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Building, Gaming and Mentoring: students’ learning in construction

25 October 2018
5.00pm – 6.30pm AEDT
Tyree Room, John Niland Scientia Building
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photo of young people constructing wooden model

A UNSW Scientia Education Academy public lecture

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 will present 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 will discuss the model’s impact on student engagement. We’ll find 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 will explore 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 will also announce his newly developed “family-like” mentoring program in the construction and property program, involving three types of mentorship.

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