Educating Gen-Z: Developing a Teaching and Learning Ecosystem in a 21st Century Learning

Abstract

Fostering a teaching and learning ecosystem is vital in the 21st century teaching and learning process to determine student’s positive impact on social academic outcomes. This paper proposed a teaching and learning ecosystem for Gen-Z students and the researchers developed RICES concept and Fish approach to support their ecosystem. This study will investigate and explore the implementation of RICES (Relationship & Role, Introduction, Communication, Educate and Structure) strategy to build and foster the teaching and learning ecosystem. The ecosystem will ensure educating this generation will be more holistic whilst enabling the learning-centred approach to be effectively used. The paper is concluded with the approach and impact of RICES. A descriptive research method was conducted with the tertiary students. The result revealed that RICES strategy shows a significant relationship among of each element. Students also shows positive academic result and learn to communicate better.