Abstract
Within an agile PBL ecology for learning, there are four interrelated systems or environments that feed into each other and depend on each other. In this chapter, we turn our attention to the exo-environments surrounding the students’ immediate formal micro-environment where learning, teaching and assessment interconnect to initiate the development of students’ ways-of-being and them becoming change ready for supercomplex future contexts. Our imagining of the ‘new’ university for learning will not be complete if we do not discuss these environments and systems. While students are not directly situated in them, the decisions and actions of actors and systems situated in exo-environments can influence the development of their by enhancing student engagement. In this chapter, we discuss strategies and practices in student development and engagement in pursuit of developing a ‘way-of-being’ and of becoming an agile PBL university that is serious about its position in the overall ecology and recognises its associated responsibilities.
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Kek, M.Y.C.A., Huijser, H. (2017). Agile Student Development and Engagement for Learning. In: Problem-based Learning into the Future. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2454-2_6
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