scholarly journals Scaling Up Blended Learning on Innovation and Entrepreneurship: a Proposal to Increase Value in a Semi Presential Module

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvaro Pina Stranger ◽  
German Varas ◽  
Gaëlle Mobuchon
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Disciplinary Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Representations ◽  
Know How ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Education on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) has increased in the last two decades, specially, through MOOCs. Lately, these reusable online alternatives have tended to be revalorized by HEIs into blended learning activities, posing new challenges for instructors, specially, on how to bridge prior knowledge with in-class activities. Adopting a discursive approach to knowledge, our proposal aims to meet this challenge by identifying student’s ‘representations’, i.e., patterned constructions on disciplinary knowledge. Representations can be found across different cohorts and thus further complemented by instructors. To test this assumption and build our proposal, we analysed student’s representations in two observations. We mapped students’ representations over key I&E definitions (e.g., ‘start-up’) and, to know how prior knowledge may be complemented by instructors, we identified students’ alignment with expert disciplinary knowledge. Firstly, we found that the two cohorts tended to express representations by turning attention to several dimensions, e.g., referring to different types of features or finalities associated with concepts. Secondly, the disciplinary alignment description revealed that students tended to focus on the same components present in experts’ definitions, but with a greater level of generality. Our results have been packaged into a proposal that aims to help instructors scale their blended activities.

scholarly journals Strategies for Pan-European Implementation of Blended Learning for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galena Pisoni
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

New information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide educators and learners with novel approaches to enhance teaching and learning processes. Technology enabled learning plays a vital role in contemporary education and blended learning is widely adopted across higher education as a learning mode. In this paper we reflect on the strategies for introducing blended learning in a network of European universities and the first lessons learnt from the experience. A total of 18 universities took part with around 350 students registered in the 2018–2019 academic year. In this report we recount how the lecturers in our network introduced the blended learning in their classes, the different types of lessons resulting from this effort, as well as the teachers’ and students’ perceptions regarding the blended learning activities performed. Our reflection is focused on the use of blended learning and its positive effect on activating students and development of innovation and entrepreneurship soft skills. The perceptions on blended learning are interrelated, with the success of the blending models depending on the blended learning activities, and how well the respective online contents are embedded into the teaching and learning processes.

Reimagining American education: Possible futures: A curriculum that promotes civic ends and meets developmental needs

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-57
Author(s):  
Carol D. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Human Learning ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
American Education ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future

If schools are to prepare students to participate more productively in civic life, schools will need to ensure that they have opportunities to practice the skills of civic reasoning, argues Carol Lee. Yet schools are challenged by the limits in the curriculum and the difficulty of addressing the different types of prior knowledge that students bring to the classroom. Lee suggests that when schools build their content and pedagogy on current understandings of human learning, they will be better able to enable students from all backgrounds to practice building the understandings they need, now and in the future.

Husk Power Systems: Scaling Up a Start-Up

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul O. Chao ◽  
Rebecca Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Start Up

Pakwheels.com—The Next Challenge!

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-159
Author(s):  
Farrah Arif ◽  
Sarah Suneel Sarfraz
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Model Identification ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Car Market ◽  
Retail Channel ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Potential Sources ◽  
Used Car ◽  
Trade Channel

This case features the challenges of a start-up website in the used car market in 2015 as its founding partners assess potential sources of profitable growth and ways to maintain their competitive advantage. Founded in Pakistan, PakWheels.com was a vertically classified automotive portal. The case goes on to illustrate how PakWheels.com successfully revolutionized the used-car trade channel by bridging the gap between the traditional retail channel of car dealers and buyers. Key discussion points of the case revolve around the turning point of PakWheels business, namely retention of users while sustaining the current business model, identification of key strategies for scaling up and monetization, and response to competitive threats to safeguard its market position. Through assessing these options and discussing this case, students will learn about strategic problems faced by online portals as well as how these unique businesses create value for end users.

scholarly journals Designing Rich Interactive Content for Blended Learning: A Case Study from Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Didik Dwi Prasetya ◽  
Aji Prasetya Wibawa ◽  
Tsukasa Hirashima ◽  
Yusuke Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Digital Publishing ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Asynchronous Learning ◽  
State University ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Instructional Content ◽  
Digital Book

Blended learning is a hybrid of traditional face‑to‑face and different types of online learning services. Blended learning offers synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences that combine the conveniences of online courses while maintaining in‑person contact. Blended learning addresses the needs of students who are unable to attend classes entirely, but who nonetheless demand opportunities for personal interaction. The appropriate instructional content design becomes one of the crucial components to support the success of blended learning activities. This study proposed the development and practical use of document‑based rich and interactive content in EPUB3 to provide an exciting instructional content model. EPUB3 is a digital publishing standard with prosperous features and flexible implementation that is widely accepted in academic and industry. The EPUB3 digital book content was integrated into a Moodle learning management system to support synchronous and asynchronous blended learning environments. A questionnaire was applied to find out the learners' responses and involved 155 undergraduate students at The State University of Malang, Indonesia. The questionnaire results showed the developed content model was feasible and suitable to be implemented in a blended learning environment. Students seem interested and enthusiastic about being involved in various learning activities that add new experiences.

scholarly journals Mobile Blended Learning with eSquirrel

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (4Β) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Maurer
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Innovative Solution

This article outlines the state of the art of mobile blended learning apps. It describes recent progress in this area, and explains the potential of mobile blended learning for schools and educational institutions. Furthermore, it presents an innovative solution, eSquirrel, which is developed by an Austrian inter-disciplinary start-up. eSquirrel is a blended learning platform that combines mobile learning with gamification. It blends the concepts of classroom teaching, eLearning and learning from books into a native Android and iOS course app, and enables teachers to learn their students’ progress.

scholarly journals PENGEMBANGAN BUKU PENGAYAAN BERGAMBAR KETERAMPILAN MENULIS (MERINGKAS) UNTUK SISWA KELAS VII SE-KECAMATAN PEMALANG

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-43
Author(s):  
Isya Dina Kamalia
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
School Students ◽  
Know How ◽  
True Story ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Right

Abstrak: Siswa kelas VII SMP idelanya sudah bisa menghasilkan ringkasan cerita yang baik. Akan tetapi sebagaian besar siswa kelas VII SMP di Kecamatan Pemalang masih kesulitan dan tidak tahu cara meringkas cerita yang benar. Selain buku paket dan LKS, sekolah belum menyediakan buku lain untuk mendukung kegiatan belajar siswa dalam memahami pembelajaran meringkas cerita. Penyebab siswa belum tahu tentang cara meringkas yang benar adalah karena buku yang memuat tentang cara meringkas cerita belum ada. masalah tersebut berpengaruh terhadap keterampilan menulis siswa dalam mengembangkan ringkasan yang baik. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah (1) menganalisis kebutuhan guru dan siswa terhadap buku pengayaan keterampilan menulis (meringkas) bergambar, (2) menyusun prototipe buku pengayaan keterampilan menulis (meringkas) bergambar, (3) mendeskripsikan hasil uji validasi ahli pengembangan buku pengayaan keterampilan menulis (meringkas) bergambar. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan Research and Development (R&D).Hasil penelitian ini berupa buku pengayaan bergambar keterampilan menulis (meringkas) yang berjudul Wasis Ngringkes Crita. Kata kunci: buku pengayaan, keterampilan meringkas Abstract: The seventh grade junior high school students have been able to produce a good summary of the story. But most of the VII grade students of SMP in Pemalang Subdistrict are still having difficulties and do not know how to summarize the true story. In addition to textbooks and LKS, schools have not provided other books to support student learning activities in understanding learning to summarize stories. The reason for students not knowing about how to summarize the right one is because the book that contains how to summarize the story does not yet exist. the problem affects students' writing skills in developing good summaries. The objectives of this study are (1) to analyze the needs of teachers and students for illustrative illustrative writing enrichment books, (2) to compile prototypes of enrichment writing (summarizing) illustrative books, (3) to describe the results of expert validation test writing skills enrichment books ( summarize) pictorial. This research uses a Research and Development (R & D) approach. The results of this study are in the form of a book enriching writing skills (summarizing) pictorial entitled Wasis Ngringkes Crita. Keywords: enrichment books, summarizing skills  

scholarly journals Exploring a Rural English Teacher’s Lived Experiences of Assessment Practices in a Blended Learning Enactment: A Narrative Inquiry

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Haris Sugianto
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Alternative Assessment ◽  
Portfolio Assessment ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Shed Light

Although a large number of studies have put a focus on the enactment of blended learning in English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom, there is a paucity of research into the teacher’s lived experiences of how they enact assessment in the blended learning activities. To fill such a gap, this paper reports on a narrative inquiry of an EFL teacher’s lived experiences of conducting assessment during blended learning in the pandemic era. The finding of the study shed light on the ineffectiveness of the assessment practice during the blended learning enactment, particularly in the context of rural schools. Albeit the participating teacher in this study was fully engaged to conduct assessment from his past experiences, two major problems hinder such a practice: students’ unsubmitted assignments and poor Internet connection. Based on these findings, teachers are encouraged to find an alternative assessment practice during the blended learning, portfolio assessment can be an option. This suggestion is anchored by the fact that the assessment practice was not technically supported during the blended learning activities.

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