Promoting Peer Learning through Digital Exhibition: Towards Innovative Approaches in Promoting Heritage of Chinese Theatre Arts

This project is extended from the virtual exhibition project that the Principal Investigator collaborated with the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts which showcased students' creativity in Chinese Traditional Theatre, and the project was awarded "Outstanding Teaching Practice Award" by the China Arts Management Education Society. At this challenging time when face-to-face teaching may need to be replaced with online teaching with the outspread of CoVid-19, interactive peer learning has the great potential to maintain a high level of student engagement in the online learning environment. Peer learning is a powerful two-way cooperative and interactive process of critical enquiry and reflection. This project aims to create an intellectually stimulating and engaging online learning environment though working towards a Digital Exhibition with a peer learning approach. With transmission of the heritage of Chinese theatre arts as the theme, students' learning engagement included (i) designing a marketing poster to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in Cultural Management, for advocating cultural programmes; (ii) creating a Digital Exhibition as a co-operative learning; and (iii) participating in the peer review via the online platform. The returned questionnaires and interviews data on this project have suggested that peer learning approach through the means of digital exhibition could enhance Cultural Management students' motivation, self-belief and self-efficacy in the subject area, and foster the proactive adoption of innovative approach in promoting arts to the public.