CHS: Interactive Design - Interdisciplinary Shared Research Module
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Overview
The Interdisciplinary Shared Research Module is a module offered to various disciplines within the CHS Faculty, including Departments of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, School of Natural Medicine, Dietetics and the Interprofessional Education Unit. Students engaged in this module were familiarised with both qualitative and quantitative research methods over a period of two weeks.
Lecturers that presented the module:
Prof. Shaheed Soeker, Prof. Lisa Wegner, Prof. Ernie Kunneke, Dr Tania Steyl, Dr. Farhana Karachi, Dr. Thuli Mthembu, Dr. Wagheda Cassiem, Mrs Jill Wilkenson, Ms Labeeqah Jaffer, Mrs Elsabe Nel & Mr A Latief.
Welcoming introductions by lecturers
The lecturers created a welcoming environment by creating an introductory video. In addition, a ‘Meet the team’ page was created, whereby each lecturer gave a brief introduction of themselves and their biographies.
Lessons are presented in a two week block period
Weekly lessons were structured and aligned with the course outcomes and learning activities. Each lesson started off with an introduction to the session and specific lecturing materials (presentations, article readings and other materials) were embedded. This enabled students to view the resources online and/or download and read offline.
Course Resources structured according to lessons
This eTool was used by the lecturer to structure and distribute related learning material and lecture content. The students were able to download the lecture content and other multimedia resources.
Discussion Forum: active engagement by students
The discussion forum was used for engagement between the lecturer and students. The lecturers posted various topics within the Discussion forum and students were required to post their meaningful contributions to their peers. This space promoted active student participation. This promoted an asynchronous learning environment and allowed students to read and reflect on their responses - encouraging peer learning.
Meetings Tool
The lecturers made use of this platform to conduct their ‘live’ online sessions. The meetings tool is effective to the students because it allows them to join the class connecting through the VPN, which allows them not to incur any data. During the class the students can unmute themselves and ask the lecturer questions which allows for an interactive online engagement in real-time. The Meeting was recorded and students were able to watch the lecture afterwards to reinforce their learning.
Online test and group assignment submission
Students engaged in an online test which drew in questions from various question banks. The questions were multiple choice questions and were aligned to various topics presented during the two week period.
At the end of this block teaching period the students submit group assignments. The assignment was linked to Turnitin especially since this module focused on research and writing. Students engaged in a peer evaluation activity and rated the group participation.
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