The impact of delayed instructional support on adult learners in the ODL context

Nantha Kumar , Subramaniam and Maheswari, Kandasamy (2012) The impact of delayed instructional support on adult learners in the ODL context. In: 12th International Conference of Information (ICI12), 12-13 December 2012, Kuala Lumpur.

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Abstract

This paper investigated whether productive failure (PF) as an instructional strategy boosts students’ understanding on the subject matter in a face-to-face tutorial. PF instructional design advocates the delaying of support for the learners during the learning. This paper reports an initial study of a quasi-experimental that compares a ‘‘productive failure’’ instructional design with a traditional ‘‘lecture and practice’’ instructional design for a 2-hour tutorial session attended by adult learners. A total of 17 adult learners participated in the study. Learners experienced either a traditional lecture and practice teaching cycle or a PF cycle, where they solved complex problems in small groups without the provision of any support or scaffolds up until a consolidation lecture by their teacher during the last hour of the tutorial. Findings suggest that learners from the PF condition produced a variety of problem models and methods for solving the problems but were unsuccessful in their efforts, be it in groups or individually. Despite failing in their group and individual problem-solving efforts, learners from the PF condition performed better than their counterparts from the lecture and practice condition on both knowledge and higher order application problems based on the post-test. (Abstract by authors)

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information: This paper was presented during the 12th International Conference of Information (ICI12) on 12-13 December 2012 at Kuala Lumpur
Uncontrolled Keywords: Productive Failure, Adult Learners
Subjects: L Education > LC Special aspects of education > LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
L Education > LC Special aspects of education > LC5800 Distance education
Divisions: Faculty of Information Technology and Multimedia Communication
Depositing User: Shahril Effendi Ibrahim
Date Deposited: 18 Dec 2012 05:56
Last Modified: 15 May 2013 02:06
URI: http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/id/eprint/843

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