Title: An effective teaching plan to introduce professional and practice-based education at tertiary institution

Authors: Azizur Rahman

Addresses: School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Boorooma Street, Estella, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia

Abstract: Nowadays, the notion of professional and practice-based education (P&PBE) is a hot topic at tertiary education. P&PBE prepares the learners for profession oriented practice. It is always very challenging to introduce a P&PBE component within a service teaching subject in any academic fields. This paper focuses on the development of an effective teaching strategy for practical classes of a subject having highly technical and professionally applied contents at the university that directly tackles the challenge of introducing the P&PBE element in it. A case study has been conducted with an undergraduate level service subject in statistics for the science programs at the Charles Sturt University. Findings reveal that in the scientific subject a P&PBE component can be introduced as practical classes which foster profession oriented practice based problem-solving skills of students through a collaboratively effective and joyful learning environment. These findings are supported by some of the existing literature and the students' evaluation.

Keywords: learning; PCK; pedagogical content knowledge; professional and practice-based education; session leadership; statistics discipline; SWOT analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLC.2018.093197

International Journal of Learning and Change, 2018 Vol.10 No.3, pp.185 - 197

Accepted: 01 Nov 2017
Published online: 13 Jul 2018 *

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