scholarly journals An Evolving Teaching Methodology: An Integrated Approach To Teaching Multi-Disciplinary Classes

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Craig Baird ◽  
Kerry Pedigo
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Business School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
First Year ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Central Case ◽  
Approach To Teaching

This paper discusses an approach to teaching and learning in multi-disciplinary university settings using case study based scenarios presented using films as a key teaching methodology. The production of four films (The Video store, Perception Airlines, Tranquil Whispers, and Middleton) over an eight year period was an iterative process through which the use of film-based case study scenarios was refined as a teaching tool to integrate student learning across multiple disciplines in a business school. Each of the four films was designed to enhance first year university students understanding of theories and practices used in a range of discipline areas that underpin the operations of a commercial business undertaking. The final film mainly discussed here depicts a central case study scenario, entitled Middleton featuring a cast of teaching and academic staff from the Curtin Business School (CBS) in Perth, Western Australia and Curtin Sarawak, Malaysia(Curtin University of Technology). It was produced as a core teaching approach for exploring themes as part of the delivery of several first year units within the CBS, delivered over twelve campuses in Western Australia and South East Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka). Students in their first year of a commerce degree study compulsory business units that are disparate in their content and delivery. This diversity can cause some students to have difficulty with defining meaningful cohesiveness between units in their first year of study. Middleton sought to integrate the first year subjects into a film depicting a central case study of an international business operation.

scholarly journals An integrated approach to teaching and learning logistics: A case study

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacobus N. Cronjé
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Approach To Teaching

Business managers and students often criticise university teaching for not addressing real-life problems. Furthermore, professors are dissatisfied with the research capabilities of postgraduate students. This paper advocates an integrated approach to teaching and learning based on the features of project-based learning aimed at enhancing the practical and research skills of undergraduate students in Logistics. A case study is presented where third-year students were engaged in a real-life project in collaboration with industry, exposing them to collaborative learning, questionnaire design, surveys, analysing and evaluating results, literature review and report writing. The project was carried out in phases where students were assessed after each phase. The paper analyses the assessment of students and their perception of the value of the project. It is concluded that an integrated teaching and learning approach will increase students’ interest in the subject, understanding of theoretical concepts, research skills, business skills and life skills.

scholarly journals Contextually responsive and knowledge-focused teaching: disrupting the notion of ‘best practices’

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SI) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ceclia Jacobs ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Good Teaching ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Higher Education Teaching

The notion that universal ‘best practices’ underpin higher education teaching is problematic. Although there is general agreement in the literature that good teaching is not decontextualised but rather that it is responsive to the context in which it occurs, generic views of teaching and learning continue to inform practices at universities in South Africa. This conceptual paper considers why a decontextualised approach to higher education teaching prevails and interrogates factors influencing this view, such as: the knowledge bases informing this approach to teaching, the factors from within the higher education sector that shape this approach to teaching, as well as the practices and Discourses prevalent in the field of academic development. The paper argues that teaching needs to be both contextually responsive and knowledge- focused. Disrupting ‘best practices’ approaches require new ways of undertaking academic staff development, which are incumbent on the understandings that academic developers bring to the enterprise.

MOOC and Blended Learning Models

2018 ◽  
pp. 276-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Torres-Coronas ◽  
María-Arántzazu Vidal-Blasco
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Current Experience

Interest is growing in educational designs that blend MOOCs with on-campus teaching and researchers are seeking to incorporate the spirit of a MOOC into a hybrid model. This article reports on the current experience of a higher education institution embarking on blended learning models. The aim of this article is to present a case study and to discuss the strategic approach to integrating a MOOC at undergraduate level. The evaluation strategy of this experience uses surveys and focus groups to interpret the results and the perspective of the various stakeholders. The analysis synthesizes the opinion of the main stakeholders – the institution, the students and the academic staff – and shows that in addition to improving the financial viability of MOOCs, blended learning models improve the quality of students' education, strengthen students' academic performance, and encourage academic staff to constantly innovate their teaching and learning process.

What Are the Foundations of an Integrated Approach to Teaching and Learning?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Shawna Longo
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Teacher Collaboration ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Content Areas ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Approach To Teaching

This chapter lays the foundation for an authentic integrated approach to learning. Music technology is a key component in most approaches that integrate STEM with Music. The connecting of multiple content areas through the arts, or music, can be used to increase teacher collaboration. The key areas of arts integration, STEM, STEAM, and how these can effectively and authentically exist together in the classroom to increase student engagement and connections to the content areas and concepts, are defined through a research-based and pragmatic approach. By incorporating the fundamental definitions and understandings posited by this chapter into one’s teaching students will be given opportunities to connect STEM concepts to the artistic processes.

Redesigning the Model: A Successfully Integrated Approach To Teaching and Learning

1996 ◽  
Vol 80 (577) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Dennis M. McFaden ◽  
Barbara A. Nelson ◽  
Chip M. Randall
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Approach To Teaching

scholarly journals Learning subversion in the business school: An ‘improbable’ encounter

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain P Bureau ◽  
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
The Status ◽  
European Business

Entrepreneurs develop activities that aim to challenge the status quo, break rules and subvert systems. How can such a thing be taught/learnt in a business school? This article contributes to current debates within entrepreneurship studies that seek to address the subversive nature of entrepreneurial activity. It presents an ethnographic case study of an entrepreneurship course that attempts to re-define the teaching and learning boundaries of subversive activities in a leading European business school. Drawing on the theory of Bakhtin, which has thus far been overlooked in entrepreneurship studies, we unpick the potentiality of art practices in the learning and experiencing of the subversive dimension of entrepreneurship. We employ the concept of ‘dialogical pedagogy’ in order to address calls for more ‘relationally experienced’ approaches to management learning that foreground the conflicts, emotional strains and uncertainties that are embedded in the fabric of entrepreneurial practice. We show how ‘subversive dialogues’ are enacted between students and teachers as they engage in the learning process, and we discuss implications for critical entrepreneurship teaching in an increasingly commoditized education environment.

scholarly journals R-D-L me this: A simple semi-directed learning approach to teaching first year physics students.

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew John Mears
Keyword(s):  
Academic Staff ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Physics Students ◽  
Physics Courses ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Improving Student Learning ◽  
Positive Effect

Students often enter physics courses at higher education with a background experience of “spoon fed” learning yet academic staff expect students to engage in self-directed learning. The Revise, Do, Learn method presented here provides a first intermediary step between “spoon fed” and independent learning. A small to moderate positive effect (d = 0.38) was found between subsequent cohorts that, when considered with the minimal time and effort required to implement the method, provides an easy win for improving student learning.

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