scholarly journals The Use of Peer Instruction and Flipped Learning to Support Flexible Blended Learning During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrissi Nerantzi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Peer Instruction ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Flipped Learning ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
High Importance ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Context Of Learning ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

This article provides an overview of peer instruction and flipped learning, two active learning approaches, in the context of learning and teaching in higher education and illustrates their relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Peer instruction and flipped learning should be considered when designing for flexible learning. These approaches can stimulate learning and create seamless active engagement in fully online and blended settings even when switching between these modes becomes necessary due to developments in this pandemic. This transitioning between fully online and blended, as and when required, is something that is of high importance during these challenging times, especially for campus-based universities as they are keen to secure the smooth running of their programmes under difficult circumstances. This article provides practical advice for course designers, module and programme leaders on how they can utilise peer instruction or flipped learning to maximise student engagement and learning.

scholarly journals An agile approach to co-creation of the curriculum

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
John Owen ◽  
Catherine Wasiuk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Agile Approach ◽  
Context Of Learning ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

The importance of developing meaningful student engagement through partnerships is an increasing area of interest and practice within the context of learning and teaching in higher education. This case study reports on an approach used in a co-created curriculum project that aligned the values and principles of student-staff partnerships with those of an agile framework. Through an analysis of the individual team reflections captured during and after the project, the study explores how the agile approach could help address imbalances of power between students and staff in higher education. The results of the study show that team members found that working in this new way increased confidence in co-creating teaching and learning with staff and fostered a positive team relationship, although some reflections indicate that assumptions of power are deeply embedded within the structures and roles of higher education. However, our findings suggest that this way of working can result in positive experiences for students and staff and could be applied to a wide range of student-staff partnership projects.

scholarly journals Sharing quality resources for teaching and learning: A peer review model for the ALTC Exchange in Australia

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraldine Lefoe ◽  
Robyn Philip ◽  
Meg O'Reilly ◽  
Dominique Parrish
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Work Spaces ◽  
Review Model ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

<span>The ALTC Exchange (formerly the Carrick Exchange), is a national repository and networking service for Australian higher education. The Exchange was designed to provide access to a repository of shared learning and teaching resources, work spaces for team members engaged in collaborative projects, and communication and networking services. The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) established the Exchange for those who teach, manage and lead learning and teaching in higher education. As part of the research conducted to inform the development of the Exchange, models for peer review of educational resources were evaluated. For this, a design based research approach was adopted. Findings from the literature and feedback from key practitioners and leaders within the sector are discussed in this paper. Finally, key recommendations for implementation are identified.</span>

scholarly journals Adding to the mix: Students use of Facebook groups and blackboard discussion forums in higher education

2016 ◽  
pp. 444-463
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Discussion Forum ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Sustained Activity ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
Unit Design ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

This paper reports on a case study of the use of Facebook in learning and teaching in higher education. Facebook was used as a venue for online discussion to support the existing Learning Management System (in this case Blackboard) in the unit Internet Collaboration and Organisation as part of the Internet Communications degree taught fully online through Open Universities Australia (OUA). Students’ posts to both Facebook and the Blackboard discussion forum were analysed for content, length, and when throughout the study period they were posted. This is significant as much of the previous work in this area has relied on students self-reporting, rather than direct observation of student behaviour. These results were then compared to earlier instances of the same unit that ran within the previous twelve months, one fully online with OUA only using the Blackboard discussion group, and a second taught at Curtin University with both blended learning for students at the University’s Bentley campus as well as fully online for external students, that utilised both Blackboard and Facebook. The results show that Facebook greatly increases the level of student activity in online discussions, both absolutely and in the level of sustained activity across the unit’s study period. Facebook groups also had a different pattern of content from Blackboard. In Blackboard discussion is more focused on the set unit learning content, in Facebook students were using the groups to discuss administration and assignments and also bring in additional material from outside the units set learning materials. Facebook posts, while more sustained over the semester, were shorter in length. This study found that the addition of a Facebook discussion forum does not noticeably impact on the use of Blackboard’s discussion forum, but rather adds a new dimension to the mix of online interaction. The paper concludes that there is value in using both of these forums for student interaction, but unit design needs to take into account the different affordances of each to maximise their utility.

scholarly journals Enhancing Students’ Assessment Feedback Skills Within Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Evans ◽  
Michael Waring
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Assessment Feedback ◽  
High Level ◽  
Coming To Know

In higher education (HE) considerable attention is focused on the skills sets students need to meet the requirements of the fourth industrial revolution. The acquisition of high-level assessment feedback skills is fundamental to lifelong learning. HE has made significant investment in developing assessment feedback practices over the last 30 years; however, far less attention has been given to the development of inclusive agentic integrated assessment systems that promote student agency and autonomy in assessment feedback, and from an individual differences perspective. “Inside the Black Box,” a seminal work, opened the potential of assessment as a supportive process in facilitating students in coming to know (understanding the requirements of a task and context, and their own learning) through the development of formative assessment. However, overall, the assessment for learning movement has not changed students’ perceptions, on entering HE, that feedback is something they receive rather than something they can generate and orchestrate despite being predicated on a self-regulatory approach. HE promotes students’ use of self-regulated learning approaches although these are not sufficiently integrated into curriculum systems. In moving forward assessment feedback, it is important to adopt a theoretically integrated approach that draws on self-regulatory frameworks, agentic engagement concepts, understanding of individual differences, and the situated nature of assessment. Current emphases in HE focus on how we engage students as active participants in assessment, in coming to know assessment requirements as part of sustainable practices with students as co-constructors of assessment inputs and outputs. Assessment design should be challenging students to maximize their selective and appropriate use of assessment feedback skills for both immediate and longer-term learning gains. Addressing the professional development of lecturers and students in the acquisition and development of essential fourth industrial age assessment feedback competencies is fundamental to enhancing the quality of learning and teaching in HE.

Opportunities and Challenges of Adopting Artificial Intelligence for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Aniekan Essien ◽  
Godwin Chukwukelu ◽  
Victor Essien
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

This chapter provides a sense of what artificial intelligence is, its benefits, and integration to higher education. Seeing through the lens of the literature, this chapter will also explore the emergence of artificial intelligence and its attendant use for learning and teaching in higher education institutions. It begins with an overview of artificial intelligence and proceeds to discuss practical applications of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence on the manner in which students learn as well as how higher education institutions teach and develop. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the challenges of artificial intelligence on higher education.

scholarly journals Experiences and perspectives of Technology-enhanced learning and teaching in higher education – Serbian case

2018 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 1351-1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirjana Ivanović ◽  
Aleksandra Klašnja Milićević ◽  
Veljko Aleksić ◽  
Brankica Bratić ◽  
Milinko Mandić
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education ◽  
Enhanced Learning
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