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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Active Learning in Maritime Education
Yoshiaki Kunieda1, Koji Murai2
(1. Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan;
2. Kobe University, Japan)
Abstract: In recent years, active learning has been highlighted as a more effective educational technique. Maritime education has generally consisted of a lecture in the classroom and onboard training. We have introduced active learning into the classroom lecture process. And we investigated the effect of this active learning-type lesson. In this paper, an exercise involving pair and group discussions was conducted, student assessment of which showed that around 60 percent of students found the lesson to be “very good” or “good”. Furthermore, after giving a presentation following the group discussion, about 72 percent of students felt that the lesson was “very good” or “good”. Thus, there was a generally positive assessment of both the first and second active learning-type lessons. Then, to investigate this good assessment result, comments collected from the students were analyzed using the Grounded Theory Approach (GTA).The result of GTA, the following text hypothesis was taken as an example. “There were effects, such as the creation of an idea, from the free-flowing exchange of opinions in groups of a small number of people, and it was a pleasant and intelligible lesson”.
Key words: active learning, communication, group discussion, presentation
