scholarly journals THE FORMATIVE RESEARCH OF ECUADORIAN UNIVERSITY TEACHING STAFF

2019 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-378
Author(s):  
Derling Mendoza Velazco ◽  
Irma Abrigo Córdova ◽  
Janela Romero Chávez ◽  
Fredy Cueva Bravo ◽  
Magda Francisca Cejas
Keyword(s):  
Educational Innovation ◽  
University Education ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Academic Researcher ◽  
Teacher Formation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Teaching Function ◽  
Level Of Thinking ◽  
Professional Teaching

University research is the way in which lecturers can perceive, analyze and be illustrated about unknown topics or something that has been omitted and that is why it is important and is the key in the academic researcher´s life, the gathering of information, the analysis and the search for a solution to an existing or detected problem. This research includes three phases: the first, where the search, collection and data analysis is proposed; the second, where models of teacher formation and theorization are included and the third, where the final idea of formation of university researchers and lecturers is proposed. This research was developed from a qualitative perspective, since it is implemented in an epistemic conceptualization that corresponds to its nature, highlighting the interest of deepening the intuition of the object research. As key informants, the participation of 15 (fifteen) lecturers from different universities of Ecuador is highlighted. The constant comparison of theories and grounded theory was applied for the analysis of the subtracted data, in order to make a theoretical approach through the emerging categories and sub-categories, through the operating software Atlas.ti version 8; with the aim to contribute to the theoretical and methodological basis. The subcategories were derived: professional teaching function and novel teaching profile. The conclusions mention the idea or model of formation for higher education teaching staff. It also mentions the importance of improving the formation of lecturers through scientific research to promote knowledge and strategies that require the need to theorize, produce and increase the level of thinking. Keywords: continuous research, complex thinking, educational innovation, educational theory, formation of teaching staff, university education.

Fourth Industrial Revolution

2019 ◽  
pp. 181-213
Author(s):  
Alicia Guerra Guerra ◽  
Lyda Sánchez de Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
University Education ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training

We are at the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution. The authors understand that university education should embrace the keys to this scenario and do so immediately. Considering this fact, new university teaching should be supported by technological immersion, but also by a culture of proactivity and training in values. The third of these pillars achieves an unimaginable relevance in regards to this emerging industrial revolution, which aims to become the revolution of values. Within this context, the university must move into the practice of ethical values and offer training based on soft skills. Moreover, there is a path that links ethics with soft skills based on the synergy between the two. From this idea, the central objectives of this work are to propose a university model for educational innovation based on values that also includes the tools for its implementation. The chapter ends with a practical case for implementing the model at the fablab that the University of Extremadura has available for its students majoring in Information Technology Engineering.

INNOVATIONS IN POLICY OF TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF ACADEMIC REVOLUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
University Education ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Third ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Developed Countries

Categories of the academic revolutions and innovations in a perspective of educational policy at the higher school are considered. Special attention is paid to the development of innovations in training at the foreign and Ukrainian universities, since X1X of a century up to now. It is noted that agricultural, industrial, global, demographic and other revolutions created basis for the academic revolutions which resulted from transformations of society and caused innovations in higher education systems. The contribution of the academic revolutions in strengthening of role of the universities in society is confirmed. The major innovations in training stimulated university teaching throughout all academic revolutionary periods (after 1867, 1945, 1983) in developed industrial and developing countries, such as the USA, some states of the European Union and Ukraine. Emergence of innovations in policy of teaching at the universities during the first academic revolution, their modification during the second one, and new turns in transformation of innovations during the third academic revolution is investigated. Introduction of innovations in teaching differed in intensity and scale during the academic revolutions. On examples of teaching it is shown how political and ideological processes in society influenced functioning of the universities. An attempt to compare educational processes during three revolutions and to reveal the most innovational period was made. It is proved that innovations in training were implanted in three academic revolutions, the third one turned out to be the most innovative. The major innovations in policy of teaching were connected with the development of scientific and technical knowledge that contributed to the emergence of the information society. The developed countries offered the introduction of policy of cooperation in the higher education that made impact on innovations in university education. The Coronavirus pandemic of 2019/20 demonstrated the need to use various forms of Internet communications (Zoom, Google Classroom, Moodle, Whereby, etc.) to switch to new opportunities to teach students in higher education institutions around the world at the beginning of the XXI century.

La ricerca valutativa nel campo della didattica: un'indagine tra i docenti dell'Universitŕ di Padova

2016 ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna ◽  
Renata Clerici ◽  
Omar Paccagnella ◽  
Adriano Paggiaro ◽  
Sabrina Martinoia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Innovation ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Master's Degrees ◽  
First Results ◽  
Evaluative Research ◽  
Academic Organization ◽  
The Right ◽  
Academic Year

This work aims at illustrating to illustrate the design and the first results of a survey which involved 1849 university professors who were teaching courses at Bachelor's and Master's Degrees of University of Padova during the academic year 2012/13. The research is part of a project of improvement of the academic educational innovation and the quality of academic teaching. The kind of approach is an evaluative research which was conducted within the academic organization and carried out among peers, using a quali-quantitative mixed method. The data was directly obtained using a CAWI questionnaire which was distributed to the whole teaching staff, and it was linked to administrative data related to the educational offer and students' evaluation of teaching in the same academic year. After a preliminary analysis of the factors which affected the probability of answering to the questionnaire, the results were summarized using some indicators which showed the diffusion of good practices of teaching, support needs, beliefs, interest and availability of the respondents to discuss more extensively the questions of the survey. The results are presented considering as reference context of teaching action and learning activities the eight Schools into which the degree courses are organized. Lastly, we identified sub-groups of potential participants for the qualitative phase of the research: they were characterized by different levels of professional practice and interest in innovating university teaching and they will be the right subjects to involve in different and integrated activities directed to develop teachers' professional competences.

EVAINU Research

2018 ◽  
pp. 332-343
Author(s):  
Alejandra Bosco
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
University Education ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Curricular Innovation ◽  
University System ◽  
Ict Skills ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The University

New virtual learning environments for educational innovation at the university of the present-future--EVAINU--is a research project financed by the Autonomous University of Barcelona as part of its support for emerging research groups. The project came about as a result of the growing presence of the ICTs in the higher education system and has focused on identifying typical cases, which use these media at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) involving some form of curricular innovation or improvement in accordance with the European convergence processes, which the Spanish university system is currently undergoing. As a result, three case studies of different qualifications were carried out in order to investigate their potential for improving university education. One of these cases--Virtual Veterinary Science--is described in this study. Among the preliminary results of this research so far, of particular interest is the fact that while the ICTs are clearly an important opportunity to make a qualitative leap and to go beyond teaching outlooks based on exposition, passive reception, and memorising, more institutional support is necessary in terms of working strategies, which promote new ways of organising teaching, the development of ICT skills among teaching staff and students, and the creation of incentives for teacher training, among other initiatives.

scholarly journals Planning the Structure of University Teaching Staff Based on Multiobjective Optimization Method

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Xiaoqian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Multiobjective Optimization ◽  
Maximum Entropy Principle ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
University Education ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Nsga Ii

University education is a hot topic of research in this era of outcome-based education in a learning-centric atmosphere, as people struggle for a higher quality of life and technological advancements. The key problems remain in structuring the teaching staff to achieve optimal information transmission and quality. Existing research aims to improve the quality of teaching of the staff, but majority of them fail to achieve their objectives. Multiobjective (MO) optimization has attracted researchers’ interest, particularly, in the context of performance monitoring and improving teaching quality. The goal of this research is to look into techniques for improving academic accomplishment through the planning structure of university teaching staff. I have adopted the Jaynes maximum entropy principle and fuzzy entropy concept to solve the structural optimization problem in the development of teaching staff in colleges and universities. The objective function and constraints in multiobjective optimization are determined, and the multiobjective optimization issue in the development of teaching staff structure is solved using the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) multiobjective genetic algorithm. The results show that the optimized structure of the teaching staff can reflect the goal of the construction of the teaching staff in colleges and universities and provide a scientific basis for the construction and planning of the teaching staff.

scholarly journals Teacher Satisfaction in Spain with the European Higher Education Area: Arts and Humanities

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Raúl Quevedo-Blasco ◽  
Gualberto Buela-Casal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Population Based ◽  
University Education ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
European Higher Education

In Spain reforms to university educational policy have been made in order to adapt to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Therefore, the objective of this study was to find out the level of satisfaction of Arts and Humanities university teaching staff towards the implementation of the EHEA. It is a population-based, descriptive study using a cross-sectional survey with a probability sample. The sample consisted of 1605 Spanish teachers of Arts and Humanities from public universities (with an average age of 48 years, of which 52 % were women and 48 % men). They were applied an ad hoc survey (α = 0.82) consisting of questions (grouped into eight sections) about the degree of satisfaction towards different aspects of the EHEA. In the results can be observed that teachers are not completely satisfied with the way in which educational institutions have adapted university education to the EHEA and they have identified certain needs that limit the quality of Arts and Humanities teaching. In conclusion, the most of teachers thought that the implementation of the EHEA could be improved, although a small percentage believed that it had not been implemented correctly.

EVAINU Research

2012 ◽  
pp. 494-508
Author(s):  
Alejandra Bosco
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
University Education ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Curricular Innovation ◽  
University System ◽  
Ict Skills ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The University

New virtual learning environments for educational innovation at the university of the present-future--EVAINU--is a research project financed by the Autonomous University of Barcelona as part of its support for emerging research groups. The project came about as a result of the growing presence of the ICTs in the higher education system and has focused on identifying typical cases, which use these media at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) involving some form of curricular innovation or improvement in accordance with the European convergence processes, which the Spanish university system is currently undergoing. As a result, three case studies of different qualifications were carried out in order to investigate their potential for improving university education. One of these cases--Virtual Veterinary Science--is described in this study. Among the preliminary results of this research so far, of particular interest is the fact that while the ICTs are clearly an important opportunity to make a qualitative leap and to go beyond teaching outlooks based on exposition, passive reception, and memorising, more institutional support is necessary in terms of working strategies, which promote new ways of organising teaching, the development of ICT skills among teaching staff and students, and the creation of incentives for teacher training, among other initiatives.

scholarly journals Latent Profiles of Burnout, Self-Esteem and Depressive Symptomatology among Teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6760
Author(s):  
Inmaculada Méndez ◽  
Juan Pedro Martínez-Ramón ◽  
Cecilia Ruiz-Esteban ◽  
José Manuel García-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Personal Accomplishment ◽  
The Self ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
The Third ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Group 1

Burnout is a reality in the teaching profession. Specifically, teaching staff usually have higher burnout rates. The present study aims to analyze the different burnout profiles and to verify if there were differences between burnout profiles in depressive symptomatology and in the self-esteem of the teachers at school. The total number of participants was 210 teachers from 30 to 65 years. The first scale was the Maslach burnout inventory, the second scale was the Self-Rating depression scale and the third scale was the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. The latent class analysis identified three burnout profiles: the first group with a high level of emotional exhaustion, low personal accomplishment and depersonalization (high burnout); the second group with low emotional exhaustion, low depersonalization and high personal accomplishment (low burnout) and the third group with low depersonalization, low emotional exhaustion and low personal accomplishment (moderate burnout). The results revealed that there were differences in depressive symptomatology (group 1 obtained higher scores than group 2 and group 3) and self-esteem (group 2 obtained higher scores than group 1). The psychological balance and health of teachers depend on preventing the factors that have been associated with this syndrome.

Berufsfelder und -chancen von Wirtschaftsgeographen

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Sternberg
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
University Education ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The University ◽  
Good Career

Occupational fields and career prospects of economic geographers. Empirical evidence from a graduate follow-up study at the Leibniz Universität Hannover and conclusions for teaching at universities. The employability of the alumni has become an important aspect of university teaching in Germany since bachelor and master courses were introduced some years ago. This also applies for the university education of economic geographers. The paper demonstrates the increased and still increasing relevance of employability for economic geographers studying at German universities. Based on data for 295 economic geography graduates from the Leibniz Universität Hannover it is shown that such alumni have rather good career opportunities to achieve both high income and satisfying work conditions. Adequate specialization of the curriculum, excellence in teaching and research, and a close relationship between university teaching (and teachers) and the professional world outside the university are important conditions for successful alumni.

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