scholarly journals (144) ePortfolios: A Philosophy for Improving Education in Horticulture

HortScience ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1044B-1044
Author(s):  
Michael E. Reinert ◽  
Dan T. Stearns
Keyword(s):  
Career Planning ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Program Outcomes ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
The University

ePortfolios are gaining popularity in academic communities worldwide. Purposes of ePortfolios include: converting student work from paper to digital format, thereby allowing it to be centrally organized, searchable, and transportable throughout their academic lives and careers; promoting student centered learning and reflection; improving advising; and career planning and resume building. Pennsylvania State University is investing in the use of ePortfolios in course work throughout the university system. To facilitate these efforts, the university provides all students and faculty with 500 MB of hosted web space to create and share their portfolios. One of the courses using ePortfolios is Horticulture 120, Computer Applications for Landscape Contracting, in the Landscape Contracting program. Outcomes of implementing ePortfolios include increased availability of student work to potential employers, enhanced recruiting through displays of student work, and enabled reflection on completed work. Students showed improved quality in project work because their projects would be publicly available through the Internet to potential employers, faculty, family, and other students.

Creative collaboration: student creative works in the institutional repository

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Rose Sliger Krause ◽  
Andrea Langhurst Eickholt ◽  
Justin L. Otto
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Music Department ◽  
Eastern Washington ◽  
The University

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the music performance collection preserved in Eastern Washington University’s institutional repository (IR). This collection of recordings of student music performances is the result of an ongoing collaboration between the university?s library and music department, which serves to provide discoverability, preservation and access to a collection of student creative works, which had heretofore been a hidden collection. Design/methodology/approach This collection of student creative work was identified as a suitable project for the Eastern Washington University’s IR while it was still in the planning stages because it was identified as an existing need that the new IR could address. Much of the groundwork for the collaboration between the library and music department was completed prior to IR implementation. Thus, the library was ready to begin work on this collection once the IR was operational. Findings The student music performance collection has been a successful project for the IR, which benefits the music department by making student performances discoverable and accessible, and benefits the library by providing the opportunity to demonstrate that the then-new IR could support the university’s student-centered focus on teaching and learning. Originality/value While there is a growing body of literature on IRs emphasizing student work, there is little literature on music or other creative works’ collections in IRs, much less on creative works by students. This paper adds to the limited body of literature on student creative works in the IR by describing the development, implementation and lessons learned from the successful music performances collection.

TECHNOLOGY MAJORS’ METHODOLOGY EDUCATION: COMPARING APPROACHES FROM TWO COURSES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antti Rissanen ◽  
◽  
Kalle Saastamoinen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Student Evaluation ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Technology Students ◽  
Technical Students ◽  
Master Level ◽  
The University

The National Defense University (NDU) trains officers to develop their academic and professional skills. To accomplish this, the university offers two mandatory courses on methodological training for military technology students for master level education. The first course was theoretically oriented, and the second course was practically oriented. These both master-level methodology courses emphasize practice oriented mathematical skills, which officers use in their operative decision-making and statistical analysis. This study focuses on student-centered learning methodologies linked to teachers’ observations from current and previous course implementations. Results in this study described the outcome from the first run of the revised curriculum. We collected data from students’ course reports and the university’s standard student evaluation of teaching (SET). According to the SET, the course 2 which was practically oriented course, where groups worked on more significant projects gained higher value among students. In conclusion, we recommend that teachers continue using student-centered learning methodologies to technical students as much as possible. Theoretically underscored courses should also contain more practical examples. Keywords: distance education, flipped learning, learning by doing, research methodology, student-centered learning

Teaching a ‘Managing Innovation and Technology' Course

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Despo Ktoridou ◽  
Epaminondas Epaminonda
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Management Of Innovation ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Inductive Methods ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

In the last few years an increasing emphasis on developing entrepreneurship has been evident in many universities in an effort to prepare students to integrate effectively into the competitive working environment of the 21st century. A key question is how to do this. This work examines the impact of Student Centered Learning (SCL) introduced in a multidisciplinary undergraduate course of Management of Innovation and Technology at the University of Nicosia. It examines students' and lecturer experiences, benefits and challenges of implementing SCL, and gives recommendations to lecturers for designing a SCL based curriculum, incorporating inductive methods. The findings may be useful for academics who teach entrepreneurship related topics and seek ways to incorporate innovative approaches in their teaching and learning processes in order to motivate students towards the development of entrepreneurial skills and thinking.

scholarly journals Radical Togetherness: African-American Literature and Abolition Pedagogy at Parchman and Beyond

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Patrick Elliot Alexander
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Conception Of Teaching ◽  
Prison Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Educational Deprivation

This article makes the case that the student-centered learning paradigm that I have aimed to establish at Parchman/Mississippi State Penitentiary as a member of a college-in-prison program represents a prison abolition pedagogy that builds on Martin Luther King and Angela Y. Davis’s coalitional models of abolition work. Drawing from Davis’s abolition-framed conception of teaching in jails and prisons as expressed in her autobiography and her critical prison studies text Are Prisons Obsolete?, I argue that the learning environments that I create collaboratively with students at Parchman similarly respond to incarcerated students’ institution-specific concerns and African-American literary interests in ways that lessen, if only temporarily, the social isolation and educational deprivation that they routinely experience in Mississippi’s plantation-style state penitentiary. Moreover, I am interested in the far-reaching implications of what I have theorized elsewhere as “abolition pedagogy”—a way of teaching that exposes and opposes the educational deprivation, under-resourced and understaffed learning environments, and overtly militarized classrooms that precede and accompany too many incarcerations. As such, this article also focuses on my experience of teaching about imprisonment in African-American literature courses at the University of Mississippi at the same time that I have taught classes at Parchman that honor the African-American literary interests of imprisoned students there.

scholarly journals The Use of Clinical PBL in Primary Care in Undergraduate Medical Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Salata Romão ◽  
Reinaldo Bulgarelli Bestetti ◽  
Lucélio Bernardes Couto
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Knowledge Retention ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Critical Reasoning ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Effective Option ◽  
The University

Abstract: Introduction: Problem-based learning (PBL) is a collaborative student-centered learning method for small groups, based on the mobilization of previous knowledge and on critical reasoning for problem solving. Although it has been used predominantly in the classroom, when applied in clinical studies, PBL can increase the intrinsic motivation and long-term knowledge retention. In addition, Clinical PBL represents a more effective option to learn from practice considering the students’ overload in clinical clerkships in the Unified Health System (UHS). This study aimed to assess the students’ perception of a Clinical PBL model implemented in Primary Health Care (PHC) clerkships during the first four years of the Medical Course at the University of Ribeirão Preto (UNAERP) in 2017. Method: The primary outcome was assessed by the DREEM (Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure) tool, which contains 50 items distributed in five dimensions. The questionnaire was applied to 374 medical students, corresponding to 78% of the total number of medical students from the first to the fourth year. Results: For most of the evaluated items, the students’ perceptions were “positive”, including the dimensions “Perception of Teachers”, “Perception of Academic Results” and “Perception of the General Environment”. For the dimensions “Perception of Learning” and “Perception of Social Relationships” the evaluation was “more positive than negative”. The DREEM total score was 124.31, corresponding to 62.15% of the maximum score, which indicates a perception that is “more positive than negative” regarding the Clinical PBL. The internal consistency given by Cronbach’s alpha was 0.92. Conclusion: The use of Clinical PBL in PHC qualifies learning from practice, is well accepted by medical students and offers a useful option to the students’ overload in the clinical clerkship during the first four years of the Medical School.

Upaya Meningkatkan Kemampuan Metodologi Mahasiswa melalui Penerapan Pendekatan

1970 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-379
Author(s):  
Alizar Isna
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Cognitive Domain ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Learning Technique ◽  
Simple Class ◽  
Jigsaw Technique

Though lecturing (speech) method is simpler for lecturer because simple class organization and he can control entire class direction, but its weakness is he difficult to know whether students have understood his discussion or not. Student’s learning effectiveness generally limited, only a critical moment near final test. One effort to support the improvement of learning quality is applying Student Centered Learning (SCL) approach. SCL is an activity that therein student work individually and also as group to exploring problems, searching knowledge actively rather than passive knowledge receiver. Learning method based on the SCL more appropriate to be applied at learning process in university, especially at Social Research Method course (MPS). Following John W. Best, “the best way to learn research is to do it,” so research method not only concerning cognitive domain, but also affective and psychomotor. Among learning technique based on SCL are jigsaw technique, hypothetical situation technique, and role-playing and simulation technique. .

Teaching a ‘Managing Innovation and Technology' Course

2020 ◽  
pp. 1075-1093
Author(s):  
Despo Ktoridou ◽  
Epaminondas Epaminonda
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Management Of Innovation ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Inductive Methods ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

In the last few years an increasing emphasis on developing entrepreneurship has been evident in many universities in an effort to prepare students to integrate effectively into the competitive working environment of the 21st century. A key question is how to do this. This work examines the impact of Student Centered Learning (SCL) introduced in a multidisciplinary undergraduate course of Management of Innovation and Technology at the University of Nicosia. It examines students' and lecturer experiences, benefits and challenges of implementing SCL, and gives recommendations to lecturers for designing a SCL based curriculum, incorporating inductive methods. The findings may be useful for academics who teach entrepreneurship related topics and seek ways to incorporate innovative approaches in their teaching and learning processes in order to motivate students towards the development of entrepreneurial skills and thinking.

Research on the Student-centered Learning in Mass Media Reading Course

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Xue Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Classroom Performance ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
English Reading ◽  
New Information ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
The University

With China’s impressive development in all fields, the need for all-round talents is becoming increasingly eminent. The society and our country demand that university students should not only be an expert in their own specialization, but also they be able to communicate cross cultures. Mass Media Reading course, as an integral part of the university English courses, is designed to serve that purpose. Through this course, students are supposed to broaden their minds and push forward the frontiers of knowledge by learning the culturally-loaded information embedded in the foreign news. They are also expected to sharpen their minds by exchanges of ideas and by comparing different perspectives. They are to hone their skills in English reading, speaking and translation through this course. The current course design is not successful in fulfilling all the purposes, and previous classroom performance shows the students are reluctant to receive new information and know the outside world through newspaper reading which they think is beyond their reach. However, studies and papers analyzing this issue are lacking. Therefore, research on how to improve students’ enthusiasm and motivation in this course should be conducted. This paper tries to shed some light on the modes of student-centered learning that arouse students’ interest in and enthusiasm for this course. Hopefully, this will be helpful to the teachers and students learning this course.

Creating a Student Centered Learning Environment at the University of Denver

2003 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald R. Delyser ◽  
Sheila S. Thompson ◽  
Jerry Edelstein ◽  
Corinne Lengsfeld ◽  
Albert J. Rosa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
University Of Denver ◽  
The University

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF ACTIVE LEARNING IN SCHOOL (ALIS) ON BIOLOGY SUBJECT AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN SALATIGA

EDUTECH ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Desy Fajar Priyayi ◽  
Risya Pramana Situmorang ◽  
Gamaliel Septian Airlanda
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Contextual Learning ◽  
Biology Teachers ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Student Work ◽  
High Level

Abstract, Active learning in school (ALIS) is one of the learning models that can be applied by teachers to improve students’ achievement. This study aims to determine the implementation of ALIS indicator on biology subject at senior high school in Salatiga and to know the factors that influence it. This is a descriptive qualitative research and the data was collected using  questionnaires, observation, interview, and documentation technique. The objects of study were 156 students and 5 biology teachers at five senior high schools in Salatiga. The results showed the percentage of ALIS indicators from low level to high were: learning to encourage students to interact multidirectional (60.42%); using the environment as a medium and learning resources (64.94%); maintaining the learning environment (65.81%); learning encourages student to think at high level (66.11%); student-centered learning (66.91%); there are feedback on student work (70.47%); monitoring the learning process by teacher (71.04 %); contextual learning (73.63%); learning model accommodate different learning style (75.71%). Biology teachers in Salatiga have been implementing ALIS but there are some factors influence it which include lack of time to study with so many subject materials, inadequate facilities and infrastructure, and the students’ unfamiliarity with the application of active learning.Keywords: ALIS, active learning, biology teaching and learningAbstrak, Active learning in school (ALIS) merupakan salah satu pilihan model pembelajaran yang dapat diterapkan oleh guru dan memberikan dampak positif kepada siswa. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui penerapan indikator ALIS pada mata pelajaran biologi sekolah menengah atas (SMA) di Salatiga dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhinya. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan angket, observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Obyek penelitian adalah 156 siswa dan 5 guru biologi yang tersebar di  lima Sekolah Menengah Atas (SMA) kota Salatiga. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan persentase keterlaksanaan indikator ALIS dari tingkat rendah ke tinggi adalah: pembelajaran mendorong siswa untuk berinteraksi multiarah (60,42%), pembelajaran penggunaan lingkungan sebagai media dan sumber belajar (64,94%), adanya penataan lingkungan belajar (65,81%), pembelajaran mendorong anak untuk berpikir tingkat tinggi (66,11%), pembelajaran berpusat pada siswa (66,91%), adanya umpan balik terhadap hasil kerja siswa (70,47%), pemantauan proses belajar oleh guru (71,04%), pembelajaran terkait dengan kehidupan nyata (73,63%), pembelajaran mengakomodasi gaya belajar yang berbeda-beda (75,71%).Guru biologi di Salatiga telah melaksanakan ALIS, namun terdapat beberapa hambatan antara lain: keterbatasan waktu dengan tuntutan banyaknya materi, terbatasnya sarana dan prasarana, dan belum terbiasanya siswa menerapkan pembelajaran aktif.

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