Using a T5 instructional design model in the large-enrollment biology classes: method to promote cooperative learning in an undergraduate study

Abstract

Lecture-based teaching style is commonly used in much undergraduate teaching at universities around the country including Ubon Rajathanee University. Although students' ratings of those lecture-based courses and instructors were high because they just enjoyed listening to their teachers, most of the students did not qualify to proceed in any advance courses. In addition, the students do not get enough chance to work as a group, share ideas. as well as develop their critical thinking skills. To promote all of these meaningful learning strategies, the Faculty of Science, Ubon Rajathanee University, implemented an instructional design model called T5 to provide a shared campus-wide vocabulary for active learning online. The model is embedded as a gateway to existing learning management systems; the model promotes the creation of a learning environment with a collaborative-constructivist approach to online learning integrated with discussion-based lecture. In this paper. the author described the components of T5 instructional design model, how the model promoted an integrated instructional approach, and how this model fit into a large biology class, as well as the integration of T5-based learning with the discussion-based lecture. ln addition, the author described how students responded to this learning model, how the model cultivated cooperative learning and helped students learned better, as well as how the T5 instructional learning model was used in small and non-available Internet classes.