scholarly journals Teaching and learning eff eaching and learning effective reflectiv eflective practice for learning at work: actice for learning at work: Evaluating deliv aluating delivery and application of the ST y and application of the STOP tool

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-165
Author(s):  
Matthew Muscat-Inglott ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Moderate Degree ◽  
Learning At Work ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Effective Teaching And Learning ◽  
Do So

This paper explores the design, delivery and evaluation of a new bespoke reflection tool for enhancing informal learning in the workplace via reflection in and on action, as part of an undergraduate reflective practice course component. The rationale underlying the tool is presented first, followed by the results of a mixed-methods study evaluating its delivery and application in practice. Although consistently overestimating their ability to do so, participants ultimately demonstrated only a moderate degree of success in their application of the tool, and experienced greater challenges applying it specifically for reflection in, as opposed to on, action. Favourable reports on the general usefulness of the tool, and various suggestions for improving it were made. The tool is finally presented as a promising resource in the context of longer-term scaffolded interventions for more effective teaching and learning of reflective practice in a wide range of higher education settings.

Blended Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
M. Mahruf C. Shohel ◽  
Md. Ashrafuzzaman ◽  
Md Tariqul Islam ◽  
Shahriar Shams ◽  
Arif Mahmud
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Integral Approach ◽  
Lifelong Learners ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Effective Teaching And Learning ◽  
Blended Teaching

Emerging technologies and the digital transformation in society have changed the way teaching and learning take place. Therefore, techno-pedagogical content knowledge has become an integral approach in modern teaching and learning. This chapter explores issues related to blended teaching and learning in higher education and highlights the challenges and opportunities it possesses. This chapter also outlines how to overcome challenges to provide effective teaching and learning by exploring literature. Moreover, it categorizes challenges for discussion to identify possible solutions and outlines recommendations. In support of evidence, a case study approach was used along with a review of the literature to draw evidence for a wide range of best practices. According to the findings, the blended teaching and learning model allows students to learn freely, demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways, and develop crucial knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will help them become lifelong learners.

scholarly journals Teaching in Indian Higher Education: Six Principles for Improvement

2018 ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Sayantan Mandal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
National Study ◽  
Current State ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
Effective Teaching And Learning

While traditional, information-oriented lectures have been the de-facto practice in Indian higher education institutions (HEIs), they are often not effective in imparting learning. There is a need to reform instruction in colleges and universities, focusing on effective teaching and learning methods. As a first step in that direction, a national study of selected public HEIs attempts to assess the current state of teaching by focusing on different teaching practices at the undergraduate and master’s (graduate) levels. The study reflects on issues and challenges and suggests six principles to help improve teaching in Indian college and universities. This is a synthesis of the research, based on empirical evidence.

scholarly journals Designing a learning analytics dashboard for Twitter-facilitated teaching

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Gruzd ◽  
Nadia Conroy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning ◽  
Course Material

Social media sites are increasingly being adopted to support teaching practice in higher education. Learning Analytics (LA) dashboards can be used to reveal how students engage with course material and others in the class. However, research on the best practices of designing, developing, and evaluating such dashboards to support teaching and learning with social media has been limited. Considering the increasing use of Twitter for both formal and informal learning processes, this paper presents our design process and a LA prototype dashboard developed based on a comprehensive literature review and an online survey among 54 higher education instructors who have used Twitter in their teaching. Keywords : Learning analytics, teaching, dashboards, survey

scholarly journals Walking Methodologies with/in Teacher Education

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asilia Franklin-Phipps ◽  
Tristan Gleason
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Practitioner Research ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Academic Register ◽  
Written Word ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

This essay begins with the limitations of reflection in teacher education practitioner research. We wonder about the confines of a reflective practice that is solitary, ahistorical, and written in a particular academic register with an audience of one in mind. Instead, we explore the potential of walking methodologies as critical praxes with a group of pre-service educators. To do so we take a walk that is collective and focused on the way history is entangled with the students’ multimodal responses to this experience. We argue that walking as reflective praxis produces different possibilities in the space of teacher education. Pre-service educators participated in a mode of public pedagogy that challenges the treatment of teaching and learning as ahistorical and universal processes that can be neatly represented by the written word.

scholarly journals "The confidence to do things that I know nothing about" - Skills development through extra-curricular inquiry activity

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Peter Wood ◽  
Sabine Little ◽  
Louise Goldring ◽  
Laura Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Transferable Skills ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Educational Enhancement

This paper presents the findings of a survey given to students engaging in educational enhancement activities in inquiry/enquiry-based learning at two Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). The students involved were asked to comment on the skills they felt that they had developed as part of their roles as 'interns' and 'ambassadors'. These comments were analysed inductively and several strong themes emerged. Students valued the opportunity to engage in such activities, which they felt developed a wide range of transferable skills and impacted positively upon their academic work and their prospects for future employment. While there is a considerable amount of literature on Higher Education and skills development, a growing body of work on how curricular IBL impacts upon students' capabilities, and a plethora of studies on how paid and unpaid extra-curricular activities impact upon students' educational achievement, few studies have sought to relate these areas of research.

Using Blogs to Traverse Physical and Virtual Spaces

2012 ◽  
pp. 148-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerryn Newbegin ◽  
Leonard Webster
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Formal Study ◽  
The Cost ◽  
New Strategies

The development of physical and virtual learning spaces is prominent in the current higher education context, however a preoccupation with the design of these environments must not be at the cost of the learner. This chapter proposes that new ways of thinking need to be adopted and new strategies for collaborating need to be developed to enable students and teachers to traverse the physical and virtual environments. In traversing these spaces, learners must use them to best advantage, both within the higher education context, and then later in the professional arena in which they will be operating. Specifically this chapter will examine the use of one collaboration tool—blogs— to bridge the gap between the physical and the virtual, the formal and the informal learning spaces. Strategies for using blogs will be presented as a tool for students and educators to enable and promote knowledge creation, and to develop a habit of reflective practice both during and after formal study.

scholarly journals An Interview-Based Study of Pioneering Experiences in Teaching and Learning Complex Systems in Higher Education

Complexity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph T. Lizier ◽  
Michael S. Harré ◽  
Melanie Mitchell ◽  
Simon DeDeo ◽  
Conor Finn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Assessment Task ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
University Level ◽  
Compare And Contrast

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of complex systems as a field, students studying complex systems at university level have diverse disciplinary backgrounds. This brings challenges (e.g., wide range of computer programming skills) but also opportunities (e.g., facilitating interdisciplinary interactions and projects) for the classroom. However, little has been published regarding how these challenges and opportunities are handled in teaching and learning complex systems as an explicit subject in higher education and how this differs in comparison to other subject areas. We seek to explore these particular challenges and opportunities via an interview-based study of pioneering teachers and learners (conducted amongst the authors) regarding their experiences. We compare and contrast those experiences and analyze them with respect to the educational literature. Our discussions explored approaches to curriculum design, how theories/models/frameworks of teaching and learning informed decisions and experience, how diversity in student backgrounds was addressed, and assessment task design. We found a striking level of commonality in the issues expressed as well as the strategies handling them, for example, a significant focus on problem-based learning and the use of major student-led creative projects for both achieving and assessing learning outcomes.

Who Gets to Chew the Cracker? Engaging the Student in Learning in Higher Education

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelly Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Student ◽  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Skill ◽  
Effective Pedagogy ◽  
Effective Teaching And Learning

Masterful professors not only grow in knowledge of their discipline, they also grow in sharpening their teaching skill. This article examines effective teaching and learning in the higher education context. More specifically, it looks at how effective pedagogy aims to see the student fully engaged in the learning process. It explores what it means to engage the college student in learning, why it is important, and several strategies to facilitate engagement in learning. Really, in its simplest form, it is all about who gets to chew the cracker!

scholarly journals Facilitating reflective practice: developing built environment educators’ capacity for teaching and learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gesa Ruge ◽  
Lara Mackintosh
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Teaching Philosophy

The international literature on higher education emphasises the importance for academics and professional staff to develop their disciplinary teaching and learning practice. Teaching staff in built environment degree programs tend to focus on ‘what’ subject content is taught and less on ‘how to’ improve and innovate teaching and learning contexts and students’ skills development. To investigate these trends, this research reviewed the higher education literature and relevant international studies on strategies to enhance quality teaching and student learning. Findings highlight that reflective practice and engaging in a personal teaching philosophy and teaching profile provide an important link for individual professional development and basis for improving teaching and learning. The objective of this study was to apply findings from the literature in facilitating professional learning workshops, with a pedagogy for collaborative reflective practice and the development of a teaching philosophy. This research reports on the first stage of professional development for staff in built environment programs to establish a teaching profile through reflection on their personal and discipline specific pedagogies. Initial findings highlight the positive impact of reflection and collegial conversations about learning and teaching, as well as future opportunities for individual and discipline based capacity building for improving educational practice.

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