Cooperative learning is one of the more common learning styles nowadays, and we often encounter it in our university courses, such as some group assessments or group projects. In cooperative learning, groups of multiple students or learners are usually formed and share resources and their ideas, ultimately relying on each other to complete the work. Cooperative learning can also help develop learning experiences, as mentioned by KYLE, a student from another learning pod, and I agree with him about cooperative learning.

For our pod’s assessment topic– critical thinking, cooperative learning is a more appropriate learning style, because cooperative learning better facilitates learners to share their ideas. Learners can now discuss their ideas in a group and refine them over time. The ideas of everyone in the group are then brought together and collided with the ideas of other groups. This allows everyone’s ideas to be presented without the confusion of too many different ideas.

However, other learning styles are not entirely inappropriate for our topic. It fits equally well with experiential learning, for example, which is studied by my Learning Pod partner Lucas. Experiential learning connects learned theory and knowledge to real-world situations by engaging students in practice. This approach helps students understand, remember and use what they have learned. The direct instruction approach to learning studied by another of my partners Delbert is also good. It helps students to understand directly what they are trying to teach by having clearly defined and defined teaching tasks. But they both do not promote the exchange of ideas among students very well, so cooperative learning is more appropriate for our topic.