scholarly journals Multimedia based enhancement of the science of oenology in the distance education learning environment

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K. Bowyer ◽  
Christopher L. Blanchard
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
First Year ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Learning Resource ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Resource Enhancement ◽  
University Course ◽  
First Year University

Multimedia has been investigated regarding its utility as an enhancement mechanism, primarily for distance education students in the first year university course Wine Science 1 at Charles Sturt University. The resource consisted of a series of QuickTime movies outlining oenological chemical analysis experiments to be conducted during the block teaching, on campus portion of the course. They were created using Apple Computer’s iMovie software and were delivered via CD as a new component of the print based materials package commonly used in distance education supported courses. 80% of the students were able to make use of the multimedia files to prepare for the practical component of the course before on campus attendance. When surveyed regarding the value of this learning resource enhancement, the vast majority of these students agreed that effective learning, understanding and, notably, relaxation were all significantly enhanced.

scholarly journals Assessment in First Year University: A Model to Manage Transition

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
J. A. Taylor ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Education Students ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
The University ◽  
First Year University ◽  
Engineering Computing

For most students assessment guides their study and learning practice. Yet in the literature associated with the first year of study at university, few have mobilised the power of assessment to develop and engage first year undergraduate students. This paper presents a model of assessment for first year students which separates the semester into three overlapping assessment phases: assessment for transition, assessment for development and assessment for achievement. The implementation and usefulness of the model is supported by examples from mathematics, engineering, computing, communication and nursing studies at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ). Particular attention is paid to assessments for transition which occur early in the semester and are linked more closely with processes than specific content. Evidence is collated on the success of assessments in improving the participation of students, especially distance education students.

Mobile Botany

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (9) ◽  
pp. 699-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. I. Harper ◽  
Geoffrey E. Burrows ◽  
J. Sergio Moroni ◽  
Rosanne Quinnell
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
First Year ◽  
Residential School ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Plant Identification ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Second Year ◽  
First Year University

In our first-year university botany classes at Charles Sturt University, we noticed that in laboratory class, students were taking photographs of their specimens with the dissecting and compound microscopes using their mobile phones. Student-generated images as “learning objects” were used to enhance the engagement of all students, including Distance Education students who used images provided by the on-campus students. The Distance Education students did all the laboratory work at an intensive residential school, and they were encouraged to take images; these were shared with on-campus students, making them aware of the laboratory practical work they were yet to do. In other cases, images from students were incorporated into lectures and tutorials, preparing students for the lab exam. Botany students have shared their photomicrographs with their friends and family via social media. We saw interesting examples of students excitedly describing their images to non-science friends, teaching them what they were learning! In the second year, students were also encouraged to use their phones to capture their own images of plant specimens to help them master plant identification. Although we do not have any quantitative evidence of these activities enhancing student learning, it was evident that those students who took and shared their own images were more engaged in the learning process.

scholarly journals Testing Different Teaching Techniques in First Year Finance Seminars

10.28945/2421 ◽  
2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Allsopp
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
First Year ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Teaching Technique ◽  
University Course ◽  
First Year University

The author compares the relative successes of two different teaching techniques in seminars for a first year university course in Finance. This paper tests to see if there is one overriding approach that enables all students to learn effectively in seminars or whether different students benefit from different teaching techniques. An experiment will be carried out on a subset of a first year Finance group in Semester 1, 2001 for five separate fifty-minute sessions. Four groups (i.e. sixty students) will be taught using one teaching technique. The remaining four groups will face an alternative approach. The author will consider the performance of the students in these groups in the light of a personality questionnaire designed to ascertain preferred learning styles. The ultimate goal is to deliver seminars that offer the students the best possible learning environment.

Distance Education and ‘Discovery Learning’ in First-year Journalism: A Case in Subject Improvement

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Ames
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Discovery Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Assessment Requirements ◽  
Social Constructivist Approach

This article examines the implications of adopting a discovery learning education model for distance education students in a first-year undergraduate journalism subject. It reviews subject enhancement strategies against learning theory and analyzes the ways students are engaged with subject content and assessment. Results of subject redesign included increased student satisfaction, greater retention and higher grades despite the increase in overall assessment requirements. It demonstrates that discovery learning based on group work and social engagement can be adopted in a distance education environment with positive outcomes. This article maps how a subject designed initially to align with a cognitivist/behaviourist model progressed to adopting a social constructivist approach. It concludes with a discussion of the issues associated with that transition.

Virtual Academic Advising in Challenging Times

2020 ◽  
pp. 184-196
Author(s):  
Georgina Argüello
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Academic Advising ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Academic Advisors ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Technology Tools ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Technology Applications ◽  
Definition Of

With the rapid shift to remote learning because of the pandemic, the academic advisors of colleges and universities had to adapt and change some of the ways they were advising the traditional higher education students. In this new normal, where social distance needs to be present and non-traditional education takes precedence in the learning environment, academic advisors had to rapidly adjust and use different technology tools of virtual advising. Over the past few years, colleges and universities that offer distance education programs have been struggling in engaging and retaining their non-traditional online learners. However, with the pandemic, these institutions may encounter the challenge of not only retaining the non-traditional students but also, the new distance learners. Therefore, academic advisors will need to use creative ways of providing advising services in this new learning environment. Many studies have demonstrated that virtual advising has been helpful to aid the distance education students. Virtual advising uses different technology applications and platforms. Using it correctly can help students and advisors with the registration cycles and with any other concerns the students may have. In this chapter, the author explains academic advising and the role of an advisor, the definition of virtual advising, the importance of combining the different approaches of academic advising into virtual advising, and the different technology tools that can assist academic advisors when doing their job of supporting the students in the new learning environment.

Scripting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

2010 ◽  
pp. 180-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Päivi Häkkinen ◽  
Maarit Arvaja ◽  
Raija Hämäläinen ◽  
Johanna Pöysä
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
First Year ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Web Based ◽  
First Year Teacher ◽  
University Course ◽  
Teacher Education Students

In this chapter, we will present a review of theoretical and empirical analyses of Web-based collaboration processes used during a scripted university course. The results refer to a design-based study that involved first-year teacher-education students (N = 30) studying pedagogy over a period of three months. The intervention involved structuring the subjects’ collaborative actions with three different pedagogical scripts. According to the findings, the scripts guided students’ activities by helping them find resources for knowledge construction and work together through a series of steps. However, there were variations among groups in terms of quality of collaboration, and the students mostly cumulatively shared or constructed knowledge from similar perspectives. On the basis of the challenges raised in the SCORE and related studies, future prospects are outlined for the design of flexible pedagogical scripts.

scholarly journals Trust: A Process and an Outcome in an Audio-Teleconferencing Learning Environment

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Buchanan ◽  
Judith MacIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Challenging Question ◽  
Education Nursing

If trust is critical in relationships between teachers and distance education students, then how do teachers facilitate trust? This particularly challenging question arose from our experience teaching distance education nursing students who were continuing their education through the medium of audio-teleconferencing. Although audio-teleconferencing has the advantage of allowing students to stay in their own communities while accessing educational opportunities, we believed that it complicates the development of trusting relationships between teachers and students. In a qualitative study, students were asked to provide their perspectives on factors that facilitate trust within this distance education learning environment. Their responses indicate that, within the context of the learning milieu, trusting is construed as a developmental process, and through this process, trust in the learning, in the curriculum, and in one's co-learners occurs.

scholarly journals Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction in a First-Year Course: An Instructor's Self-Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Parr ◽  
Vera Woloshyn
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Strategy Instruction ◽  
Instructional Program ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
First Year ◽  
Comprehension Strategy Instruction ◽  
Comprehension Strategy ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
University Course ◽  
First Year University

The primary purpose of the study described here was to document the first author’s experiences delivering a repertoire of evidence-based comprehension strategies in context of a first-year university course. We first provide an overview of the literature related to students’ transition into the postsecondary environment, arguing for the need to engage in comprehension strategy instruction within first-year courses. We then overview the literature related to the provision of comprehension instruction to selected groups of postsecondary students. We next outline the study methodology including a description of the instructional program provided here. In an attempt to provide insights for others who may wish to provide similar instruction, we conclude by discussing emerging themes related to student learning and curriculum design as related to strategy instruction at the postsecondary level. L’objectif principal de l’étude décrite dans cet article est de documenter les premières expériences de l’auteur à présenter un répertoire de stratégies de compréhension basées sur l’évidence dans le contexte d’un cours universitaire de première année. Nous présentons tout d’abord un aperçu général de la documentation qui existe sur la transition des étudiants vers l’environnement post-secondaire en exposant le besoin de s’investir dans l’enseignement de stratégies de compréhension dans les cours de première année. Ensuite, nous exposons un aperçu de la recherche qui traite de l’enseignement de la compréhension à des groupes ciblés d’étudiants du niveau post-secondaire, puis nous énonçons la méthodologie de l’étude, y compris la description du programme d’enseignement présenté dans cet article. Pour tenter de fournir des informations à ceux qui souhaiteraient pratiquer un tel enseignement, nous concluons en discutant les nouveaux thèmes liés à l’apprentissage des étudiants et à la conception de programmes d’études qui se rapportent à l’enseignement de stratégies au niveau post-secondaire.

scholarly journals Role of Undergraduate Medical Students in Designing Teaching Module in Anatomy for Effective Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 729-734
Author(s):  
Preeti Prabhakarrao Thute ◽  
Sunita Jayant Vagha
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Interventional Study ◽  
Learning Resource ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Teaching Module ◽  
Teaching Learning

BACKGROUND The importance of the students in the development of the medical curriculum has been very well known. The valuable perspective and insight of the medical students is very essential in the development of new student-centred teaching modules with student friendly methodology, tools and learning resource materials to increase students’ interest improving their understanding and competence in anatomy and eventually create better doctors and for better patient outcomes. In view of this, an interventional study was carried out to study the role of undergraduate medical students in designing teaching module in anatomy for effective learning. METHODS An interventional study was carried out from October 2019 to March 2020 in the Department of Anatomy, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Sawangi (Meghe), Wardha. 230 first MBBS students and 50 students i.e., 25 students from each 2nd MBBS and 3rd MBBS participated voluntarily. A routine didactic lecture was conducted for first year MBBS students. Perception was taken with the structured proforma (using Likert scale) from all the students and data analysis was done. A panel was formed with 50 volunteered students from 2nd MBBS and 3rd MBBS who were given responsibility to form module (instructions for the teacher). Then lecture was again conducted for the first year MBBS students incorporating the instructions from the module framed after considering input from data analysis of perception of first MBBS students and from panel of second MBBS and third MBBS students. The data was analysed statistically, using descriptive and inferential statistics using chisquare test. Software used in the analysis were Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 24.0 version and GraphPad Prism 7.0 version. RESULTS After data analysis, it was observed that after implementation of instructions from module there was improvement in all parameters of teaching learning methodology, tools used and learning resource material. The difference was statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS It is evident from the present study that when the teaching learning methodology, teaching learning tools and learning resource materials are designed considering the inputs from the techno savvy students, it is accepted and beneficial for effective learning while still keeping a tinge of the traditional methodology. KEY WORDS Challenges, Criticism, Inputs, Teaching Learning Methodology

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