scholarly journals Parties or Problem Sets: Review Article on How College Works and Paying for the Party

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-147
Author(s):  
William R. Johnson

The potential of Internet-enabled distance learning to transform higher education focuses attention on exactly what residential higher-education institutions do for and to their students. Two recent books marshal detailed quantitative and subjective data on individual student outcomes to document the effects of two institutions and how these outcomes might be improved. Paying for the Party concludes that a Midwestern state university reinforces existing economic inequalities rather than fostering upward mobility. How College Works finds that a northeastern liberal-arts college generally serves its students well and suggests low-cost improvements. These claims are evaluated. (JEL D63, I23, I24)

EAD em FOCO ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Germana Costa Paixão ◽  
Ana Ciléia Pinto Teixeira Henriques ◽  
Francisco Fábio Castelo Branco ◽  
Eloisa Maia Vidal

As práticas de formação que incentivam o desenvolvimento das habilidades afetivas em estudantes têm sido avaliadas no contexto de ensino a distância no Brasil. O estudo tem como objetivo apresentar práticas formativas e relacionais desenvolvidas no curso de Ciências Biológicas na modalidade a distância de uma universidade estadual no Ceará. É um estudo descritivo-reflexivo em forma de estudo de caso que discute experiências em andamento, sendo estas: Monitoria Acadêmica; Vida em Foco; Ciência na Escola e Musicalizando a Biologia. As atividades têm procurado desenvolver nos alunos o espírito de colaboração e da experiência de realidade em que, em um curto espaço de tempo, estarão inseridos. Acredita-se que, dessa forma, se permite um ensino mais crítico e reflexivo, no qual novas ferramentas são oportunizadas e que podem romper a hierarquia ainda persistente entre professores e alunos. Palavras-chave: Ensino; Atitude; Educação a distância; Educação superior; Tecnologia da educação.Beyond the Distance Education: Formation and Relational Practice in a Biological Sciences CourseAbstract Training practices that encourage the development of affective skills in students have been valued in the context of distance learning (DL) in Brazil. The study aims to provide formative and relational practices developed in the course of Biological Sciences in the distance mode of a state university in Ceara. It is descriptive-reflective research in the form of case study that discusses the following ongoing experiments: Academic Monitoring; Life in Focus; Science in School and Musicalizing Biology. The activities have sought to develop in students the spirit of collaboration and the experience of reality in which they, in a short time, will be placed. It is believed that  this way allows more critical and reflective teaching, in which new tools become available for DL that will break the persistent hierarchy between teachers and students.Keywords: Teaching; Attitude; Distance education; Higher education; Education technology.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylie Quave ◽  
Shannon Fie ◽  
AmySue Qing Qing Greiff ◽  
Drew Alis Agnew

Teaching introductory archaeology courses in US higher education typically falls short in two important ways: the courses do not represent the full picture of who contributes to reconstructing the past and do not portray the contemporary and future relevance of the archaeological past. In this paper, we use anti-colonial and decolonial theories to explain the urgency of revising the introductory archaeology curriculum for promoting equity in the discipline and beyond. We detail the pedagogical theories we employed in revising an introductory archaeology course at a small liberal arts college in the US and the specific changes we made to course structure, content, and teaching strategies. To examine the impacts on enrolled students and on who chose to enroll in the revised archaeology curriculum, we analyze student reflection essays and enrollment demographics. We find that students developed more complex understandings of the benefits and harms of archaeological knowledge production and could articulate how to address archaeology’s inequities. We also found that enrollment in archaeology courses at the college shifted to include greater proportions of students of color. These results support the notion that introductory archaeology courses should be substantially and continually revised.


2011 ◽  
pp. 2163-2180
Author(s):  
Gilly Salmon

There are few published reports of structured approaches to developing lecturers for new online roles. However, both campus and distance learning institutions can offer some experiences in developing lecturing staff to moderate and teach with low cost text-based online conferencing. This role is known as e-moderating. Staff development is often asserted as a key issue in the success of everything from a project, a course or a whole institution to an online environment. The current climate asserts the importance both for university and college lecturers of adopting a good practice and an understanding of teaching in addition to academic competence. This chapter considers and explores the knowledge and skills that the best e-moderators have and how they can be recruited, trained and developed.


1977 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Scott ◽  
Ann Richards ◽  
Marie Wade

Students' attitudes toward women and changes in those attitudes after taking a women's studies course were studied. The Spence Attitude Toward Women Scale was administered to 354 undergraduate students at two mid-western institutions. Matched pre- and posttests were obtained for 176 students. Results showed that attitudes toward women became more liberal after taking a women's studies course ( p < .001); also that attitudes were initially more liberal at an affluent liberal arts college than at a regional campus of a state university ( p < .001).


Author(s):  
Z. Goncharova

In the XXI century distance learning has become one of the most popular educational formats in higher education. The main driver of distance learning is the new needs of the labor market, requiring employees who are ready to adapt to changing conditions of the market and are included in the process of continuous self-improvement. Until now, the major part of the achievements of distance learning lay in the field of the humanities or special technical disciplines and was almost not integrated into the teaching of Mathematics in universities. We have developed and implemented a model of distance learning, adapted to the existing conditions for the teaching of mathematical disciplines in universities. The model, which was empirically tested during experiments conducted in the period from 2004 to 2018 at Southwestern State University and the Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, demonstrated its effectiveness.


Author(s):  
John W. Fadden

This essay looks at the place of biblical studies as a secular field of the humanities in an undergraduate liberal arts college in the neoliberal age. First, the article reviews the idea of neoliberalism as a governing rationality. Next, the article assesses how neoliberalism transforms the notion of higher education and the humanities, reducing it to economic terms for administrators, faculty, and students. The article also attends to neoliberalism’s effect on gendered experiences in higher education. Under this rationality, few justifications are available for biblical studies beyond economic reasons. Lastly, the article places (feminist) biblical studies in conversation with other fields challenging neoliberal rationality for justifying the continued existence of the humanities. It examine what (feminist) biblical studies may contribute to an intersectional humanities project for the liberal arts college as an alternative to the neoliberal vision of higher education.


Author(s):  
Yuliia Khrystova

The article examines the experience of implementing quest technologies in the process of training future professionals at the Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs. According to the results of the analysis of scientific and reference literature to define the concept and essence of the game, it is stated that scientists recognize its high effectiveness for adult learning compared to traditional pedagogical methods, emphasizing its significant advantages. It is emphasized that answering the questions and completing the tasks of the quest as part of the team, the cadets not only learn but also teach each other, exchange experience and knowledge, acquire "soft skills". It is stated that web-quests can be effectively used in extracurricular work of higher education students in order to increase the productivity of their independent work, the development of logical and creative thinking, stimulating cognitive motivation during distance learning. It is emphasized that in the conditions of distance learning quests in the form of a professional computer game deserve special attention, the software of which will provide an opportunity to assess the correctness of the decisions of each of its participants during the tasks. It is emphasized that the use of the educational-interactive complex "Line-102" creates unique conditions for the development of creative potential of cadets and at the applied level onnects the educational process with the practical component of the future profession. It is emphasized that conducting practical classes in the form of a quest using the opportunities of training grounds of the university gives higher education students the opportunity to approach the realities of practice, demonstrate the level of theoretical material, identify shortcomings in the organization and conduct of activities, including in compiling operational and service and procedural documents. Emphasis is placed on the peculiarities of the methodology of conducting and evaluating practical classes in the form of a quest in the process of training future police officers at each stage, as well as semester exams, defense practice (internship), state certifications. Emphasis was placed on the positive assessment of practitioners of the National Police involved in their implementation at the Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs. In ddition, their effectiveness and expediency of further use by higher education institutions with specific training conditions that train police officers are substantiated.


Author(s):  
AHMED Al-GHANIMI , Et. al.

The worldwide incidence of COVID-19 disease has risen significantly, as COVID-19 was declared a pandemic disease by WHO on March 11, 2020. Iraq declared the emergency condition, followed by the curfew, in response to the COVID-19 crisis. As a result, after the COVID-19 pandemic, educational facilities were closed and distance learning emerged as a new educational tool to ensure the continuity of education in universities. With the emergence of the (Covid-19) epidemic in the world today, it has become difficult to collect students in one semester, so higher education in Iraq has become dependent on e learning in all its lessons. Therefore, this study was designed to know the student's outcomes after relying on e-learning and comparing it to the traditional method in education  and As well as to see the extent of students' acceptance of e-learning and whether it is considered a successful alternative to traditional education in light of COVID-19.


1988 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 335-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Addleman

116 undergraduates from a Christian liberal arts college (25 men and 91 women) and 91 undergraduates from a state university (34 men and 57 women) were given the Rokeach Value Survey. Two-sample t tests indicated that the subjects at the two schools ranked 5 of the 18 values significantly differently at p ≤ .05, 3 at p ≤ .01 level, and 4 at p ≤ .001. At the .001 level, “A Comfortable Life” and “Pleasure” were ranked significantly higher by students at the secular university, and “Salvation” and “Wisdom” were ranked significantly higher by students at the religious institution. Three explanations for these results are given.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Sarah McCorkle ◽  
Paul Whitener

This case study describes a small-scale Lightboard pilot and a full-scale Lightboard build with accompanying studio at a small, private liberal arts college in the southern United States. This article will provide an overview of the Lightboard landscape in higher education, offer considerations for the construction of a Lightboard, and share the authors’ experiences and outcomes. In writing this article, the authors’ goal is to present an attainable use case for the construction of a Lightboard by introducing a simplistic pilot design that was well received by faculty and administrators.


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