scholarly journals Integrating academic skills and employability - final

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-120
Author(s):  
Mario Menz
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Skills ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Across the world, universities are more numerous today than at any other time in history, yet at the same time there is unparalleled confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. Based on an extensive literature review, a survey of the academic landscape and discussions with academics as well as employers, this reflective piece highlights the importance of academic skills development on student’s success at university and illustrates the link between academic skills, employability and professional success.The article was prompted by the current discussion around universities’ struggle to provide students with the necessary skills to succeed after graduation. The article argues that the differentiation between academic skills on the one hand and employability skills on the other is no longer relevant or appropriate in the 21stcentury knowledge economy and invites universities to enhance their curriculum with additional, mandatory skills development modules. It provides an innovative suggestion on how to link academic skills and employability in curriculum development based on the existing academic literature around the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as well as research into employability skills.The importance of academic skills on students’ professional success can never be overstated. The article offers an innovative approach to linkingacademic skills, employability and professional success. It adds fuel to the discussion around employability from the perspective of industry practitioners.

scholarly journals Integrating Academic Skills and Employability - Revisiting the Learning Journal

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Menz Mario
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Skills ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
Business Degrees ◽  
The One ◽  
Students Success

Across the world, universities are more numerous today than at any other time in history, yet at the same time there is unparalleled confusion about their purpose and skepticism about their value. Based on an extensive literature review, a survey of the academic landscape and discussions with academics as well as employers, this reflective piece highlights the importance of academic skills development with regard to students’ success at university, and illustrates the link between academic skills, employability and professional success. The article was prompted by the current discussion around universities’ struggle to provide students with the necessary skills to succeed after graduation. The article argues that the differentiation between academic skills on the one hand and employability skills on the other is no longer relevant or appropriate in the 21st century knowledge economy, and invites universities to enhance their curricula with additional, mandatory skills development modules. It provides an innovative suggestion on how to link academic skills and employability in curriculum development, based on the existing academic literature around the scholarship of teaching and learning, as well as research into employability skills. The importance of academic skills on students’ professional success can never be overstated. The article offers an innovative approach to linking academic skills, employability and professional success. It adds fuel to the discussion around employability from the perspective of industry practitioners. While this paper has been written specifically with undergraduate business degrees in mind, the principles and practices it outlines can also be applied to other academic disciplines.

Structures and Considerations for SoTL Educational Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Friberg ◽  
Lauren Scharff
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Development ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
The World

Colleges and universities around the world share a broad focus on education. However, unique characteristics and priorities across institutions may lead to vastly different educational development opportunities for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and levels of impact for the SoTL efforts (e.g., micro, meso, macro, mega). This chapter is organized in two distinct parts. Part 1 examines five different structures typical for SoTL educational development with a focus on their organizational structure within the institution and the SoTL expertise of individuals who that lead these efforts. Strengths and limitations of each structure are presented. Part 2 provides a discussion of critical considerations that impact all SoTL educational development efforts regardless of the type of structure that exists within an institution.

scholarly journals We are Appalachian Christians: Wait, can we say that?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Melissa Comer ◽  
Kathy Brashears
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Appalachian Women ◽  
Southern Appalachian ◽  
The World ◽  
Equity Model

Considering the question: ‘can we say that we’re Southern Appalachian Christians in the world of academia?’, the authors examine the answer amid diverse people groups while reflecting on their personal cultures as Appalachian women, Appalachian storytellers, and, yes, Appalachian Christians. Acknowledging that cultural influences impact their lives in academia, they explore how faith is often perceived in higher education. Living in the Southern United States, in the heart of Appalachia, in an area readily identified as the Bible-Belt, the authors use storytelling as a vehicle for examining intolerance as well as for thinking about what it means to be tolerant. Framed within a diversity and equity model of thinking, they provide a thought-provoking probe: have we entered a world where religious intolerance, specifically that of Christian beliefs, is acceptable?   Keywords: Tolerance, Equity, Academia, Storytelling, Culture, Christians, AppalachiaHow to cite this article:Comer, M. & Brashears, K. 2020. We are Appalachian Christians: Wait, can we say that?. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. 4(2): 218-227. https://doi.org/10.36615/sotls.v4i2.126.This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

scholarly journals Reflections of Researchers Involved in the Evaluation of Pedagogical Technological Innovations in a University Setting

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-84
Author(s):  
Cindy Ives ◽  
Katherine McWhaw ◽  
Christina De Simone
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The One ◽  
University Setting ◽  
Ongoing Evaluation

It is widely assumed that developments in information and communication technologies are fundamentally transforming and improving higher education. As a part of an ongoing evaluation of technology-supported pedagogy in one university, our three-year research project was designed, on the one hand, to determine if and how selected technologies were beneficial for learning and, on the other hand, to offer professional development for faculty members. In this paper, we reflect on our participation in a pedagogy and technology (referred to as PedTech) pilot project, describe some of the relationships that developed between ourselves as researchers and evaluators and our faculty collaborators, and share what we have learned from this experience. We suggest that a scholarship of teaching approach to evaluating innovations in teaching and learning is one way to support institution-wide adoption.

scholarly journals A Reflection on a Trio of Dimensions in Flipped Classroom in Higher Education—A Literature-Based Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Hao Yang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Inner Core ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Structural Innovation

It has been a decade since flipped classroom as a structural innovation in teaching and learning is widely applied and researched in higher education across the world. This study aims to explore, based on academic literature, three core dimensions to understanding flipped classroom: pedagogies as the inner core, interpersonal relationships as the bond and complexities involved in its evaluation.

Reimagining higher education in the wake of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Zachary Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Journal Editor ◽  
The South ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
The World ◽  
Global North ◽  
North And South

In this editorial, journal editor-in-chief, Zach Simpson, introduces the peer-reviewed articles and reflections in Volume 4, Issue 2 of the SOTL in the South journal. These papers, Zach argues, each reimagine aspects of higher education: the classroom, the curriculum, the role of SOTL and so on. In addition, the editorial addresses the current (at the time of publication) coronavirus pandemic afflicting the world, arguing that COVID-19 is not only deepening inequalities between the global North and South, but also rendering SOTL ever more important.Keywords: SOTL in the South, teaching and learning, higher educaiton, special issueHow to cite this article: Simpson, S. 2020. Reimagining higher education in the wake of COVID-19. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. v. 4, n. 1, p. 1-3. April 2020. Available at: https://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=145This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Didactic Technology in Training Researchers [Tecnología didáctica en la formación de investigadores]

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Aquila Priscila Montañez Huancaya ◽  
Norma Nancy Montañez Huancaya ◽  
Rosa Guillermina Dolorier Zapata ◽  
Eusebio Arainga Blas
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
The Other ◽  
Statistical Tools ◽  
University Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

The didactic technology is a necessary hybridization for the training of researchers. On the one hand, the didactic provides the validated processes for the teaching and learning process of the research based on the presence, experience and expertise of the researcher; and on the other hand, technology provides online statistical tools, programs for the analysis of qualitative data, which are the essential elements that new researchers of science should have. This article reflects on the incorporation of didactic technology as a branch of knowledge to face scientific research, whose responsibility is the generation and application of knowledge from the university environment. It concludes in the need to train researchers capable of the domain of investigative and competent to operate in any part of the world.

scholarly journals Employability themes for economic recovery

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Kofler
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Workplace Change ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
The University ◽  
Working World

As part of the University of Greenwich SHIFT 2021 conference on teaching and learning, I led a discussion workshop called ‘Employability themes for economic recovery’ in which delegates considered economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic, the inevitable changes in working practices and, consequently, the changes’ influence upon student employability skills development. In this article, I reflect both on the current context of significant workplace change across the globe and how we as educators should respond if we are to skill students for this new working world.

Understanding How Students Learn: Preparing Students to Become Professionals

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Lizbeth Curme Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Academic Service Learning

Abstract The intent of this article is to share my research endeavors in order to raise awareness of issues relative to what and how we teach as a means to spark interest in applying the scholarship of teaching and learning to what we do as faculty in communication sciences and disorders (CSD). My own interest in teaching and learning emerged rather abruptly after I introduced academic service-learning (AS-L) into one of my graduate courses (Stevens, 2002). To better prepare students to enter our profession, I have provided them with unique learning opportunities working with various community partners including both speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and teachers who supported persons with severe communication disorders.

Psychology from Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic Perspectives

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad A-L.H. Abou-Hatab
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

This paper presents the case of psychology from a perspective not widely recognized by the West, namely, the Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic perspective. It discusses the introduction and development of psychology in this part of the world. Whenever such efforts are evaluated, six problems become apparent: (1) the one-way interaction with Western psychology; (2) the intellectual dependency; (3) the remote relationship with national heritage; (4) its irrelevance to cultural and social realities; (5) the inhibition of creativity; and (6) the loss of professional identity. Nevertheless, some major achievements are emphasized, and a four-facet look into the 21st century is proposed.

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