scholarly journals Using blogging for higher order learning in large cohort university teaching: A case study

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Farmer ◽  
Audrey Yue ◽  
Claire Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Large Cohort ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Learning Resource ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Higher Order Learning ◽  
Educational Blogging

<span>The small but developing literature on weblogging underscores its potential as an effective learning resource for use in higher education. This paper contributes to these discussions through an initial case study of the authors' experience with the on going development of an educational blogging resource for use in a large cohort, undergraduate liberal arts subject. Detailing the theoretical aims, design, implementation and incipient evaluation of the project, the paper supports the argument for the educational use and value of blogging but also highlights potential limitations and problem areas.</span>

scholarly journals Power, Play and Pedagogy through the PowerPoint Performance-Lecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-394
Author(s):  
Kai Syng Tan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Higher Order Learning ◽  
Power Play

What could a visual-led approach to the learning and teaching of complex issues look like for a short online synchronous session? Through a playful performance-lecture exploring concepts in diversity, interdisciplinarity and social change entitled What could a neurodiversity-led 2050 look like?, this paper outlines the possibilities of visual-centred approach, using the ubiquitous Microsoft software PowerPoint (or open-sourced equivalents like Google Slides and Prezi). It seeks to contribute to discourses and practices around role of visual approaches in Higher Education (HE) to address ‘difficult’ topics like power and inequality in an engaging manner, and to empower learners as active participants, including those who may be think visually, such as dyslexic learners. Such approaches will be urgent in a reality characterised by profound socio-political injustice highlighted by Black Lives Matter (BLM), and amid a global pandemic, where teaching occurs online, and where learners and teachers alike may be short of time, attention and resources. Highlighting techniques and perspectives from art, film and neurodiversity, it invites the consideration of the PowerPoint performance-lecture as a simple yet engaging and responsive process for higher order learning and creative thinking. A secondary point of the article to call for HE to itself apply a degree of critical and creative thinking about its own position, to use self-knowledge to do better, in order to move forward. It welcomes feedback and challenges, and calls for the creation of yet more playful, innovative, visual-led approaches in the learning and teaching of complex issues in Higher Education.

scholarly journals Value of Love in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Gabriella Beckles-Raymond
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Credit Crunch ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Liberal Arts University ◽  
Participation Program

In the context of the rise in open racism following post-credit crunch Brexit Britain, movements seeking educational reform to address racism within the academy emerged. However, such efforts must grapple with the ever-increasing corporatization of higher education. This article aims to disrupt the duplicity of widening participation rhetoric, which makes claims to moral values but in practice is governed by a neoliberal agenda. Using bell hooks’ ethic of love, I discuss a case study of a widening participation program and a liberal arts university. I claim that so-called resource dilemmas are better understood as moral dilemmas and that centring a love ethic in this process of reframing enables us to rethink how we navigate such dilemmas in higher education.

scholarly journals Learning Media in Indonesian Higher Education in Industry 4.0: Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 127-134
Author(s):  
Rizal Rizal ◽  
Misnasanti Misnasanti ◽  
Syahrial Shaddiq ◽  
Ramdhani Ramdhani ◽  
Feri Wagiono
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Educational Quality ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Times

The aims of this research was to fill the theoretical and empirical gaps about the case study with regard to learning media in Indonesia's higher education in industry 4.0 and society 5.0 era. This research used qualitative methods. Data collection techniques used interviews, observations, and documentation. The results of this study revealed tht virtual learning (VL) media ws an effective learning media in Indonesian higher education in industry 4.0 and society 5.0. Therefore, the use of relevant learning models was in line with the times, and the use of more flexible VL media was a strategy to enhance educational quality in the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. Keywords:  Learning Media, Education in Industry 4.0, Higher Education

scholarly journals Teaching Resilience: Enabling Factors for Effective Responses to COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Baumber ◽  
Lucy Allen ◽  
Tyler Key ◽  
Giedre Kligyte ◽  
Jacqueline Melvold ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Success ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Sydney Australia

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted higher education globally. Teaching staff have pivoted to online learning and employed a range of strategies to facilitate student success. Aside from offering a testing ground for innovative teaching strategies, the pandemic has also provided an opportunity to better understand the pre-existing conditions that enable higher education systems to be resilient - that is, to respond and adapt to disturbances in ways that retain the functions and structures essential for student success. This article presents a case study covering two transdisciplinary undergraduate courses at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. The results highlight the importance of information flows, feedbacks, self-organisation, leadership, openness, trust, equity, diversity, reserves, social learning and nestedness. These results show that resilience frameworks developed by previous scholars are relevant to university teaching systems and offer guidance on which system features require protection and strengthening to enable effective responses to future disturbances.

scholarly journals Teaching English with Insta.Ling Online Platform: Case Study in Higher Education Level

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-287
Author(s):  
Artur Baranowski
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
Education Level ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Biology Students ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
E Learning

The paper presents a study about using Insta.Ling e-learning platform in university teaching process of English language for Biology students. The aim of this study is to estimate its effectiveness and the correlation between the number of repetitions and the number of words memorized. The total number of students involved in this research is 129 (6 student groups and in 3 academic years). They are all students of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw. The results allow to assume that Insta.Ling environment is an effective way to learn new vocabulary and regular sessions positively affect the number of vocabulary memorized.

Learning Enhancement or Headache

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Arlene J. Nicholas ◽  
John K. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Faculty Attitudes ◽  
Learning Enhancement ◽  
Liberal Arts University ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
Electronic Readers

The availability of e-textbooks is increasing along with the variety of electronic readers. According to the “2010 Horizon Report,” adoption of this technology will be widespread in academia in two to three years as it will “… reduce costs, save students from carrying pounds of textbooks and contribute to the environmental efforts…” (Johnson, Levine, Smith, & Stone, 2010, p.6). Will e-textbooks become favored by faculty in higher education? This paper will examine the benefits and limitations of e-textbooks and the attitudes of faculty and students towards using this radical alternative to the centuries-old standard of education. An exploratory case study of faculty attitudes and usages of e-textbooks at a small liberal arts university was performed.

The Implementation of an Academic and Applied Esports Program in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 186-209
Author(s):  
Michele R. King ◽  
Karen G. Conner ◽  
Lindy L. Johnson ◽  
Terry Trojak ◽  
Tim Cho
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Program Development ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Liberal Arts University ◽  
Sociocultural Theories ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Level Of Risk

Drawing on sociocultural theories of learning, this case study describes how a small liberal arts university, steeped in a tradition of innovation and discovery, developed and introduced an interdisciplinary academic and applied esports program. The study describes the importance of a multi-interdisciplinary approach to program development and building community, drawn from the voices and expertise of interdepartmental stakeholders including administration, faculty, staff, and students. The authors share the timeline of events and lessons learned in launching a successful esports program by applying an entrepreneurial mindset and accepting an appropriate level of risk.

Authentic Tasks

2010 ◽  
pp. 205-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Reeves ◽  
Jan Herrington
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Authentic Tasks ◽  
Generation Me ◽  
Higher Order Learning

Regardless of whether one thinks of today’s higher education students as “digital natives” or members of “Generation Me,” it is obvious that traditional instructional methods are failing to engage them adequately in developing the kinds of higher order learning outcomes necessary in the 21st Century. These outcomes should encompass the conative learning domain as well as the traditional cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. This chapter describes a set of ten authentic tasks learning design principles that can be used to create and support the kind of engaging learning experiences that today’s learners must have if they are to achieve a full range of cognitive, affective, conative, and psychomotor outcomes for the 21st Century. A case study of a graduate level online course that exemplifies these design principles is described. Responding to the needs of Generation Me learners requires far more of a pedagogical revolution than it does the widespread adoption of Web 2.0 technologies.

scholarly journals The Lightboard: Expectations and Experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Sarah McCorkle ◽  
Paul Whitener
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Pilot Design ◽  
Faculty And Administrators

This case study describes a small-scale Lightboard pilot and a full-scale Lightboard build with accompanying studio at a small, private liberal arts college in the southern United States. This article will provide an overview of the Lightboard landscape in higher education, offer considerations for the construction of a Lightboard, and share the authors’ experiences and outcomes. In writing this article, the authors’ goal is to present an attainable use case for the construction of a Lightboard by introducing a simplistic pilot design that was well received by faculty and administrators.

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