INTEGRATING COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE LEARNING AND CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING INTO A SINGLE TEACHING STRATEGY.

HOTEL management education; PROBLEM solving research; TEACHING methods; COGNITIVE styles; LECTURES & lecturing; GROUP work in education; COMPARATIVE studies; INTERNET in education; HOTEL management schools; CURRICULUM

The aim in this study was to explore the effect of applying an innovative teaching strategy to promote students' learning achievement. Students in three classes of a 4-year hotel management program participated. One class was assigned to experimental group 1, and learnt using the creative problem solving (CPS) strategy applied to a web-based cooperative learning (CSCL) method; another experimental group 2 used the CSCL, and the control group (CG), used traditional lecturing. After conducting the quasi-experiment, the collected data were analyzed by quantitative methods. Differences in achievement among the three classes reached significant levels, and the achievement of group 1 was significantly better than that of the control group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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