Library instruction, individualised learning and independent learnings

1978 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Hatt

Within higher education courses are being designed which emphasise the acquisition of learning skills rather than the absorption of ‘blocks’ of subject knowledge. Such courses indicate the way in which library-based learning skills can be developed alongside other learning skills, and also show the necessity of the librarian’s involvement in course design teams. This approach to library teaching has been developed most, perhaps, in art and design libraries where the demands of the ‘hidden curriculum’ have always been felt, if not overtly acknowledged.(The text of a paper presented at the ARLIS Seminar on User Education held at Leeds Polytechnic, 7-8 April, 1978.)

2011 ◽  
pp. 313-335
Author(s):  
Michael R. Johnson

Higher education institutions rely increasingly on information and communications technology (ICT) to provide learning opportunities. Written to support this enterprise, the Guidelines for Networked Learning in Higher Education (Goodyear & NLinHE Team, 2001) carefully blend theory and practice to provide a wealth of sound advice for course design teams. The focus is on “promoting connections” that directly relate to learning. However, in nursing, 6 years after the Guidelines were published, levels of students’ skills and engagement with ICT remain problematic, which undermines attempts to deploy networked learning. I argue that for such initiatives to succeed, other, more foundational connections need also to be promoted. I focus on some of the factors that contribute to student nurses’ ICT non-engagement: gender, caring, professional identity, and knowledge work. Finally, I explain how some of the barriers identified can be overcome through integrating ICT. HE programs can provide students with meaningful encounters with ICT in the different elements of a course: curriculum, teaching methods, and assessment, as well as informal learning through online forums. If successful, this integration can promote the students’ development of working knowledge in ICT, and increase the chances of their engagement in networked learning and evidence-based practice.


2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Eurídice Minerva Ochoa-Villanueva ◽  
Karina Decyre Rengifo-Mattos

Este trabajo presenta un análisis de los antecedentes de los cursos de contenido disciplinar que incorporan a la lectura y la escritura como medios tanto para el aprendizaje de los conocimientos del área, como de la discursividad académica de la disciplina. Asimismo, expone un panorama de los fundamentos teóricos que subyacen a dichos cursos en América Latina y de la manera en que se operan en esta misma región. Se encontró que las teorías a partir de las que se diseñan y ponen en marcha se manifiestan en distintos ámbitos: en la manera en que se conciben el lenguaje, la lectura y la escritura; en la forma en que se entiende su enseñanza; y en el enfoque desde el que se define a los estudiantes a quienes se dirigen las propuestas. Además, se destacan tres formas de impartirlos: el modelo de profesores asociados, uno disciplinar y un especialista en lengua; el de asesorías, en el que el docente disciplinar recibe asesoría del de lengua; y el de apoyo a programas, en el que el especialista en lengua trabaja con los estudiantes en sesiones paralelas a las del disciplinar. En Latinoamérica, los cursos disciplinares con lectura y escritura como medios para el aprendizaje son heterogéneos no solamente en su formulación de origen, sino en sus fundamentos teóricos y en su operación. Asimismo, experimentan diferentes grados de consolidación. Profundizar en su estudio los puede fortalecer, así como enriquecer el campo de conocimiento de la enseñanza de la escritura en la universidad. This article presents a background analysis of subject courses that incorporate reading and writing as a way to learn both subject knowledge and the discursive representation of the discipline. It also provides an overview of the theoretical foundations that underlie these courses in Latin America and how they operate in this region. Findings demonstrate that the theories guiding course design and implementation manifest themselves in at least three different domains: the way language, reading and writing are conceived for the design of these courses; the way the courses are taught; and the way the target students are defined. In addition, three different teaching models can be identified: the associate teacher model that includes both a subject teacher and a writing teacher; the model in which the subject teacher receives advice on how to teach writing; and lastly, the program support model, in which the writing and subject teachers work separately with students in parallel sessions. In Latin America, subject courses that include reading and writing as a means of learning are heterogeneous not only in their formulation, but also in their theoretical foundations and their operationalisation. They are also at different levels of consolidation. Studying these courses in greater depth offers a way not only to strengthen them, but to enrich the field of university-level writing instruction in general.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-97
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Thomson ◽  
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Greg Auhl ◽  
Philip Uys ◽  
Denise Wood ◽  
...  

This paper reports on the development of an evidenced-based method guiding the review, design and development of higher education courses (programs), supported by a bespoke, purpose-specific software platform. It describes the outcome of a five-year process of development for both the method and for the supporting technology, where feedback was obtained from stakeholders across the institution, evaluated and enacted. The paper describes the best practice approaches embedded within the method, as well as the underlying theory bases and the procedures that contributed to the evolution of the current product. The lessons learned by the project team can inform others in similar higher education contexts thereby avoiding the pitfalls described.


2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin A. Majeski ◽  
Merrily Stover ◽  
Teresa Valais ◽  
Judah Ronch

Given the complex challenges organizations face and the importance of emotional intelligence to effective leadership, management education has begun to help adult learners develop emotional intelligence competencies. These include emotional self-control, conflict management, teamwork, cultural awareness, and inspirational leadership, among other qualities. Leaders and managers must navigate a landscape of challenges which demand effective teamwork, fresh perspectives, and an empathic understanding of others with whom they work to inform sound decision making. This article discusses aspects of Mayer and Salovey’s model of emotional intelligence. It proposes specific course design and instructional strategies which may foster emotional intelligence in adult learners, especially those in the online learning environment, based on this model. The article points to directions for future research which would empirically examine the effectiveness of these strategies on the development of emotional intelligence in adult learners in online higher education courses.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 737-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Gess ◽  
Christoph Geiger ◽  
Matthias Ziegler

Abstract. Although the development of research competency is an important goal of higher education in social sciences, instruments to measure this outcome often depend on the students’ self-ratings. To provide empirical evidence for the utility of a newly developed instrument for the objective measurement of social-scientific research competency, two validation studies across two independent samples were conducted. Study 1 ( n = 675) provided evidence for unidimensionality, expected differences in test scores between differently advanced groups of students as well as incremental validities over and above self-perceived research self-efficacy. In Study 2 ( n = 82) it was demonstrated that the competency measured indeed is social-scientific and relations to facets of fluid and crystallized intelligence were analyzed. Overall, the results indicate that the test scores reflected a trainable, social-scientific, knowledge-related construct relevant to research performance. These are promising results for the application of the instrument in the evaluation of research education courses in higher education.


NASPA Journal ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan B. Hirt

This essay compares the narratives that have emerged in recent years to describe the higher education enterprise with the narratives used to describe student affairs’ endeavors. I posit that the way in which student affairs professionals present their agenda is out of sync with the market-driven culture of the academy. The seven Principles of Good Practice are used to illustrate the incongruence between student affairs and academic affairs narratives on campus. I offer ways that those Principles can be recast to be more closely aligned with the new academic marketplace.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Jiří Rybička ◽  
Petra Čačková

One of the tools to determine the recommended order of the courses to be taught is to set the prerequisites, that is, the conditions that have to be fulfilled before commencing the study of the course. The recommended sequence of courses is to follow logical links between their logical units, as the basic aim is to provide students with a coherent system according to the Comenius' principle of continuity. Declared continuity may, on the other hand, create organizational complications when passing through the study, as failure to complete one course may result in a whole sequence of forced deviations from the recommended curriculum and ultimately in the extension of the study period. This empirical study deals with the quantitative evaluation of the influence of the level of initial knowledge given by the previous study on the overall results in a certain follow-up course. In this evaluation, data were obtained that may slightly change the approach to determining prerequisites for higher education courses.


Author(s):  
Hans Gustafson

This chapter offers instructors in higher education some basic tools and elements of course design for interreligious encounter in the undergraduate classroom. Aiming at practice over theory, it provides practical suggestions for fostering interreligious understanding from the first day of class through the end of the semester. These suggestions include the use of guest speakers, interdisciplinary case studies, in-class reflections, and interreligious community engagement (i.e., “service learning”), among others. Further, it provides a concise bibliography of basic introductory texts for both students and instructors in the areas of comparative theology, theologies of religions and religious pluralisms, and interreligious studies and dialogue.


Author(s):  
Virginia Davis

This chapter reviews the book University Education of the Parochial Clergy in Medieval England: The Lincoln Diocese, c.1300–c.1350 (2014), by F. Donald Logan. In 1298, Pope Boniface VIII’s constitution cum ex eo was published. It was considered a landmark in the provisions of higher education for the parish clergy, opening the way for parish rectors who had not yet been ordained as priests to absent themselves from their parishes for up to seven years to attend university. Logan explores how this constitution was implemented across Europe by focusing on the diocese of Lincoln, the largest in England with nearly 2,000 parishes. Logan emphasises the distinction between cum ex eo dispensations and the parallel procedure called licencia studendi, both of which contributed significantly to the enhancement of clerical education in fourteenth-century England.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Khalid Ayad ◽  
Khaoula Dobli Bennani ◽  
Mostafa Elhachloufi

The concept of governance has become ubiquitous since it is recognized as an important tool for improving quality in all aspects of higher education.In Morocco, few scientific articles have dealt with the subject of university governance. Therefore, we will present a general review of the evolution of governance through laws and reforms established by Moroccan Governments from 1975 to 2019. The purpose of the study is to detect the extent of the presence of university governance principles in these reforms.This study enriches the theoretical literature on the crisis of Moroccan university and opens the way to new empirical studies to better understand the perception of university governance concept in the Moroccan context and to improve the quality of higher education and subsequently the economic development of the country.The findings of this study show an increasing evolution of the presence of university governance principles in reforms and higher education laws.


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