dicuss and Debate

Efficient Team Work

How to have information up-to-date

How to use information in other languages

…

How to see trees from the forest.

how to look at the forest

how to guess what can be seen (lookin for traces)

how to ask

From “OLD CLASS” to “METACLASS” a two-stage revolution stage 1

New Role of the Teacher / Instructor

- Consultants and information facilitators - Learning facilitators

- Learning Media Designer - Moderators and Virtual tutors - Continuous evaluator and advisor - Career counselor

New Role of the Teacher / Instructor

- Consultants and information facilitators - Learning facilitators

- Learning Media Designer - Moderators and Virtual tutors - Continuous evaluator and advisor - Career counselor

All that and … for the same salary?

Social and active learning must be encouraged (student-teacher) Students cooperate with other students and the teacher (student-collaborator ) Teamwork is endorsed (student-cooperator) New Role of the students / Learners

Social and active learning must be encouraged (student-teacher) Students cooperate with other students and the teacher (student-collaborator ) Teamwork is endorsed (student-cooperator) New Role of the students / Learners But this is not what we have been doing since we first attend school

From “OLD CLASS” to “METACLASS” a two-stage revolution Post graduate students

Professionals

Consultants

Researchers

Public-servants

Industry

Other clases Other subjects Other related disciplines Other clases Same Subjects other Universities / regions / countries METACLASS stage 2 The Class

Learning with web 2.0 tools

Blogs (CMs, Blogger, Wordpress, ...)

Wikis (Wikispaces...)

Creation & edition of images, videos and presentations ( Flickr, Youtube, Slideshare)

Microblogging, social networks: Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook, MySpace

Inormation clasification (links, directories…) del.icio.us, Furl, CiteULike

Specialized browsers: Google Scholar, Technorati, Blogsearch

Feeders: Google Reader, Bloglines…

…

Open Code.

Low cost or even free

Tool integration feasible

Easy to learn

Tuneable to (almost) every specific need

Widespread

Chracteristics

Visual Map of Web 2.0 http://www.internality.com/web20/

Map of my own experience

License and Contact Details Juan Picos Mart í n Universidade de Vigo Dpto. Enxe ñ er í a dos Recursos Naturais e Medio Ambiente Escola Universitaria de Enxe ñ eiros en Industrias Forestais Campus A Xunqueira s/n - E36005 Pontevedra - Spain Tel: + 34 986 80 20 35 Fax: + 34 986 80 19 07 [email_address] http://webs.uvigo.es/jpicos http://silvicultor.blogspot.com http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/es/ This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons 2.5 License

Collaborative and Cooperative Learning in Forestry Higher Education From Teaching Forestry to Learning Forestry Juan Picos Forest Engineering School University of Vigo - Galicia - Spain Brno 05.12.08