scholarly journals Managing expectations and developing trust

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 58-70
Author(s):  
Henk Huijser ◽  
Rachel Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Private Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Public University ◽  
Private Provider ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Partnership Model ◽  
The University

Changing learner demographics and requirements are driving an increase in the range of private education available in the higher education sector. To stay current, universities may need to adapt to learner needs and rethink how they deliver education. This case study evaluates a model of delivery that is a collaboration of a traditional public university and a private education provider to design and deliver online education for a specific demographic where the private provider undertakes the online teaching and collaborates with the university on the design. Initial evidence suggests that the partnership model has the potential to work well with good communication and adjustments from both sides, including addressing assumptions about preparedness for online. Early indications further suggest that this model facilitates rapid change and deeper understanding about online learning, and that it brings shared benefits and rewards.

scholarly journals Negotiating pedagogical challenges in the shift from face-to-face to fully online learning: A case study of collaborative design solutions by learning designers and subject matter experts

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-46
Author(s):  
Belinda Davey ◽  
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Kristine Elliott ◽  
Maria Bora ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The University

With the increasing number of students enrolled in fully online programs and subjects across different Australian universities, online education has become a popular higher education alternative. The University of Melbourne has responded to this challenge by establishing the Melbourne School of Professional and Continuing Education (MSPACE), where the learning designers (LDs), project managers, educational technologists, graphic designers and video producers work collaboratively with subject matter experts (SMEs) from across the university to create high-quality fully online graduate subjects. The case study presented in this article examines how MSPACE used this team-based approach to design and develop Psychodynamic Psychiatry, a six-week elective in the Master of Psychiatry. This paper examines a number of pedagogical challenges that arise when converting a pre-existing face-to-face subject to a fully online subject, as well as some relatively unique aspects in the design and development process utilised by MSPACE. While the approach provided by MSPACE currently focuses on supporting SMEs by providing access to third-space professionals, it is hoped that this will act as a conduit through which the SMEs are enculturated into the ways of design thinking for effective online teaching and learning practice.

scholarly journals Online Education Program in Operational Meteorology and a Case Study about a Product for Decision Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Marcial Garbanzo-Salas ◽  
Diana Jimenez-Robles
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Online Program ◽  
The University

An online program developed at the University of Costa Rica provides the professionals working in meteorology a new way to pursue graduate level degrees. The focus of this graduate program is Operational Meteorology and the students need to complete the research and development process of an operational product to graduate. The products created during the program are a solution to operational institutions in need of innovation and can later be incorporated into institutional activities including advisories, warnings and emergency management. A case study included here shows an example of the need that led to the product, the methodologies used for the development and the final operational product created.

scholarly journals Comparative Study of the Usefulness of Online Technologies in a Global Virtual Business Project Team Environment

2011 ◽  
pp. 72-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simpson Poon ◽  
Shri Rai
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
Synchronous Communication ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Online Technology ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right

Lifelong learning is quickly becoming an integrated part of todays working life because of the demand for keeping up to date with latest developments due to rapid change in technology and business. To maintain flexibility and quality, online technology is often used as a medium of educational service delivery. In this chapter, we examine a case where online technology has been used to coordinate virtual project teams (in an educational setting) around the world. The experience from the case study is that although online technology promises to offer an independent learning environment anytime and anywhere, only some aspects of the technology are useful depending on the nature of the task. In addition, there are behavioural and cultural issues, which can be exacerbated by underdeveloped personal relationships due to constraints imposed by online technology. The case study also shows that synchronous communication is not necessarily a better means to coordinate than its asynchronous counterpart. A challenge faced by online education providers is to find the right mix and how to come up with a framework that will provide optimal results.

scholarly journals Online Instruction Based on Task-based Language Teaching

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. p30
Author(s):  
Liu Zhixuan
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
English Class ◽  
Teachers And Students

The outbreak of the COVID-19 caused many Chinese universities to initiate online teaching. This paper aimed to develop Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) practices in online courses to enable teachers and students in China to employ TBLT appropriately and effectively. This research made a case study which was conducted as an online English class with a total of 28 undergraduate students at a university in Guangdong, China. The findings show that the transition from the traditional classroom to online education was successful. This innovative teaching mode promotes students to become the initiator of learning. Besides, the switched roles between students and teachers, advantages as well as problems of this approach have been pointed out. This case study could provide pedagogical implicatures for online English teaching and learning practically and theoretically, which helps to develop new forms that could assist teachers and students to adopt TBLT in class.

scholarly journals Experience of Conducting Online Test During COVID-19 Lockdown: A Case Study of NMIMS University

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Drishti Idnani ◽  
Arpit Kubadia ◽  
Yash Jain ◽  
Prathamesh P Churi
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Peak Level ◽  
Multimedia Systems ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Online Test ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Crucial Part

The extent of COVID 19 pandemic results in closing down the universities and colleges across the world. The most vulnerable of tuition-dependent institutions, particularly the ones already facing demographically driven declines in demand, will be the hardest hit by the pandemic. The online teaching learning and assessment at this time becomes a crucial part of education. Taking the online test was crucial as lots of malpractices would happen. The developing countries like India, where the advancement of e-learning, online education, MOOC has not reached its peak level, the assessment and evaluation of students becomes very difficult. Due to unforeseen situation like COVID-19 lockdown, the above paper shares a fruitful experience of conducting online case study-based paper and its online evaluation. The case study was conducted in the classrooms of the undergraduate class of NMIMS University for Multimedia Systems Course. This case study-based paper leaves with the message of acceptability of the online teaching-learning and its effect near the future.

scholarly journals COVID-19 pandemic and pharmacy education in a developing country: A case study from Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-16
Author(s):  
B.K. Lawal ◽  
A. Haruna ◽  
F.S. Kurfi ◽  
K.B. David
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
State Government ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Mode Of Delivery ◽  
Pharmacy Education ◽  
State University ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Fixed Structure ◽  
The University

Since March 2020, all schools in Nigeria have been closed to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 virus. This paper presents the case study of the e-learning strategies adopted by Kaduna State University to reduce the educational disruption during these unprecedented times. As the University had no established e-learning resources, there was a need for prompt training of staff in online teaching. The online teaching methods to be adopted came with their fair share of challenges as e-learning activities had not been taking place at the University prior to the emergence of COVID-19. The University, with the full support of the state government, were making plans to ensure a fixed structure for the integration of e-learning into the syllabus. This case study provides some recommendations that could be adopted by similar institutions that have no previous e-learning structures. The COVID-19 pandemic has opened up opportunities to upgrade the educational mode of delivery and shown the need to embrace emerging technologies.

scholarly journals Education in Online Environment from Students’ and Teachers’ Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-226
Author(s):  
Miriama Blahušiaková ◽  
Daša Mokošová ◽  
Erik Šoltés
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Class Discussion ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Study Materials ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
The University

The pandemic related to COVID-19 has affected education particularly in terms of the massive shift towards online teaching and study. Students and teachers had to face new challenges they had not met before. The aim of the paper is to research how both, students and teachers perceive the online educational process, to identify advantages and disadvantages of online teaching, as well as to analyze and evaluate the quality of online teaching in comparison with the attendance form of education from both students’ and teachers’ perspective. In order to fulfill this purpose, we carried out two separate questionnaire surveys (among students and teachers at the Faculty of Economic Informatics at the University of Economics in Bratislava). Based on conclusions resulting from our research, we can affirm that both students and teachers prefer the attendance form of education rather than online teaching, students mainly because of need of socialization, personal contact with teachers and classmates, better and faster communication with teachers, and active class discussion. The attendance form of education eliminates technology related problems, such as outages of the Internet, electricity, missing technology equipment, and this form of education is performed on higher quality level in comparison with online education. Among the most frequently limitations of online education mentioned by teachers were anonymity of students, complexity of preparation of study materials, and cheating during exams and tests. There are also some advantages the online education offers, such as time savings, more effective, creative and flexible modern way of teaching, and recording lectures.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 and online education during emergencies in higher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 183-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madinah Nabukeera
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Systems ◽  
University Instructors ◽  
On Line ◽  
The University ◽  
Laboratory Training

Higher education faced unplanned, unwanted, un experienced, tense test in online learning with Novel Covid-19 pandemic. For all the stakeholders participating in this type of training from lecturers, students and support ICT staff its unwelcome but the university systems were stuck on how they have to go through to ensure that they end Semester II academic year 2019/20. Early January 2020, the outbreak of the Covid-19 caused Ugandan universities to close the physical campuses following a presidential directive. On 20th March 2020, from lower primary, secondary education to universities. This forced university administration to instruct teaching staff to teach all courses on-line apart from practical courses that need laboratory training. This paper focused on instructional strategies in Uganda and focuses on a case of Islamic University in Uganda Females’ Campus (IUIUFC). Fifteen specific instructional strategies are presented to summarize current online teaching experiences for university instructors who might conduct online education in similar circumstances. The study concluded with 15 high impact principles for online education. Keywords: Covid-19, instructional strategies, online teach and learning, academic managers and IUIUFC

scholarly journals Higher education and Sustainable Development Goals during COVID-19: coping strategies of a university in Wuhan, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (s1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suyu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The University

Background It is widely perceived that COVID-19 has significant influence on higher education and also contribution to development including Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However there is insufficient evidence about investigations on such influences, especially at micro level. Design and method A university located in Wuhan, China, was selected for the case study to explore how COVID-19 affects higher education and how universities’ coping strategies of COVID-19 can contribute to SDGs. The method is an analysis of 32 institutional documents published by the university. Results The university in the case study has taken a number of coping strategies of COVID-19, largely in four aspects including medical services, online education, logistic support, and graduate employment promotion. These coping strategies contribute to achieving SDGs, especially SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 10. Conclusions The case study provides micro-level empirical evidence, which supports that appropriate university coping strategies of COVID-19 can contribute to SDGs, even it is widely perceived that the pandemic has brought strong negative impact on higher education and sustainable development. The selection of a university in Wuhan, China can generate more practical implications, as Wuhan is the first city that experienced the unprecedented lockdown, and China is the first country which reopened university campuses after the lockdown.

scholarly journals Academic Capitalism in the Interstices of the Brazilian Public University

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (113) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Fonseca Albuquerque Cavalcanti Sigahi ◽  
Patrícia Saltorato
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
Student Organizations ◽  
Public University ◽  
National Council ◽  
Business Press ◽  
The University ◽  
Private High School

This article investigates the Financial Market Leagues (LMF) as interstitial organizations through the lens of the Theory of Academic Capitalism. A case study was conducted based on a LMF in a Brazilian public university (LMF-Unab). Data collection involved the LMF’s National Council, business press, institutional pages of the LMFs and the internships coordination of the university studied. Moreover, 82 questionnaires were applied to members of 29 LMFs and the founders of the LMF-Unab were interviewed. The results revealed that 70.1% of respondents are between 20-23 years old; 81% attended private high school; 48% attend Engineering courses. LMFs operate within universities legitimizing narratives and metrics typical of a financialization process, which is illustrated by iconic figures of the discourse of meritocracy and the aggressive culture of results, such as Jorge Paulo Lemann, among other respondents' sources of inspiration. This paper addresses the literature gap regarding the understanding of student organizations as actors of academic capitalism, often portrayed as passive agents in this process, but who are actually active and benefit from it. 

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