The center for nontraditional learning: Problems and prospects in contemporary higher education

1978 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galan M. Janeksela
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Problems ◽  
Nontraditional Learning

Academic makerspaces as a “design journey”: developing a learning model for how women students tap into their “toolbox of design”

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-373
Author(s):  
Megan Tomko ◽  
Wendy Newstetter ◽  
Melissa W. Alemán ◽  
Robert L. Nagel ◽  
Julie Linsey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Women Students ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Culture Of Learning ◽  
Nontraditional Learning ◽  
Multiple Cycles ◽  
Axial Coding ◽  
The University

AbstractAn academic makerspace, home to tools and people dedicated to facilitating and inspiring a making culture, is characterized by openness, creativity, learning, design, and community. This nontraditional learning environment has found an immense increase in popularity and investment in the last decade. Further, makerspaces have been shown to be highly gendered, privileging men's and masculine understandings of making. The spike in popularity warrants deeper analysis, examining the value of these spaces for women and if learning is occurring in these spaces, specifically at higher education institutions. We implemented a phenomenologically based interviewing process to capture the making experiences of 20 women students, recruited through purposive and snowball sampling. By eliciting the narratives of women students, we captured how making, designing, and creating evolved through gendered experiences in the university makerspace. Each interview was transcribed and resulted in around 868 pages of single-spaced text transcriptions. The data were analyzed through multiple cycles of open and axial coding for common themes and patterns, where makerspaces create a culture of learning, facilitate students’ design journey, and form a laboratory for creativity. These themes forwarded the creation of a learning model that showcases how design and learning interact in the makerspace. This work demonstrates that women students are engaging learning and inspiration; developing confidence and resilience; and learning how to work with others and collaborate.

scholarly journals The problem of poor student education: Capital limitation & decision making in higher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Rika Kartika
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Learning Problems ◽  
Learning Achievement ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Student Education ◽  
Poor Students ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Private High School

This study aims to analyze how poor students learning problems are within the limitations of capital. And then, to explore how the decision making of poor students to continue higher education. The study was conducted at a private high school, East Jakarta, using a qualitative approach and case study method. Data collection techniques with interviews, observation, and study documents. The problem of low student education will continue as long as social class differences exist. The contrast of social class plays a role in almost all aspects of education, like learning achievement and educational choices differences. This study shows poor students' inability to get learning achievement because limited economic capital makes the other money little. Poor students who have low achievement don't pursue higher education. They chose to work early, appearing almost as an "unconscious strategy" to survive in an environment full of restrictions and shortcomings. This confirms the existence of poor student habitus that determines in explaining the disposition to work early. And then, poor students who have high achievements tend to go college but resisted the risk of not choose a favorite public university.

scholarly journals Students’ Perceptions of the Infrastructural Design and TA-Student Interaction Modes of a College Freshman English Tutorial Program

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Huey-Nah Cindy Chou ◽  
Yi-Chen Jenny Chen ◽  
Massoud Moslehpour
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Instructional Effectiveness ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
College Freshman ◽  
Learning Problems ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Freshman English ◽  
Tutorial Program ◽  
Core Subjects

<p>In recent years, higher education institutes in Taiwan are implementing tutorial programs and are recruiting student tutors/teaching assistants (TAs) in an effort to facilitate instructional effectiveness of core subjects. Undoubtedly, infrastructural design and TA quality are two vital aspects for achieving success of the tutorial programs. This study employed research methods of surveys and interviews to examine, from students’ perspectives, effectiveness of a college freshman English tutorial program in terms of its implementation and its TA-student interaction. Results of the study show that, in terms of the tutorial implementation, students were generally satisfied with one-on-one tutoring and convenience of time and location. As for preferred TA-student interaction modes, the students favored collaboration with the TAs for diagnosing and verbalizing their English learning problems. In particular, the students appreciated that the TAs listened attentively to their feelings and problems. Based on the findings, implications for program design and TA training are addressed.</p>

Distance Learning: Problems and Solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
V.N. Lukin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Learning Problems ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Face To Face Learning

Life has drastically revisioned the form of higher education, transitioning from the traditional face-to-face learning to the distance learning. What have we lost in the educational process? Have we managed to compensate the losses? If so, then how? What can be said about the graduates educational level? Are the prospects actually so dim?

scholarly journals An Analysis of Distance Education Problems Experienced in Higher Education: A Meta-Synthesis Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Güngör Kil ◽  
Salih Uşun
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Learning Problems ◽  
Synthesis Process ◽  
Synthesis Methods ◽  
Financial Problems ◽  
Web Based ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Synthesis Approach

By using the meta-synthesis method, this study aims to analyze the studies on distance education problems experienced in higher education. The data were gathered by using the "higher education problems", "e-learning problems", "online learning problems", "open education problems", "web-based learning problems" keywords in Google Academic and TUBITAK ULAKBIM (https://ulakbim.tubitak.gov.tr/) databases. A total of 23 articles meeting the predetermined criteria were included in the study. These articles were analyzed by using the thematic synthesis approach, one of the meta-synthesis methods. The meta-synthesis process developed by Walsh and Downe (2005) was followed in the analysis. Established codes and themes were presented in frequency tables and interpreted. The distance education problems experienced in higher education were discussed under five categories as the "problems relevant to students", "problems relevant to instructors", "systemic and administrative problems", "problems relevant to curriculum", and "infrastructure and financial problems". Among these problems, the "problems relevant to students" category was found to have the highest frequency while the "infrastructure and financial problems" had the lowest frequency.

Cluttering in the Communicative Disorders Curriculum

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
John A. Tetnowski
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Opportunities For Learning ◽  
Communicative Disorders ◽  
Theoretical Issues

Abstract Cluttering is discussed openly in the fluency literature, but few educational opportunities for learning more about cluttering exist in higher education. The purpose of this manuscript is to explain how a seminar in cluttering was developed for a group of communication disorders doctoral students. The major theoretical issues, educational questions, and conclusions are discussed.

Systems of Oppression in Geriatric Clinical Service Delivery

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Diane L. Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Clinical Service ◽  
Meaningful Change ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Medical Institutions

Purpose The purpose of this article was to extend the concepts of systems of oppression in higher education to the clinical setting where communication and swallowing services are delivered to geriatric persons, and to begin a conversation as to how clinicians can disrupt oppression in their workplace. Conclusions As clinical service providers to geriatric persons, it is imperative to understand systems of oppression to affect meaningful change. As trained speech-language pathologists and audiologists, we hold power and privilege in the medical institutions in which we work and are therefore obligated to do the hard work. Suggestions offered in this article are only the start of this important work.

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