Seminar: Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching (MELT): forging connections

Dr John Willison, Senior Lecturer at the School of Education presents this webinar is on the Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching.

The MELT not only foster, but rely on, the professional judgement of teachers to design and implement learning that students get their teeth into. The first mechanism for this teacher engagement is adaptation of one’s own MELT, so that it is fit-for-context. It was not an academic decision to create that mechanism but an organic one. As the archetypal MELT, the Research Skill Development (RSD) framework, was piloted and evaluated in numerous universities from 2006 to 2016, what emerged alongside the use of the RSD were frameworks based on its parameters but adapted by educators to fit their context. These models included the Work Skill Development framework, the Clinical Reflection Skills Framework, the Optimising Problem Solving framework; the Digital Skills Development framework, Research Mountain a song for ECE and the i-Talitali framework out of the University of the South Pacific. These and other MELT, as we called them retrospectively, share the same parameters but use appropriate terminology and configuration to speak into their context. The combination of something in common, something different is one of the features of the MELT that can help forge connections across disparate contexts to help students see, not a lot of individual educational trees, but their own forest of learning.

This webinar introduces the MELT and the Open Access Springer book by that name. Some of the authors of the above MELT will briefly discuss the thinking underlying the development of their model.

All the above models have been published separately and are also in the MELT book. You might want to browse the book in advance of the webinar https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-2683-1 
See also www.melt.edu.au

For further information about Dr Willisons research and contact details: https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/john.willison