scholarly journals Functions of digital learning within the international mobility programme – perspectives of university students and staff from Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Leek ◽  
Marcin Rojek
Keyword(s):  
Academic Community ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Oral Expression ◽  
Group Interviews

AbstractThis paper is based on research studies conducted in the academic community of students and staff members (teachers, researchers and administrative staff) from 16 European universities that focus on digital learning in international mobility. The context of our qualitative study is digital learning during an international mobility scheme when university staff and students do not go abroad for their mobility programme but take courses offered by a partner university from home. By taking the perspectives of both of these academic groups, we aimed to arrive at a clearer understanding of how the digital environment supports digital learning within mobility, ascertain the functions of digital learning and describe the opportunities and challenges that are presented to students engaged in international mobility. Empirical data was gathered using questionnaires and focus group interviews. This study puts forward the assertion that distinctive features of learning in a digital environment within international mobility are systems thinking, self-directed learning and focus on course content. Digital learning environments support motivation to learn, and independence in gaining knowledge. In international digital learning, the online courses of which are characterized by their innovative pedagogical and assessment practices, students and staff become more autonomous in their learning, and more willing to open up to meeting the challenges encountered in various educational settings. Digital learning in the context of mobility means giving meaning to one’s own activity in a digital environment and extension of the course content, meaning oral expression such as discussing and interacting with teachers and peers.

scholarly journals Self-directed Learning in Secondary Education During Remote Study Process. Case Study in Latvia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gatis Lāma ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Spatial Presence ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
Study Materials ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Directed Learning

Due to rapid technological changes and innovations, by graduation students have to be equipped with skills necessary for lifelong learning. There is an increasing potential for students’ further development in the digital environment. In high school, it is necessary to build and improve the students’ skills of self-assessing their own learning needs, as well as setting educational objectives and measuring their success. The importance of self-directed learning has increased particularly in the context of COVID-19. In many countries, educational institutions are closed and studying process is remote, reducing the level of teacher involvement and increasing pupils’ own responsibility for their learning outcomes. Changing the classroom from direct spatial presence to the digital environment also changes learning opportunities and increases the importance of digital skills. It is therefore necessary to identify whether pupils possess the necessary self-directed learning skills for the purpose of learning, selecting activities and study materials, managing time, structuring the learning environment, skills to communicate and collaborate and assess their performance, as well as the digital skills needed to organise the digital learning environment and identify the major challenges in remote learning. The results of the study show that pupils have assessed their self-driving learning skills as sufficient, however, as well as that the learning process has been challenging and has created motivational, self-discipline and socializing problems.

scholarly journals Online Graduate Student Perceptions of Program Community

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Shepherd ◽  
Doris Bolliger
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Course Content ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Directed Learning

Facilitating an online course in today’s student population requires an educator to be innovative and creative and to have an impactful online presence. In the current online learning environment (also known as e-learning), keeping students’ thoughtfully engaged and motivated while dispensing the required course content necessitates faculty enabling a safe, nonjudgmental environment whereby views, perspectives, and personal and professional experiences are encouraged. The educator must exhibit an educator-facilitated active, student-centered learning process, whereby students are held accountable for their active participation and self-directed learning while balancing a facilitator role to further enhance the learning process. This article explores one educator’s reflective practice process that has been developed over numerous years as a very early adopter of online education. It will explore the organizational aspect of teaching-facilitating a dynamic robust online course.

Personal Reflections on the Educational Potential and Future of Closed Captioning on the Web

2012 ◽  
pp. 221-229
Author(s):  
Sean Zdenek
Keyword(s):  
Digital Learning ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Study Guides ◽  
Closed Captioning ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Review Course ◽  
Closed Captions ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Educational Potential ◽  
The Web

This chapter explores the value of closed captioning in universal design. While closed captions positively impact a wide range of our students—deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing—they also have the potential to create more robust and interactive digital learning systems. Caption technology can address the current limitations of video search and retrieval by offering students fully searchable, fully clickable interactive transcripts. The future of closed captioning on the Web will offer students a means to search the video collection of an entire course, or even across all of the videos produced in all of the courses of a department, college, or university. In this future learning environment, captions will enable students to use keywords not only to find and review course content across multiple videos but also to insert their own “margin” notes, share comments with students, and create customizable video mash-ups as study guides.

Development of self-directed learning readiness with experiential learning model in analytical chemistry laboratory

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 09-16
Author(s):  
Fatma Alkan
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Chemistry ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Learning Readiness ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Group Interviews

This paper aims to analyse the effect of quantitative analysis practices in analytical chemistry laboratory designed according to the experiential learning model on the self-directed learning readiness of prospective teachers’. In the research, experiential learning model has four steps that are concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualisation and active participation. A single group, pre-test post-test experimental design was used. The study group consists of 14 prospective chemistry teachers’. The self-directed learning readiness scale and focus group interviews were used as a data collection tool. After the application increase, the level of self-directed learning readiness. Difference between pre-test and post-test scores of the study group was significant. When the sub-scales of the scale examined, there was a meaningful difference in the ‘willingness to learn and self-control’ sub- scales. In the focus group interviews, the prospective teachers’ emphasised that experiential learning provided an understanding of the purpose of quantitative applications of analytical chemistry. Keywords: Self-directed learning readiness, experiential learning model, analytical chemistry laboratory.

Empowering research in digital environment: a collaborative approach by Indian agricultural libraries and research centres

Bibliosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 14-23
Author(s):  
N. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Academic Community ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Research Support ◽  
University System ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
The University ◽  
Research Centres

The article discusses the use of digital platforms, consortiums, collaborative online catalogues that have substantially transformed the Indian agricultural libraries and are playing a significant role in research support in digital environment. It describes the use of CeRA (Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture) online platform in Pantvarsity for the five years. It is shown that the use of these e-resources by the academic community of the university has a declining trend. The analysis has revealed that while research information available through the platform is highly valued in the university system, many patrons including students and faculties both are not largely dependent only on the consortium resources, and are likely be comfortable with other easily available open access research materials over the web, repositories or print journals and digital repositories. The author suggests that librarians should create greater awareness about the consortium resources, identify barriers, faced by the academic community in accessing these resources for fruitful utilization of this platform.

scholarly journals The Main Aspects of Ukrainian Teaching Staff Mobility As Integration Process In The Global Labor Market

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 282
Author(s):  
Roman Shabanov ◽  
Olena Kovalenko ◽  
Iryna Shulga ◽  
Iryna Dobroskok ◽  
Liudmyla Peretyaha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
European Universities ◽  
State Pedagogical ◽  
Global Labor Market

Purpose: To determine the main aspects of Ukrainian teaching staff mobility as integration process in the global society. Material: The survey involved female teachers (n=108) from H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University (Kharkiv, Ukraine) and Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhoryi Skovoroda State Pedagogical University (Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine). The survey contained mains aspects of teaching staff mobility, respondents chose the proposed variants of each issue and explain their choice. Results: It was determined that the most important aspects of Ukrainian teaching staff mobility were expansion of professional contacts, opportunity to gain experience in European universities, development in their professional area, gain the experience in a new professional area, international mobility, professional growth. The less attractive aspects of teaching staff mobility were increase in publication activity, the prospect of working abroad on a rolling basis, internal (regional) mobility, aspiration of permanent self-improvement. Conclusions: The level of professional mobility of Ukrainian teaching staff increase a lot last years due to the external politics of government and integration processes of modern society and it is considered to be the most effective way for professional development and competitive ability on the labor market.

scholarly journals Vector AR3-APP – A Good-Practice Example of Learning with Augmented Reality

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Karin Langer ◽  
Stefanie Lietze ◽  
Gerd Ch. Krizek
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Augmented Reality Application ◽  
Directed Learning

AbstractAfter a discussion about the possibilities and status of augmented reality in education, a good practice example of an augmented reality application is presented. This case study examines the use of an augmented reality app in higher education to support abstract STEM content, such as vectors. Based on this example, the implementation of such apps in didactic concepts and self-directed learning will be discussed. Furthermore, aspects of integration into digital learning and teaching will be addressed.

scholarly journals Implementing innovative teaching methods in the digital environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 01024
Author(s):  
Tatyana Glotova ◽  
Irina Kolchugina
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
State University ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Digital Learning Environment ◽  
Modern Information

The article examines the issues of adopting the innovative teaching methods to effectively organise the educational process within blended and distance learning and teaching. The examples of curricula design using modern information technologies and elements (resources and activities) of the digital learning environment of Penza State University are given. The teaching methods and features of their employment are described. The authors highlight the need for further elaborating the issues of ongoing methodological support for teachers in the field of information and pedagogical technologies.

scholarly journals The role and professional development of a teacher at a contemporary University

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 18052
Author(s):  
Marina Volodina ◽  
Natalia Vartanova ◽  
Elzara Tsybenko
Keyword(s):  
Professional Competence ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Digital Learning Environment ◽  
Vocational Teacher

This article is devoted to the study of the role of the present teacher in the period of transformation of the traditional education system and transition to a digital environment. The article analyzes possible ways and strategies to improve the quality of vocational teacher education in the current conditions. Particular emphasis is given to the necessity of changing the correlations between different components of teaching skills in the digital educational process, as well as the personality and professional competence of the teacher as the most important component of ensuring the success and effectiveness of the educational process in a digital learning environment.

scholarly journals Writing on the walls: Engaging students through whiteboards

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Pruneda ◽  
Amber Wilson ◽  
Jessica Riedmueller
Keyword(s):  
Physical Space ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Carnegie Classification ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Gate Count ◽  
Master's Colleges And Universities ◽  
Student Workers ◽  
The University

In today’s digital environment, connecting with students in a meaningful way can be difficult. Our recent whiteboard project at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA) was a successful way for us to engage students in the physical space of the library. UCA’s Carnegie classification is “Master’s Colleges and Universities (larger programs)” and had a total enrollment of 11,487 students for the fall 2016 semester. For the fiscal year 2015–16 our gate count was 482,934 students. The UCA Library operations are managed by 11 faculty members and 30 staff members, plus the assistance of 35 student workers.

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