Title:	TOWARD A LEARNING ORGANIZATION MODEL FOR STUDENT EMPOWERMENT: A TEACHER-DESIGNER’S EXPERIENCE AS A COACH BY THE SIDE
Author(s):	Kam Hou Vat
ISBN:	972-98947-7-9
Editors:	Kinshuk, Demetrios Sampson and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2004
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Collaborative learning, constructivism, learning organization, problem-based learning, student empowerment, community of learners.
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	131
Last Page:	140
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	This paper investigates a learner-centered model for student empowerment from the perspective of collaborative learning. Specifically, our discussion renders the idea of a learning organization in the development of such a model targeted for a class of students, led by the teacher-designer, to be transformed into a community of learners. The paper discusses the new roles of the students as well as the teacher, to be collaborators and active participants in the renewed educational process. We also describe our current experiences in classroom organization and course management in terms of such components as the pedagogy, which has been selected as problem-based learning (PBL) for its operational richness and practicality for group-based project work among students in preparation for their later professional careers, and the curriculum under experimentation, which is a junior core course in our undergraduate degree program in Software Engineering, for its flexibility to fit our course delivery into a collaborative learning environment. Essentially, this paper serves as an expression of our ongoing action research to document the efforts in blending the constructivist theory of learning with the technical reality of university education to equip students in the real-world profession of their own choice, through transforming the teacher as the coach by the side, instead of the sage on the stage, presumed with the power of knowledge transmission.
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