Abstract:

Block Model of Teaching (BMT) has been found to be a teaching approach that can lead to higher level of productivity and performance by having a compressed style of teaching. Despite BMT is not a new concept to secondary or high schools, the adoption of this mode of teaching in universities is still very limited. Besides, there is very limited information regarding how universities in the world should adopt this mode of teaching. Thus, this study aims to provide a clearer picture of the BMT implementation at universities by extracting several important lessons that can be learned from past implementations of BMT in higher education sector. By taking a qualitative research approach, this study collects evidence from cases where BMT has been implemented, and provides a taxonomy containing thirty lessons learnt from those cases, clustered into 7 different groups, namely, course duration and scheduling, learning platform, academic performance, student engagement, memory retention, flexibility in teaching, and course design and guideline.