scholarly journals Building souls and CVs with a student-run podcasting course

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan Pohl ◽  
Emily Liatsis ◽  
Jessica Riddell
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Authentic Learning ◽  
Student Leaders ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
The University ◽  
Key Questions ◽  
The Ideal

This case study discusses an experiential learning course comprising a 12-episode podcast series dedicated to transformative learning in higher education. The three-credit course, which was designed by two student leaders (station managers at the university radio station) in collaboration with a faculty collaborator, was informed by the 10 design principles of authentic learning. The central premise of the podcast series hinged on two key questions: What are the ideal conditions where students build their souls as they build their CVs?; What are the conditions for transformative learning whereby students reflect on their learning experience as collaborators with their professors and with one another? The case study offers recommendations to students, faculty, and educational developers who might integrate this model into their own practices. 

scholarly journals Global U: Exploring Curricular Development and Outcomes in Three University of Utah Experiential Learning Abroad Programs

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-45
Author(s):  
Lisa H. Gren ◽  
L. Scott Benson ◽  
Caren J. Frost
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Authentic Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Short Term ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
The University

The University of Utah is a publicly funded, R1 university located in the United States, with a mission statement that includes recognition of its global role, asserting that “. . . we engage local and global communities to promote education, health, and quality of life.” As part of that engagement, the University of Utah has offered learning abroad opportunities since 1967. Approximately 1 in 10 students participates in a global learning experience, and 80% of programs are short term (defined as 10 weeks or less). The pedagogical theories that guide these short-term programs are experiential learning, authentic learning, and intentional targeted intervention. We describe three short-term learning abroad programs in public health and social work—for students at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate level—connecting the reported benefits to the pedagogical model and theories used to develop the specific curriculum for these short-term programs. Faculty use a variety of reflective tools to help students learn to function in their new setting (experiential learning); explore and meaningfully construct concepts and relationships as they address real-world problems (authentic learning); and facilitate intercultural growth (intentional targeted learning). The University of Utah has adapted a three-stage model for learning abroad that incorporates principles from these theories to drive program activities: Plan (predeparture), Learn (program participation), and Integrate (postprogram). Immediate benefits to students of participating in a global-learning experience include intercultural learning, personal, and career development. Benefits to faculty include scholarly products in the domains of education and service learning, community-engaged participation, and research.

scholarly journals It is not enough to flip your classroom. A case study in the course of Pavements in Civil Engineering

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
Yasmany García-Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Traditional Model ◽  
Group A ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Group B ◽  
The University

The flipped classroom, as an active learning model, has given remarkable results in several areas in the university teaching; however, its execution is still able to improve. This research shows the implementation and improvement of the flipped classroom model in the course of Pavements. It evaluates their influence on the students’ final grades and their learning experience. Three groups of students participated in this study, who enrolled in the course of Pavements in the Civil Engineering. Group A took the course with the traditional model, while Group B took it with a flipped classroom, and Group C experienced it with a reinforced flipped model. Groups did the course the subject in 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively. Results show that even though with the flipped classroom models, the finals grades did not increase compared to the scores of the traditional model; however, it improved their learning experience. The students were more satisfied with the method; they even asked for fewer modifications than they did in the traditional model. This research shows that adding little academic things to the course, it would greatly influence their students' opinion.

scholarly journals The Necessity of Endowing EFL Learners with the Fifth Language Skill: A Key to a Successful Learning Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-348
Author(s):  
Fatma ZAGHAR ◽  
El-Alia Wafaâ ZAGHAR
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
The Status ◽  
Cultural Component ◽  
The University

In this increasingly interconnected epoch, the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) along with culture that is considered as a fifth skill has become inevitable. Therefore, EFL teachers are impelled to introduce cultural instruction in their classes. They are then advised to combine the teaching of language skills with the foreign culture because it prepares their learners to behave successfully in intercultural encounters, gain solid cultural knowledge, overcome cultural obstacles, and promote their cultural awareness. The main questions addressed in this research focus on the inclusion of the cultural component in language subjects’ syllabuses, and the type of teaching strategies that can ameliorate the status of cultural instruction. This study points out the key importance of implementing intercultural information in EFL contexts founded on a case study undertaken at the University of Oran 2 in Algeria. This paper targeted a group of Master II students by using an array of data collection means including a questionnaire given to the learners, an interview done with the teachers, and classroom observation sessions carried out by the researchers. The major aims of this work were to verify the learners’ perceptions of cultural learning, and outfit students with core foundations of culture. The results demonstrated that the incorporated teaching techniques have enriched the students’ cultural understanding and intensified their linguistic adeptnesses. It is suggested that these teaching initiatives can aid learners be compassionate, understandable, and tolerant human beings.

scholarly journals Losing Touch? A Case Study on Students' Learning Barriers Within an Experiential-Learning-Based Course

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 53-64
Author(s):  
Nóra Fazekas ◽  
Kata Beck-Bíró
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Organisation Development ◽  
Student Teacher Relationship ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Learning Barriers ◽  
University Of Budapest ◽  
Common Vision

The research aimed to discover learning barriers that educators unconsciously raise in students of the organisation development master’s course at Corvinus University of Budapest within an experiential and transformative educational setting. The research follows the interpretive and critical traditions of organisation studies and applies the concept of responsible research and innovation (RRI) in its research design. This article aspires to present a case that can be used by management educators working with experiential pedagogical approaches in higher education. Research results displayed a lack of emotional security and a lack of common vision and understanding as the main obstacles to students’ transformative learning through the experiential learning process. Results suggest dialogical practice for building trust and understanding to eliminate alienation in student-teacher relationship and to improve learning quality. Finally, limitations and further research directions are discussed.

Visual Storytelling as Generative Strategy for Social Educators

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-35
Author(s):  
Laura Fedeli
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Visual Storytelling ◽  
The Third ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Contexts

The chapter deals with the discussion of the results of an experimentation run in two consecutive academic years within the classes of the graduate course “Instructional Technology” in the graduate course “Science of Education” at the University of Macerata, Italy. The IT course is programmed in the third year of the curriculum for “Social Educators” and the contribution reports the results of a case study related to a workshop activity in which students could find a further opportunity to identify different dimensions of relation among theoretical aspects and the potential practical/applied connotations in professional contexts. The workshop was structured as an experiential learning process in which the value of the digital storytelling as educational approach was a strategy adopted to foster the students' understanding toward the intercultural issues in terms of improvement of relationship by taking a prospective position oriented to the other.

International Service-Learning

2016 ◽  
pp. 420-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joellen E. Coryell ◽  
Trae Stewart ◽  
Zane C. Wubbena ◽  
Tereza Cristina Valverde-Poenie ◽  
B. J. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
International Service Learning ◽  
International Service ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
The University

International Service-Learning (ISL) is a structured service-learning experience in another country where students learn from interaction, cross-cultural dialogue, and reflection. This humanistic pedagogy was utilized at the University of Canterbury after earthquakes rocked Christchurch, New Zealand (NZ) in 2010 and 2011. The present comparative-case study examined United States (US), European Union (EU), and Kiwi students' transformative learning through working together in a university-based ISL course designed around re-building Christchurch. Data were analyzed through the Kiely's (2005) Transformative Service-Learning Model. The findings of this study contribute new elements to the dimension of the model and argue that the concept of global citizenship may better explain a mixed cohort of international students' service-learning experiences in a post-disaster setting. Implications to the study's findings and recommendations for future research are briefly discussed.

Enriching the intersection of service and transformative learning with Freirean ideas: The case of a critical experiential learning programme in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 579-597
Author(s):  
Rosane Dal Magro ◽  
Marlei Pozzebon ◽  
Soraia Schutel
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Management Students

In this article, we examine the value of combining transformative and service learning pedagogical practices in management education programmes to encourage management students to be more critical and reflexive regarding serious contemporary issues like social inequality and sustainability. We draw on a long-term management education experience conducted in the northeastern region of Brazil, where international students learn how to develop a real-time community-based project with local inhabitants. We argue that while service learning approaches promote pragmatic action-based principles, transformative learning acts at the epistemic level, contributing to change in values. In addition, Paulo Freire’s ideas are integrated to reinforce critical and reflexive dimensions of the learning experience. Our results offer a process-based model showing how a critical experiential learning pedagogy might lead to the development of community-based competences, which, in turn, might lead to changes in the deeply held values of the participants. Freire’s emancipatory ideas are applied not only regarding the relationship between teachers and students, but also to the distinction between Western and non-Western societies, going beyond questioning of the destructive consequences of financial capitalism to question the hegemony of one worldview over all other possible ones.

International Exchange as a Transformative Learning Experience: A Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheena Choi ◽  
Michael Slaubaugh ◽  
Ae-Sook Kim
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
International Exchange

Universities as Promoters of Intergenerational Learning: A Case Study on Public Consultation

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Malgorzata Dzimińska
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Intergenerational Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University ◽  
Global Population

Universities are challenged by the growing proportion of older people in the global population. This is forcing academic institutions to reconsider how they should respond to an ageing population with regard to their teaching methodology, research, and community engagement. Intergenerational learning is one of the strategies applied by universities to promote knowledge development by involving younger and older generations in the process so that they can purposefully learn together and learn from each other. Public consultation is an engagement promoting solutions that can offer an opportunity for experiential learning taking place among representatives of the various generational. The article analyzes a case study of public consultation as organized by the University of Łódź as part of the European CONCISE project. The presented case study is an example of how the application of the public consultation method might promote intergenerational learning.

A Case Study on Hosting an Event as an Experiential Learning Experience for Event Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weng Si Clara Lei ◽  
Cindia Ching Chi Lam ◽  
Fernando Lourenço
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Learning Experience
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