Building, Gaming and Mentoring: students’ learning in construction

Students’ learning is reminiscent of a building’s life cycle. It entails erecting and dismantling scaffolds, building the “products”, engaging with relevant stakeholders, and monitoring their performance.

In this lecture, Dr Lim presented a teaching model which integrates the concepts of scaffolding, experiential learning, problem- & game-based learning and mentoring, which has been developed to facilitate students’ learning in construction courses.

Exploring survey results, Dr Lim also discussed the model’s impact on student engagement. We found out how scenario-based team brainstorming games helped enhance students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills and, more importantly, how they built team camaraderie for their subsequent scenario-based group assignment.

In addition to the incentivised gaming elements, the model includes guest lectures, reflective blogs and mentoring. Dr Lim explored how mentorship with industry practitioners and senior peers enables students to further develop their independent thinking, commercial awareness and judgement, making them better prepared for the industry. Dr Lim also announced his newly developed “family-like” mentoring program in the construction and property program, involving three types of mentorship.

Author:	Remi Hatsumi (via theBox)
Created:	12/11/2018
Updated:	23/04/2019
Theme:	Default
Tags:	Scientia Education Academy Lecture Series Lecture
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