scholarly journals Experiential Learning and Peer Teaching to Develop PowerPoint Slide Formatting Skills

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
Kay Maree Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Peer Teaching ◽  
First Year ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Literacy Course ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Face Time ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Specific Learning

Construction of visual material to enhance audience understanding of an oral presentation is an important skill in educational and professional settings. Many first-year undergraduates may not be familiar with the basic principles of effective slide design to increase audience understanding. However, faculty face time pressures to train students on effective use of information technology for educational activities. This paper reports on the development and use of a time-efficient, engaging, in-class activity involving specific learning criteria for slide design in an academic literacy course. The activity is based on experiential learning and peer teaching to increase student ability and confidence with creating PowerPoint slides for first year undergraduates. Students evaluated the activity positively and were able to achieve most of the learning criteria. Recommendations for further development of the activity are provided.

scholarly journals Sense of belonging and first-year academic literacy

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-142
Author(s):  
Steve Marshall ◽  
Mingming Zhou ◽  
Ted Gervan ◽  
Sunita Wiebe
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
First Year ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Writing Courses ◽  
Literacy Course ◽  
The University

In this article, we analyze a broad range of factors that affect the sense of belonging of undergraduate students taking a first-year academic literacy course (ALC) at a multicultural, multilingual university in Vancouver, Canada. Students who fail to meet the university’s language and literacy requirements are required to pass ALC before they can enrol in writing courses across the disciplines. Consequently, many of those students feel that they have yet to be accepted as fully legitimate members of the university community. We present data from a two-year, mixed-method study, which involved asking students in surveys and interviews about their sense of belonging, as well as analyzing their reflective writing samples for issues related to their sense of belonging. We found that the participants’ perceptions of sense of belonging are multilayered and context-dependent, relating to changes in time and space, classroom pedagogy, and other social, cultural, and linguistic factors. Implications for higher education are discussed.  

scholarly journals Treasure Hunt in the Library: An Exercise in Academic Literacy

10.28945/3092 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Langley
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
World View ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Literacy Course ◽  
The Impact

This paper presents an Academic Literacy course designed for first year students in our department. The course is based on a set of relevant reading materials and covers knowledge levels and classification systems, logical and physical library organization principles, physical and virtual search for publications, bibliographic citations and referencing methods and purposes. The paper describes two, out-of-class, activities related to the academic and public libraries in the information age. The first activity, the “Book Hunt”, organizes the students’ conceptions of the variety of functions being served and the impact of information technology on retrieving academic publications. Students’ response to a reflective assignment dealing with concepts and impressions is described. The second activity “Visiting a public library”, involves interviewing the librarian and writing a report on the structure and functions of the library. The paper discusses features of students’ reports and indicates the contribution of the activities to the students’ academic world view.

scholarly journals Decolonising an Academic Literacy curriculum at the University of the Free State with creative writing: challenges and opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Peet van Aardt
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
First Year ◽  
Literacy Curriculum ◽  
African Students ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Literacy Course ◽  
Graded Readers ◽  
The University ◽  
Local Narratives

As part of the first year Academic Literacy course at the UFS, students are required to study graded readers. The booklets are abridged versions of Western fiction, therefore these narratives reinforce the colonial presence in our curriculum. But South African students need to read local narratives in order to learn about each other – from each other. By taking part in the Initiative for Creative African Narratives (iCAN) students improve our curriculum by writing their own short stories so that they become contributors of material that will be graded and tested to form part of the UFS Academic Literacy curriculum. Thereby, students contribute to larger bodies of knowledge through their lived experiences. This paper reflects on the challenges and opportunities within the iCAN process.

scholarly journals Open Online Assignment Submission: First Year Students' Behavior and Views

10.28945/3230 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Langley ◽  
Miky Ronen ◽  
Shlomit Ben Shachar
Keyword(s):  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Intentional Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Support ◽  
Open Forum ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Student Access ◽  
Literacy Course

The Open Assignment Submission (OAS) is an innovative regime whereby students submit homework assignments of an appropriate nature into a designated open forum provided by the Learning Management System (LMS). Our previous research, carried out with a cohort of Education graduates, indicated possible benefits and challenges of OAS as a means of supporting assignment submission through learning from peer examples. The current paper presents a recent explorative case study into the behaviour patterns and views of 55 first year students regarding OAS, during the very early stages of the Academic Literacy course. Drawing on two main data sources (a self-report questionnaire and data of student access and submission retrieved from the course LMS records) we have found characteristic patterns of peer-example viewing, assignment submission schedules and related grades. The OAS regime appears to provide an appreciated learning support and has a potential to promote intentional learning.

scholarly journals Developing reading in a first-year academic literacy course

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arlys L Van Wyk ◽  
Willfred J Greyling
Keyword(s):  
Academic Literacy ◽  
First Year ◽  
Literacy Course

scholarly journals Reading competency of first-year undergraduate students at University of Botswana: A case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beauty B. Ntereke ◽  
Boitumelo T. Ramoroka
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Reading Levels ◽  
First Semester ◽  
University Of Botswana ◽  
Students First ◽  
Literacy Course ◽  
The University

The ability to read and interpret textbooks and other assigned material is a critical component of success at university level. Therefore, the aims of this study are twofold: to evaluate the reading levels of first-year students when they first enter the university to determine how adequately prepared they are for university reading. It is also to find out if there will be any significant improvement after going through the academic literacy course offered to first-year students. The participants were 51 first-year undergraduate humanities students enrolled in the Communication and Academic Literacy course at the University of Botswana. The data were collected through a reading test adopted from Zulu which was administered at the beginning of the first semester. The same test was administered at the end of the semester after the students had gone through the academic literacy course to see if there was any difference in performance. The findings of this study indicate that there is a mixed and wide variation of students reading competency levels when students first enter the university and that a significant number of first-year entrants are inadequately prepared for university reading.

V. M. ZHIRMUNSKY AS A FOLKLORIST. ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL TYPOLOGY METHODS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 108-128
Author(s):  
Anna I. Kovalevskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Successful Search ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
High Regard ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Further Development

The article considers the main stages in formation of the method for the comparative historical typology the first steps of which were made by A.N. Veselovsky in the second half of the 19 th century. For example, the point elaborated upon in “Historical Poetics” concerning consequential evolution of genres and poetic forms that reflect social reality became the starting point for the further development of that method. Work in this direction was continued later on by V.M. Zhirmunsky. At the beginning of his career in academia he dwelled upon the issues of literary theory and – while keeping “Historical Poetics” in high regard – continued Veselovsky’s work in the field of literary studies. However, turning to folklore material, he managed to develop the basic principles of the comparative historical method: first of all, he had analysed and systematised the extensive epic material, what allowed him to reveal in the folklore work the national and the general, for the successful search and analysis of which the method was necessary. The author analysis of the works of Zhirmunsky, that contain his main ideas, and considers not only his suggestions on how to work with folk material, and also the features of the comparative typological method, as well as the development of Zhirmunsky’s ideas in the works of his students, followers and scientists who came to a similar result on their own (for example, V.Ya. Propp) and influenced further refinement of the methods of comparative typology.

Experience of creating a digital multimedia game

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-148
Author(s):  
О.В. Крежевских ◽  
А.И. Михайлова
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Team Interaction ◽  
Digital Multimedia ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Creative Tasks

Создание геймифицированных образовательных ресурсов позволяет повысить мотивацию студентов к обучению, индивидуализировать образовательные маршруты, обеспечить вариативность содержания образования, учесть ограничения в здоровье. Цель настоящей статьи состоит в описании принципов разработки цифровых мультимедийных игр для сферы профессионального образования с учетом командного взаимодействия представителей различных профессиональных групп. В результате исследования выделены основные принципы разработки цифровых мультимедийных игр, предполагающие использование звуковых, анимационных и других эффектов при проведении корпоративных сеансов и выполнении творческих заданий. Практическая значимость заключается в возможности использования описанных принципов для дальнейшей разработки геймифицированных ресурсов. The creation of gamified resources makes it possible to increase the students’ motivation with the content of activities, to individualize educational routes, to ensure the variability of the content of education, to take into account health restrictions. The aim of this article is to describe the principles of developing digital multimedia games for vocational education, taking into account the team interaction of representatives of various professional groups. As a result of the study the basic principles of the development of digital multimedia games are highlighted, involving the use of sound, animation and other effects for corporate sessions and for doing creative tasks. The practical significance lies in the possibility of using the described principles for further development of gamified resources.

‘Dracarys’ for all: TV series and experiential learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 135050762110533
Author(s):  
Brigitte Biehl
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Film Experience ◽  
Specific Learning ◽  
Point Of Reference

Film has been widely used for management learning, mostly with a focus on the story rather than on the film experience. This study draws on arts-based learning literature, film studies and data from learning interactions, and develops a taxonomy of experiential learning with film as a specific art form and emotional medium. The taxonomy includes three elements: making a film experience, processing the experience and cultural aesthetic reflexivity. This study provides process steps and teaching strategies to help move management learners along in the process towards specific learning outcomes. It introduces a film analysis tool as a method that can be used to overcome aesthetic muteness when reflecting on the film experience. The acclaimed and contested TV series Game of Thrones serves as a point of reference, and examples feature the female leader Daenerys Targaryen. The approach is transferable across films and TV series to integrate knowing, experience and emotions and to use popular culture’s critical potential for management learning.

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