ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates and reviews the course’s framework: how to incorporate sustainable learning as well as active-learning for the large classes at Thammasat University, by using a built environment module as an example. The method of the study is to observe, analyse and discuss the teaching framework and students’ learning outcomes by using the data collected throughout the 2015 academic year. The courses were attended by the freshmen of ten diverse faculties: 1,348 students (first semester) and 1,696 students (second semester). The teaching team included faculty members and teaching assistants, mostly graduated architecture students. Some of the projects reflected on how the students changed their attitudes about sustainability when they were working on the ground. The process of active-learning not only allows the students but also the teaching team to develop their understandings of the dynamics and broad meanings of sustainability in each built environment and community. The feedback from the students included both positive and negative comments.
