scholarly journals Planning and Implementing a Graduate Online Team-Taught Marketing Course

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-122
Author(s):  
Rajasree K. Rajamma ◽  
Michael R. Sciandra
Keyword(s):  
Team Teaching ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Potential Solution ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Team ◽  
Educational Delivery

Online courses have become an important educational delivery tool for institutions of higher learning throughout the world. While popular among students and administrators, many faculty members have expressed concerns with online courses. Therefore, this article highlights online team teaching as a potential solution to many of the concerns harbored by faculty members. In particular, we discuss the potential challenges that can be faced by an online teaching team during the various stages from conceptualization to implementation, and offer prescriptive guidelines that would help future teams in navigating those challenges. Importantly, this article explores online team teaching from the perspective of marketing faculty and outlines positive educator outcomes associated with the development of a team-taught marketing course.

scholarly journals Using Technology Tools for Formative Assessments

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Robertson ◽  
Samia Humphrey ◽  
John Steele
Keyword(s):  
Operations Management ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Formative Assessments ◽  
Evaluation Tools ◽  
Methods Courses ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning

In recent years, online teaching has become extremely popular. Most institutions of higher learning are offering online courses in almost every field of study. Teaching any course online is challenging, but teaching quantitative courses, such as operations management, management science, statistics, and others, have added a more challenging dimension to online teaching. Publishers have been assisting professors of quantitative methods courses by developing various teaching and evaluation tools. This study explores one such publisher’s tool, Quiz Me Mastery Points, of Pearson’s MyOmLab. The performance of students on their examinations and the Mastery Points they earned through the Quiz Me feature were compared, and it was determined that there was a significant correlation between the two.

scholarly journals The Shifts to Online Learning: Think Piece: Assumptions, Implications and Possibilities for Quality Education in Teacher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sirkka Tshiningayamwe ◽  
Ntha Silo ◽  
Crispen Dirwai
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Online Teaching And Learning ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Ict Infrastructure

With the advent of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which has spread to the majority of countries across the world, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. Governments all over the world, including in southern Africa, introduced measures such as the banning of large gatherings,closure of borders, schools and institutions of higher learning to curb the spread of COVID-19. To ensure ongoing teaching and learning, institutions of higher learning made resolutions to transition to remote/online teaching and learning. While online education has long preceded the pandemic, the spiraling of COVID-19 all over the world resulted in the upscaling of online teaching and learning in higher education institutions. Mandatory online teaching and learning was a relatively new practice to most lecturers and students in southern Africa. Drawing on two case stories from Botswana and Namibia, this paper offers a think piece on the shifts to online learning, considering assumptions, implications and possibilities for quality learning in teacher education, through a reflection by teacher educators of environment and sustainability courses. The assumptions in online learning were that students and teacher educators had the capacity and infrastructure for remote/online teaching and learning. This paper thus opens up opportunities for institutions of higher learning to scale up their Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and support for both students and teacher educators for online teaching and learning which have the potential to improve on quality education during times of crisis. Keywords: Online teaching and learning, ICT infrastructure, Education for SustainableDevelopment (ESD), quality education

The Role of Moral Education on the Dress Code in the Higher Learning Institution

Sains Insani ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-14
Author(s):  
Ira Meilita Ibrahim ◽  
Taufik A. Latif ◽  
Afi Roshezry Abu Bakar ◽  
Muthualagan Thangavelu
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Private University ◽  
Public University ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Dress Code ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of

The advancement of European dress to the rest of the world was linked to the definition of civilization as “a stage of social development considered to be more advanced” and “polite and good-mannered”. The widespread of their fashion style in the 19th and 20th centuries influenced the way the rest of the world attire. The fashion trend and dressing style thus change the purpose of dressing through time. The dressing style in campuses especially in private institutions of higher learning is under particular scrutiny, as it is often said to be inappropriate for a learning environment. This study looked at the importance of moral education, and its role in implementing the dress code for students among university students especially between two types of university i.e. public university and private university. It looked on the dressing style of students, both male and female, and the factors that lead to their dressing pattern which is common among students. This study also advocated the students’ understanding of the content of dress codes in their learning institution and the role played by moral education in regard to dress code. The overall study highlighted students’ perception towards the implementation of the dress code and punishment in their learning institution. The methodologies used to carry out this study are questionnaires and interviews. This study will therefore ascertain the important of dress code among students at higher learning institution and the role of moral education in cultivating values in order to dress properly or decently. Key Words: moral education, dress code, higher learning institution, civilization.

Native Approaches to Decolonising Education in Institutions of Higher Learning

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polly Walke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The World

A growing number of Native scholars are involved in decolonising higher education through a range of processes designed to create space for Indigenous realities and Indigenous ways of managing knowledge. Basing their educational approaches on Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies, they are developing Indigenist approaches within higher education. Ward Churchill (1996:509), Cherokee scholar, explains that an Indigenist scholar is one who:Takes the rights of indigenous peoples as the highest priority …who draws on the traditions – the bodies of knowledge and corresponding codes of value – evolved over many thousands of years by native peoples the world over.

scholarly journals Major barriers for participating in online teaching in developing countries from Iranian faculty members' perspectives

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bibi Eshrat Zamani ◽  
Azam Esfijani ◽  
Sayed Majid Abdellahi Damaneh
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Findings

Although higher education systems in developing countries such as Iran have embraced the online education approach, they are confronted with significant challenges in this transition, one of which is lack of instructors' participation in online teaching. Therefore, this research is aimed at exploring barriers and influential factors for this lack of participation. The researchers developed their theoretical framework based on a thorough review of the existing body of knowledge while considering the cultural features of Iran as a developing country. A tailored questionnaire asking about the existence of three groups of barriers, namely personal, attitudinal and contextual inhibitors, was distributed among all faculty members who were candidates for delivering online courses in one of the top universities in the country. Data was analysed using the descriptive and inferential tests of Friedman, <em>t</em>-Test and ANOVA. The results were in line with research findings in other developing countries in which the contextual barriers had the most inhibition effect against faculty members’ participation in online teaching. Certain cultural barriers also are highlighted by participants, pertaining to the context of Iranian online education systems.

Institutional Repositories as Impetus for Curbing Plagiarism in Nigerian Universities

2018 ◽  
pp. 205-224
Author(s):  
Doosuur Dianne Ashaver
Keyword(s):  
Higher Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Academic Plagiarism

This chapter is an exposition on the Institutional Repositories as impetus to curbing plagiarism in Nigerian universities. The chapter analyses the nature of academic plagiarism and its prevalence in institutions of higher learning in Nigeria especially among students and faculty members. The chapter also proffers strategies which universities can employ to minimise and or eventually curb plagiarism.

The Context, Design, and Impact of System-Wide Assessments to Enhance Effectiveness in the Higher Colleges of Technology of the United Arab Emirates

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Marshall “Mark” Drummond ◽  
Matthew A. Robby
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Colleges Of Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
Effective Assessment

This paper examines the use of System-wide Assessments, an innovative initiative to enhance the accountability, quality, and effectiveness within the Higher Colleges of Technology of the United Arab Emirates. The authors review the historic and contemporary influences on college/university assessments and the key forces or factors which have shaped development and need of Outcome Assessments. The paper summarizes the literature on the best practices for assessment and promoting changes. The paper describes the objectives, structures, and processes involved with random use of System-wide Assessments among the 17 Federal colleges. A survey of 80 Deans and Chairs reports the perceptions and ratings of the process and impact of System-wide assessments. The lessons learned are described and inform recommendations for key components of an effective assessment system to promote accountability and improvement in higher education. Findings have significance for leaders of institutions of higher learning throughout the Middle East and the world.

MASLOW'S HIERARCHY AND STUDENT RETENTION

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Brookman
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Hierarchy Of Needs ◽  
Mentor Program ◽  
Sense Of Purpose ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Teaching Faculty

Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs offers a perspective on the motivation of college students and provides a rationale for retention programming in institutions of higher learning. The interventions of student affairs staff and faculty members which address the safety needs of students and engage students' sense of purpose tend to reinforce persistence. The result is improved rates of retention. The possible role faculty might play in a “mentor program” is discussed as a model of cooperative endeavor between the teaching faculty and the student affairs staff.

scholarly journals FACULTY SELF-STUDY RESEARCH PROJECT: EXAMINING THE ONLINE WORKLOAD

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melody M. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Time On Task ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Faculty Workload ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Penn State ◽  
Productive Time

Concerns about faculty workload in the online environment are a reported deterrent to participation in online teaching. To date, such concerns have been based primarily on anecdotal evidence rather than empirical research. This paper describes a project in which six faculty members teaching courses through the Penn State World Campus conducted studies of the comparative workload in the online environment. Results of the studies indicated that faculty workload for teaching these online courses, as measured by time on task, was comparable to or somewhat less than that for face-to-face courses. However, a differential “chunking” of productive time contributed in some cases to a perception of increased workload. The success of the project suggests it is a replicable model for investigating various elements of the faculty experience in the online environment.

scholarly journals Audit Education as an Effective Tool for Narrowing Audit Expectation Gap: Evidence from Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Cordelia Onyinyechi Omodero ◽  
M. C. Okafor
Keyword(s):  
Chief Executive Officers ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Early Learning ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Expectation Gap ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Executive Officers ◽  
Audit Reports

This study investigates the determinants of audit expectation gap by reviewing several studies to establish its existence and the major causes of the expectation gap. In like manner, many other empirical works on the effectiveness of audit education in providing a solution to the anticipation breach issues are also examined.  The findings reveal the existence of review expectancy crack in different countries of the world.  The major causes of the breach also include performance deficiency, standard paucity, auditors’ compromise of their roles, and lack of public awareness of what the law specifies the auditors’ roles should be, among others.  In the light of the review, this study further discovers that the varying audit prospect disruption can be effectively managed by providing adequate and comprehensive audit education to various users of audit reports and the society at large.  In this study, we propose early learning of audit. An audit should be a general subject in the Universities and Institutions of higher learning.  This will help to equip future managers, managing directors, entrepreneurs, chief executive officers (C.E.O.s) of companies, investors and other stakeholders.

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