The Role of Collaborative Teaching as a Human Resource Development Practice in Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes

Abstract

The practice of collaborative teaching has gained great significance as a human resource 
development practice in the higher education but there is little empirical evidence on the impact 
of collaborative teaching on student learning outcomes. The problem of collaborative teaching 
and the effect it has on student achievement is a burning one since schools are seeking to 
optimize educational performance by developing strategic faculty development initiatives. The 
paper has addressed the ways in which collaborative teaching must be employed as a human 
resource development methodology of enhancing student learning in tertiary institutions of 
learning. The collaborative teaching strategy that should be embraced by the institutions that 
intend to achieve their utmost potential of student learning should not just be centered on the 
utilization of the teaching strategy but also its effective incorporation into the desirable 
organizational conditions. Schools and colleges need to establish cultures of collaboration 
through leadership and policy support, schedule redesign to support collaboration, recognition 
and rewards systems that reward collaborative work, holistic professional development, and 
professional learning communities that place a premium on collaborative practice. 
Longitudinal designs, discipline variations, test individual collaborative models, mediate by 
mechanisms and use more extensive student perspectives should be used in future research.