Enhancing the Ability of Students to Engage With Theoretical Concepts Through the Creation of Learner-Generated Video Assessment

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon R. Walters ◽  
Julia Hallas ◽  
Sean Phelps ◽  
Erika Ikeda
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Sports Management ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Video Assessment ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Key Driver ◽  
Management Students

Even though technology has become a key driver in preparing sports management students for an increasingly globalized industry, it is unclear whether the affordances of these technologies contribute to the transformation of the learning environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate how a learner-generated video assessment develops students’ critical thinking and engagement with the theoretical concepts taught in an undergraduate second-year Sociology of Sport course. Data were gathered using a qualitative case study approach. Students found the video assessment enjoyable; it promoted critical thinking and engagement with theory. However, students were less interested in technology-based assessment than the need for courses to align learning strategies and assessment methods to the graduate capabilities required to transform their discipline in the workplace. We argue that it is this alignment that will lead to a transformation in the learning environment and quality student engagement, rather than the video technology itself.

scholarly journals University Students’ Learning Disruption and Affordance in a Contested Learning Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Siti Nur'Aini
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Social

This study investigates how university students engage with their learning affordances in a contested environment due to the Coronavirus pandemic. This qualitative research employed a case study approach involving 136 participants. Data analysis was conducted using qualitative analysis as a circular process to describe, classify, and perceive the phenomenon and how the learning, affordances, and society were interconnected. The main framework of the research was the theory of affordance and how it was available for university students in their learning environment that changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected in the first semester of 2020 through an online survey on Google form. The findings indicate the importance of the social environment to provide affordance for the students to adjust with them. Four kinds of affordances emerged from the study; internet affordance, assignment affordance, domestic affordance, and distance learning affordance. The role of the social environment is definitive in changing how students manage their affordances.

Anatomy of Green Marketing

2014 ◽  
pp. 125-142
Author(s):  
Elif Yolbulan Okan ◽  
Neva Yalman
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Market ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Green Marketing ◽  
Green Product ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Political Economic

There has been much discussion since the late 1980s concerning “green” issues. Society is becoming increasingly concerned with the rapid depletion of the world's resources and the increasing rate that the environment is being polluted by our activities. Since environmental improvement and competitiveness are defined as the new paradigm for the world economy, green marketing has been one of the most popular topics in the business arena. This chapter aims to examine this concept from several different perspectives. The first section summarizes the evolution of the green marketing concept with the help of theoretical underpinnings. The criticisms regarding green marketing are also discussed. The second section investigates green consumer behavior. In order to position green product offerings, companies need to understand the characteristics and buying patterns of different segments of the green consumer. This section helps to identify the Turkish green consumer. The language and appeals used in environmental communication are very important in changing attitudes. Thus, the third section focuses on the effectiveness of green messages. In the last part of the chapter, the Gezi Park protests from Turkey are examined as an important case with political, economic, social and international impacts as well as its triggering effect of leading to mindful consumption. This chapter explores existing literature on an interest provoking subject--green marketing--as well as integrating theoretical concepts with a recent social event from an emerging market with a case study approach.

Putting Across Tangibility

2018 ◽  
pp. 211-225
Author(s):  
Dieu Hack-Polay
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Organisational Behaviour ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The Subject

This chapter examines a case study-approach to teaching organisational behaviour. It explains the effectiveness of the use of case study in teaching the subject which is often termed theoretical and complex. The chapter advocates that the use of real life organisational cases can make the learning and teaching process more tangible and contribute to the development of critical thinking. The chapter specifically supports the view that there are aspects of organisational behaviour that are visible in both everyday life of individuals and groups. If lecturers could bring this up in the delivery of the OB curriculum, the learners, who are future managers and supervisors, could connect the learning experiences to reality, which could lead them to a better academic understanding and later effective practitioners.

Employing Educational Robotics for the Development of Problem-Based Learning Skills

2018 ◽  
pp. 2492-2502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikleia Eteokleous
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Cognitive Learning ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Educational Robotics ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
Study Approach

Robotics activities are related to addressing a problem, and usually problems in authentic, real situations. The students are given a driving question and are requested to solve a “problem”. Having noticed this connection, the current study evaluates the integration of robotics as a tool where the problem based learning (PBL) method and the interdisciplinary approach are intertwined. Specifically, the pre-programmable floor robots, the BeeBots, were used as cognitive-learning tools in order to examine students' development of problem based learning skills: creativity-innovation, critical thinking, and collaboration. A case study approach was employed, collecting quantitative (pre- and post-questionnaires) and qualitative data (focus groups). The results revealed positive student experiences and reactions, and enhancement of the critical thinking and creativity-innovation skills.

Media Literacy Among Ex-Untouchables in a Networked Society

2022 ◽  
pp. 228-246
Author(s):  
Ali Saha
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Caste System ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Networked Society ◽  
Communicative Abilities

The caste system, which prescribed punishments for Dalits, is slowly eroding, but the atrocities against Dalits continue on a scale that makes Dalit travails seem extreme. Previous scholars have argued such oppression because of the lack of proper representation of Dalit atrocities in the mainstream media and space for Dalits to voice their concerns. In a networked society, Dalits are creating identities on online spaces. This chapter, hence, discusses Dalit empowerment from the lens of media literacy through a case study approach. Three case studies have been analysed and conceptualised along the lines of media literacy and networked society. Overall, this study reflects that media literacy assists streamlined development of the culture and ideologies with media, creative and communicative abilities, and critical thinking. Considering the absence of regulations or policies to ‘media educate' the school students, especially the minorities, this research creates an awareness and helps in policy establishment aimed towards implementing media literacy education curricula.

scholarly journals Academic English Teaching for Postgraduates Based on Self-regulated Learning Environment: A Case Study of Academic Reading Course

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Academic English ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Academic Reading ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulated Learning

<p>This study selects postgraduate students in the first grade as the participants, based on their needs analysis, classroom presentations and performance of assignments completion, through the methodology of case study, the results show that students at the university level even the graduate levels still struggle with academic English. Thus, this study focuses on foreign language teachers how to guide postgraduate students in academic reading course, so as to implement students’ self-regulated learning strategies and enhance their motivations, as well as how the students to adjust to experience and respond to the teaching process through the adjustment. Accordingly, we theoretically construct self-regulated teaching and learning environment, expectations for enlightenment to the teaching practices of academic English instructions, especially in reading academic journal articles in English. The future direction should be towards to assessing and applying the learning environment model.</p>

scholarly journals Development of Critical Thinking Transfer Practice Construct and Sub-Constructs: A 9-steps Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Noor Azura Mat Said ◽  
◽  
Siti Mariam Bujang ◽  
Nor Aishah Buang ◽  
Mohd Nasri Awang Besar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Kappa Value ◽  
Medical Undergraduates ◽  
General Studies ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Prior Relationship ◽  
Initial Framework

The study aimed to develop critical thinking transfer practice (CTTP) construct and sub-constructs relevant to medical undergraduates. The study used a 9-step qualitative case study approach. The prior relationship of construct and sub-constructs were conceptualised to produce the initial thematic framework (Step 1 to 3). Then, a qualitative study confirmed the sub-constructs that were relevant for the undergraduates, as the new data were fitted into the initial framework to become an evolving framework (Step 4 to 5). Next, the construct and sub-constructs were defined operationally (Step 6) and evaluated (Step 7). After that, the evolving framework was revised (Step 8) and developed to become the final construct and sub-constructs (Step 9). Based on the literature, the study conceptualised an initial framework that described the theoretical relationship of the prior construct and six sub-constructs. From the qualitative findings, 37 codes were fitted into the initial framework. The fitting resulted in an evolving framework that contained a theme (the medical undergraduates’ CTTP), 6 categories and 26 sub-categories. A 100% of participants agreed that the data were generated from them. Then, the team members and the expert panels accepted the theme (Cohen Kappa value > 0.80). The maintained and revised theme, categories and sub-categories were used to develop the CTTP construct and 6 sub-constructs. The study discussed in detail the included subconstructs for CTTP. The study also addressed the similarities and differences of the construct and sub-constructs for medical education and general studies. The study concluded that the construct and sub-constructs were theoretically proven to represent the medical undergraduates’ CTTP.

scholarly journals Strategi Pendidikan dalam Menumbuhkan Kemampuan Berfikir Kritis Anak Usia Dini di Masa Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Imam Syafi’i ◽  
Azimatul Chusnah ◽  
Nur Alvi Inayati ◽  
Linda Puspita Sari
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Early Childhood Educator ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
At Home

This study aims to describe and understand the strategy of educators in carrying out their duties during the COVID-19 pandemic in fostering critical thinking skills in early childhood. This research method uses qualitative research with a case study approach. Data collection techniques in this study using observation, interviews, and documentation. While the data analysis used the Miles and Huberman model with the stages of data reduction, data presentation, verification, and conclusion drawing. The results of this study indicate that, first, there is a change in the strategy for implementing the duties of teachers/educators, namely as planners and assessors of children's learning outcomes. While the task as implementers in early childhood educator learning in collaboration with teachers / educators at home, namely the child's parents. Second, the strategy of teachers/educators at home to cultivate children's critical thinking skills is to invite children to understand the reasons for schooling at home, the reasons for the obligation to use masks when leaving the house and others by using discussion and exemplary methods.

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