Co-creating a Learning to Learn Initiative
Keywords:
First year students, Learning strategies, students as partners, Higher education, Study habitsAbstract
This case study presents the development and implementation of a Learning to Learn initiative in an introductory interprofessional course for 600 first-year students from 12 health professions education programs. The initiative derived from a bigger health promotion project aiming to improve students’ health and well-being, and the specific aim of the project described in this case study was to support students' learning. Grounded in principles from Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), we collaborated with teachers and students who had previously been involved in this course to develop Learning to Learn and integrate it in the course. In this paper, we aim to describe the development and implementation of Learning to Learn in a large and diverse group of first-year students in ways that other institutions can learn from. Based upon our experiences from this pilot, we argue that there is a potential for teachers and students to work in partnerships for a shared understanding of learning processes.
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