scholarly journals Digital Culture and Learning in Higher Education After COVID19: A Collaborative Approach in a Virtual Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Lúcia Ana de Souza Lopes ◽  
Marili Moreira da Silva Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Private University ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Interactive Tools ◽  
Language And Literature

This article is the result of a critical analysis of the incorporation of Digital Culture into methodologies and interactive approaches that drive collaborative and meaningful learning processes for higher education students. We will analyze a specific course, Science, Technology and Society in Arts, Languages and Culture, with students from the 1st. Semester of the Portuguese Language and Literature for Teacher education Course of a Private University. Our goal is to demonstrate the planning, implementation, and learning outcome in a course with a hybrid methodological approach that makes use of interactive tools in the students' learning trail. We will highlight an interactive evaluative activity that consisted in the construction of a collaborative mural using the Digital Padlet tool as a resource for a critical reflection done by students on the chapter of a book from the basic bibliography: "What is Society?" (Bazzo, 2003). We adopted the qualitative analysis of the data from the Collaborative mural itself and the records of the students' Digital Learning Diaries, which was performed after the collaborative activity. This allowed us to observe the relationships between the methodological approach, the use of digital tools and the perception of significant learning in higher education, as well as to establish a critical reflection on the incorporation of digital culture in pedagogical practices.

A Case Study on Web-based Learning Environment Evaluation in Higher Education: Learner Perspectives in a Private University in Malaysia.

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-33
Author(s):  
Zarina Che Imbi ◽  
Tse-Kian Neo ◽  
Mai Neo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Private University ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
Kirkpatrick’S Model

In the era of digital learning, multimedia-based classroom has been commonly used in higher education including Malaysian higher education institutions. A case study has been performed to evaluate web-based learning using Level 1 to 3 of Kirkpatrick's model in a multi-disciplinary course at Multimedia University, Malaysia. In this study, mixed method research was employed in which triangulation was performed from multiple sources of data collection to give deeper understanding. Students perceived that learning with multimedia was enjoyable. They were also motivated in learning and engaged through the use of web module as multimedia was perceived to motivate them and make learning fun. Students showed significant improvements in their knowledge based on the pre-test and post-test results on learning evaluation. Students were perceived to transfer the learning from web-based learning into the learning outcome. The systematic evaluation can provide the feedback that educators and institution as a whole need to improve the learning environment and programme quality. This study contributes to the research field by adding another perspective in evaluations of web-based learning. It also provides empirical evidence on student perspectives, learning and behaviour in a private university. It demonstrated that the Kirkpatrick's model is useful as an evaluation tool to be used in higher education.

scholarly journals Higher education students’ experiences of digital learning and (dis)empowerment

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Costa ◽  
Mark Murphy ◽  
Ana Lucia Pereira ◽  
Yvette Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Critical Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Meaningful Participation ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
Learner Agency ◽  
The Stability

This paper focuses on learning practices in higher education in relation to a digital participatory culture. Using key principles of critical education, the research set out to explore higher education students’ sense of agency online – or lack of it –as part of their formal learning practices. The research found that although students were proficient Web users, they did not exercise their learner agency beyond what they assumed to be expected of them, thus evidencing the stability of their learning habitus in relation to the learning conventions associated with the academic field. Perhaps more surprisingly, however, is students’ perception of the Web not only as a space of student participation, but also as a space of student surveillance. Such perceptions constitute real obstacles to meaningful participation as a form learning.

scholarly journals Pedagogical innovation in higher education and active learning methodologies – a case study

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreia Carvalho ◽  
Sergio Jesus Teixeira ◽  
Leonilde Olim ◽  
Sancha de Campanella ◽  
Teresa Costa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Compulsory Schooling ◽  
Pedagogical Innovation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Teachers Perceptions

PurposeThe aim of this study is to obtain a broader knowledge of innovative pedagogical practices in higher education, by analysing the particular case of the Higher Institute of Administration and Languages (ISAL). The literature review reveals a gap in this scientific field, and filling this gap is as imperative as the need to articulate higher education with the Students' Profile by the End of Compulsory Schooling.Design/methodology/approachThis research adopts a qualitative methodological approach, in order to analyse the students and teachers' perceptions of the active learning methodologies implemented at ISAL. Data were collected from a closed-ended questionnaire, aimed at a population composed of students and teachers.FindingsThe literature review reveals a gap in this scientific field, particularly in Portugal. Filling this gap is as imperative as the need to articulate higher education with the Students' Profile by the End of Compulsory Schooling.Practical implicationsWith the adoption of this methodological approach, this research intends to verify not only whether the innovative pedagogical practices addressed in the literature review are implemented in this institution, but also to identify obstacles to their implementation. With regard to the results, several pedagogical innovation practices are already implemented, even though some limitations to their implementation are identified.Originality/valueThis research allows identifying indicators that are essential to outline an intervention plan in the pedagogical practices implemented at ISAL or other higher education institutions and contributes to assessing the current state of pedagogical practices in higher education.

scholarly journals TechTeach—An Innovative Method to Increase the Students Engagement at Classrooms

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 483
Author(s):  
Filipe Portela
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Bring Your Own Device ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Interactive Tools ◽  
Evolution Of Technology ◽  
Flipped Classrooms

Higher education is changing, and a new normal is coming. Students are even more demanding, and professors need to follow the evolution of technology and try to increase student engagement in the classrooms (presential or virtual). Higher education students recognise that the introduction of new tools and learning methods can improve the teaching quality and increase the motivation to learn. Regarding a question about which type of classes students preferred, ninety-one point ninety-nine per cent (91.99%) of the students wanted interactive classes over traditional. Having this concern in mind over the past years, a professor explored a set of methods, strategies and tools and designed a new and innovative paradigm using gamification. This approach is denominated TechTeach and explores a set of trending concepts and interactive tools to teach computer science subjects. It was designed to run in a B-learning environment. The paradigm uses flipped classrooms, bring your own device (BYOD), gamification, training of soft-skills and quizzes and surveys to increase the student’s engagement and provide the best learning environment to students. Currently, COVID-19 is bringing about new challenges, and TechTeach was improved in order to be more suitable for this new way of teaching (from 0% to 100% online classes). This article details this method and shows how it can be applied in a real environment. A case study was used to prove the functionality and relevance of this approach, and the achieved results are motivating. During the semester, more than a hundred students experienced this new way of teaching and assessment. In the end, more than eighty-one per cent (81%) of the students gave a positive grade to the approach, and more than ninety-five per cent (95.65%) of the students approved the use of the concept of BYOD in the classroom. With TechTeach, the classroom is not a boring place anymore; it is a place to learn and enjoy regardless of being physical or not.

scholarly journals PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN THE SYSTEM OF SPECIALIZED TRAINING OF FUTURE PHILOLOGISTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (194) ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
Valentyna Honcharuk ◽  
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Nelia Podlevska ◽  
Victoriya Zhyvolup ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Communication Situations ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Communicative Abilities

The ability to communicate and engage in a dialogue in an appropriate level indicates not only professional qualities of the teachers, but also ensures his/her success in a competitive and changing labour market. Having made researches and analyzed the scientists' interpretation of the concept of communicative competence and found out that it is known as a person's ability to build his/her own communicative behavior in accordance with real communication situations, a special quality of speech personality, acquired in the process of communication or special training. Communicative competence is the teacher's ability to build effective communication actions in a certain range of situations in an interpersonal interaction, the specialist's knowledge of patterns in different forms of communication and rules of behavior in different situations, the ability to form and implement a tactical plan, which is based on social skills. An important part in the process of forming communicative competence of higher education students is working with texts, especially deepening their reading, annotating, abstracting and editing texts, which is based on which dialogical statements are formed. Work on fiction texts will enable students to master phonetics and grammar at the level that is not regulated by rules. In addition, future teachers of philology are encouraged to read professional literature. Such a view of a communicative competence includes an impeccable command of the norms of modern literary language, linguistic literacy and broad erudition. Nowadays, competitiveness in the professional domain requires knowledge, skills and abilities in a whole range of related domains, one of which is professional mobility. Attention has been paid to the direct link between mobility and a teacher's communicative competences, and to the effect that mobility has on the set of competences associated with direct communicative manifestations. The primary place in the professional training of philologists belongs to the study of the Ukrainian language and literature and other philological disciplines, during which higher education applicants discover cultural, historical, social and other aspects of the Ukrainian language. Thus, the system of professional training of teachers-philologists will give them an opportunity in the future to develop communicative abilities with pupils, to bring up a feeling of Ukrainianness, to form a Ukrainian mentality and love to the native land.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Kebutuhan Kognisi, Preferensi Risiko Dan Jenis Kelamin Terhadap Niat Berwirausaha Mahasiswa

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 699
Author(s):  
Fanny Bidori ◽  
Ida Puspitowati
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Risk Preferences ◽  
Private University ◽  
Processing Method ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Data Processing Method ◽  
And Gender

This study aims to empirically examine the effect of cognitive needs, risk preferences and gender on entrepreneurial intentions in private university students in West Jakarta. This research uses data processing method with SmartPLS version 3.0. with a sample of 250 respondents from FE students at several private universities in West Jakarta. Types of samples Non-probability Sampling with Snowball Sampling. The results of this study indicate that: Cognitive Needs and Risk Preferences have a significant effect on Entrepreneurial Intentions in Private Higher Education Students in West Jakarta, while Gender has no significant effect on Entrepreneurial Intentions in Private Higher Education Students in West Jakarta.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji secara empiris pengaruh kebutuhan kognisi, preferensi risiko dan jenis kelamin terhadap niat berwirausaha pada mahasiswa perguruan tinggi swasta di Jakarta Barat. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode pengolahan data dengan SmartPLS versi 3.0. dengan jumlah sampel responden sebanyak 250 responden dari Mahasiswa FE pada beberapa Perguruan Tinggi Swasta di Jakarta Barat. Jenis sampel Nonprobability Sampling dengan Snowball Sampling. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa: Kebutuhan Kognisi dan Preferensi Risiko memiliki pengaruh signifikan terhadap Niat Berwirausaha Pada Mahasiswa Perguruan Tinggi Swasta di Jakarta Barat, sementara Jenis Kelamin tidak memiliki pengaruh signifikan terhadap Niat Berwirausaha Pada Mahasiswa Perguruan Tinggi Swasta di Jakarta Barat.

scholarly journals Smart learning technology for computer programming driven by research related to COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-99
Author(s):  
Ramona Markoska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Computer Programming ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Smart Learning ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
C Programming

The restrictions imposed by COVID-19 have significantly affected the reorganization of educational processes, including the process of computer programming learning in higher education. The work experiences in teaching programming languages in higher education have served as an idea for the development of smart learning technology, as a complement to the pre-existing ecosystem for digital learning, in particular C++ programming, in higher education. This paper aims to present the realization of smart learning technology, describes its use and provides information about the level of acceptance of higher education students. The opinions and experiences of the students who used the technology, during the summer semester of 2020, were obtained through an anonymous questionnaire, prepared by the author of the paper. The results were obtained during implementation of the curriculum in advanced C++ programming in the Faculty of ICТ. The results show the potential for wider application of this Smart Learning technology, especially in technical areas. Keywords: C++; covid19; programming; smart learning, technology  

scholarly journals Notes from the Field: Concerns of Health-Related Higher Education Students in Brazil Pertaining to Distance Learning During the Coronavirus Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renan Morais Peloso ◽  
Fernanda Ferruzzi ◽  
Aline Akemi Mori ◽  
Daiane Pereira Camacho ◽  
Lucimara Cheles da Silva Franzin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Private University ◽  
Clinical Material ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Anonymous Questionnaire ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Education In Brazil

This survey aimed to assess the concerns of students of health-related higher education in Brazil regarding distance learning during the coronavirus pandemic. A Google Forms anonymous questionnaire was sent by WhatsApp Messenger to students at a private university. Seven hundred and four students answered the questionnaire (566 female, 138 male, mean age = 23.09 years), reflecting approximately a third of the students in health-related disciplines. Students reported feeling anxious due to the pandemic. Most of the students agreed with having the ability to continue education through distance learning, but relatively few of them enjoyed it. Also, students were concerned that learning of clinical material and professional training would be impaired, and they were afraid of failing the year of education. Health-related higher education private institutions in Brazil should focus on reassessing and prioritizing their policies and protocols and include a detailed plan for the future.

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