How to use Diigo for allowing the students from large classes to become active ?

Teaching in the early bachelor’s degrees at the university often comes down to classical ex cathedra courses for which the students take a passive role leading progressively to the lost of their motivation which may result in school failure. In this work, we demonstrate that the use of a collaborative social bookmarking, such as Diigo, can help for preserving and promoting the student motivation within large classes. Diigo is a free online tool used in a bachelor class of Bio Engineering (270 students) at the Gembloux Agro Bio Tech Faculty (University of Liege, Belgium) in order to allow students to work actively in small groups of 6 students. During this activity, which is supervised by a tutor who is also a teacher, the students prepare themselves the subject of the course.
The impacts of this learning activity are clear: the motivation is substantially increased and the teacher can assist each group in its research through the Network rather than merely transmit his knowledge to a large audience without close interactions with the students.
bookmarking, such as Diigo, can help for preserving and promoting the student motivation within large classes. Diigo is a free online tool used in a bachelor class of Bio Engineering (270 students) at the Gembloux Agro Bio Tech Faculty (University of Liege, Belgium) in order to allow students to work actively in small groups of 6 students. During this activity, which is supervised by a tutor who is also a teacher, the students prepare themselves the subject of the course.
The impacts of this learning activity are clear: the motivation is substantially increased and the teacher can assist each group in its research through the Network rather than merely transmit his knowledge to a large audience without close interactions with the students.