scholarly journals Technology Integration in Higher Education: Situations of Faculty Members

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 717-733
Author(s):  
Erkan Çalışkan ◽  
Nezih Önal ◽  
Semirhan Gökçe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Technology Integration ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
High Level

Since the use of technology in education is considered critical in terms of both teaching and learning, technology integration into instructional methods and teaching environments is a must. This requirement is indispensable for the education organizations at all levels of education, including higher education organizations. The use of instructional technology not only increases the success of the students but also offers many advantages to the academic staff. To benefit from technology for educational purposes, the staff must first adopt the technology and use it to support their teaching and then restructure their teaching experience with technology. The purpose of this study is to investigate the issues in technology integration of academic staff at a Turkish university located in Central Anatolia. Both qualitative and quantitative data analysis techniques were used in this study designed as a correlational survey research. The results showed that the techno-pedagogical competence of academic staff was almost at the advanced level. Moreover, the staff had high level of information and communication technologies (ICT) acceptance so they used technology in their teaching quite often. The participants reported that they used technology during the presentation of slides, and listed their major problems as insufficient infrastructure, limited ICT skills, inadequate technical support, and student- and software- related problems. The findings indicated that it was the daily life experiences of the academic staff rather than the in-service trainings that enhanced their technological and pedagogical skills.

scholarly journals Enabling learning through technology: some institutional imperatives

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey McCartan ◽  
Barbara Watson ◽  
Janet Lewins ◽  
Margaret Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Technology Programme

The imminent completion of many Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP) projects means that a considerable number of courseware deliverables will soon be available to Higher-Education (HE) institutions. The Higher Education Funding Council's intention in funding the Programme (HEFCE Circulars, 8/92, 13/93) was to ensure their integration into academic curricula by providing institutions with an opportunity to review their 'teaching and learning culture' with regard to the embedding of learning technology within their institutional practice. Two recent workshops, conducted with a representative sample of newly appointed academic staff in connection with the evaluation of materials to be included in a staff development pack whose purpose is to encourage the use of IT in teaching and learning (TLTP Project 7), strongly suggested that the availability of courseware alone was insufficient to ensure its integration into educational practice. The establishment of enabling mechanisms at the institutional level, as well as within departments, was crucial to ensure the effective use of learning technology.DOI:10.1080/0968776950030115

New Knowledge - New Learning?

2013 ◽  
pp. 530-539
Author(s):  
Maria Slowey ◽  
Ekaterina Kozina
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
New Learning ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Bologna Process

The landscape of university undergraduate and postgraduate education in Ireland has undergone a significant change within the broader context of the Bologna Process in Europe. In recent years, a range of national steering initiatives have sought to promote curriculum reform, enhancement of teaching and learning, use of new learning technology, new forms of student support, and professional development of academic staff. The aim of this chapter is to analyse both underlying challenges and some significant achievements. The latter include examples of collaborative initiatives between academics and centres for academic practice and student learning in universities and joint projects across an alliance involving eight institutions of higher education. The authors also talk about the drivers of curriculum reform in higher education and illustrate how these are translated in practice through the introduction of a major curriculum reform initiative, the Academic Framework for Innovation (AFI) in one university.

scholarly journals E-LEARNING IN HEALTHCARE WITHIN HIGHER EDUCATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 475-481
Author(s):  
Ivanichka Serbezova ◽  
Tsveta Hristova ◽  
Yoana Lukanova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Psychomotor Skills ◽  
Educational Models ◽  
E Learning

The Health Care department specialities are regulated professions whose training programmes require the graduates to be competent in a number of issues and activities related to their work. The subject of their professional activity is the individual with their health-related conditions. Healthcare specialists draw conclusions in a variety of clinical situations and perform different healthcare procedures aiming to achieve prevention and recovery in a patient’s health. They have to establish a number of practical psychomotor skills in the field of compliant medical and healthcare handling, as well as communication skills for liaising with the patient and their relatives. In addition, the healthcare specialists have to learn how to overcome negative emotions, and to seek balance between the development of their technological knowledge and professional behavior. In the changing profile of healthcare trainees – nurses and midwives, there is a strongly-influenced tendency towards technological development and digital revolution. Video methods are developing educational technologies. They have their own place in the acquisition of healthcare patient-handling and communication skills when they are effectively included within the standard curriculum. This poses a challenge for the academic staff to draw up and provide educational tools and technologies that are liked, and match the students’ contemporary learning styles. It has become necessary for academic staff to withdraw the traditional didactic educational models and to adopt more constructive approaches for greater involvement and participation of the trainees in the educational process.The article justifies the necessity for optimizing education in the healthcare field through implementing e-learning within higher education. This need is driven by the ever-increasing inclusion of information technologies in healthcare, as well as in all other aspects of life. The design and development of e-learning technology and methodology in university contributes to solving great many pedagogical and psychological problems. Implementing information and communication technologies presents us with a new level of mediation for mental and communicative activities of both lecturers and students. Video education has been explored in the current scientific report and an educational cycle is presented in regard to the healthcare experts training. Implementation of social media and its inclusion within the educational process of both midwives and nurses are discussed. The necessity to include video tutorials in the educational process is justified. It is concluded the aforementioned are educational resources which should not be ignored but, on the contrary – they have to be used as complementary educational content within the contemporary education of healthcare experts.

scholarly journals Learning technology in Scottish higher education - a survey of the views of senior managers, academic staff and 'experts'

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Haywood ◽  
Charles Anderson ◽  
Helen Coyle ◽  
Kate Day ◽  
Denise Haywood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
The United States ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Culture Shift ◽  
Technology In Higher Education

Central concerns within the field of learning technology in higher education have been the promotion of institutional change and staff awareness and development. This focus on the need to bring about a 'culture shift' and the importance of 'change agents' is reflected in the Dearing Report (DfEE, 1997) and in Funding Council initiatives such as TLTP and TLTSN (Davies, 1995). It is common for many of us who work in this area to feel that although we see clearly the task ahead, we have little at our disposal by way of evidence about how far we have come. Much of the evidence which does exist, and which has been incorporated into lectures and reports, is anecdotal, local and small scale, although there have been some larger studies, notably the Information Technology Assisted Teaching and Learning project (ITATL, 1997), and a 1999 study of C&IT materials funded by the Funding Councils (HEFCE, 1999a), and in the United States the national survey of desktop computing and IT in higher education (Green, 1989-99). These showed a rapidly increasing use of learning technology in higher education, and some of the limitations and restrictions which staff feel, such as technical support. However, there had been no indepth study of the subject and institution-specific influences on academic staff use of, and attitudes to, learning technology.DOI:10.1080/0968776000080202 

scholarly journals Academics' use of courseware materials: a survey

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Laurillard ◽  
Betty Swift ◽  
Jonathan Darby
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Use Of Technology

Learning technology has yet to enter the mainstream of higher education. The UFC-funded Teaching and Learning Technology (TLT) programme is attempting to change this by sponsoring projects concerned with courseware production and delivery. These efforts could be thwarted if the Not Invented Here syndrome prevents the use of technology-based teaching and learning materials outside the originating departments. To gain a clearer understanding of why academics have been rejecting much existing courseware, and to establish the extent of the Not Invented Here syndrome, we carried out a survey of 800 academics in eight UK universities. The survey proved to be exceptionally revealing.DOI:10.1080/0968776930010102

scholarly journals Doing staff development: Practices, dilemmas and technologies

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hannon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Development ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Learning Technology

<span>Online learning technologies now pervade higher education institutions, and the convergence of teaching and learning onto technological systems has created new work practices and a demand for staff development. Educational developers are located at a nexus between the institutional and pragmatic imperatives, from which tensions and incongruencies emerge and need to be resolved in daily practice. In this paper, this nexus is explored by analysing accounts of educational development practice from one institution, based on interviews with educational developers. This paper considers staff development practices in higher education in response to the processes of change associated with learning technology, and the strategies used to resolve incongruencies and conflicts that emerged from these practices were analysed. The discourse analytic method of "interpretative repertoires" (Potter &amp; Wetherell, 1987) is used to explore the resolution of dilemmas in practice. In this case study, two contrasting repertoires are used to account for staff development: one that 'enables' academic staff in their use of learning technologies, and another which 'guides' staff in their online teaching towards specified technologies. The intersection of the two repertoires in the institution presented dilemmas for educational developers. The responses to these contexts and the implications for educational development are explored.</span>

Challenges Posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for South African Higher Education Institutions

10.28945/2679 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
ME Herselman ◽  
HR Hay
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Teaching Learning

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are the major driving forces of globalised and knowledge-based societies of a new world era. They will have a profound impact on teaching and learning for two decades to come. The revolutionary change which is taking place in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), has dramatic effects on the way universities carry out their functions of teaching, learning and research, particularly on the creation, dissemination and application of knowledge. These developments pose unprecedented challenges to higher education institutions (HEIs) in developing countries particular in South Africa as South Africa is viewed as the leading country on the continent.

scholarly journals Challenges for implementing open educational resources by teachers in higher education

2018 ◽  
Vol 325 ◽  
pp. 479-490
Author(s):  
Roza Dumbraveanu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Educational Philosophy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Teachers Training

Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are facing a number of problems during the last decades: the need to update the curricula to make it compatible with the similar ones from other national and European universities; demand to update the content and the pedagogical approach due to knowledge, technological and research development. Open Educational Resources (OER) might be a sound strategy for institutions to meet these challenges. At the same time OER are themselves one of the challenges that the teachers are faced with. OER could be implemented in courses in different ways, depending on the types of OER and the educational philosophy adopted by the teachers. The paper describes some challenges for implementing Open Educational Resources by teachers in Higher Education in Moldova: the level of awareness on availability and usage of OER; fair use matters; quality assurance of resources; pedagogical approaches for implementing OER into teaching and learning. The paper also grasps the issues of the digital divide that emerge when investigating these challenges. The judgment is based on the literature analysis and on the author’s teaching experience within courses for initial and continuous professional teachers’ training.

scholarly journals As Tecnologias da Informação e da Comunicação e o Desenvolvimento de Estratégias de Resolução de Problemas em Estudantes do Ensino Superior da área da Saúde

EAD em FOCO ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angélica Monteiro ◽  
Rita Manuela Barros
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Health Course ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Implementation Methodology

O nosso trabalho pretende descrever o processo de desenho e implementação de objetos de aprendizagem orientados para o desenvolvimento de estratégias de resolução de problemas, numa escola superior do ensino politécnico português. Com a apresentação de um caso prático, demonstramos a utilização de um objeto de aprendizagem elaborado no âmbito de uma unidade curricular de Informática e Sistemas de Informação de um curso de licenciatura na área da Saúde, cuja metodologia de implementação se baseou na Problem Based Learning. Enquadrados num modelo de ensino-aprendizagem sustentado na participação ativa dos estudantes e orientado para a resolução de problemas por meio das TIC, o recurso ao método dos 3E permitiu o desenvolvimento de objetos de aprendizagem diversificados e consonantes com o processamento diferencial de informação dos estudantes, garantindo os resultados de aprendizagem definidos.Palavras-chave: Tecnologias da informação e da comunicação, Metodologias de ensino, Objetos de aprendizagem, Ensino superior.? The Information and Communication Technologies and the Development of Problem Based Learning Strategies on Higher Education in the Health AreaAbstractOur work aims to describe the process of design and implementation of Learning Objects to develop strategies for solving problems in a higher education Portuguese institution. We demonstrate a case study prepared under a "Computer and Information Systems" curricular unit of a health course, whose implementation methodology relied in Problem Based Learning. Framed in a model of teaching and learning supported the active participation of students and oriented towards problem solving through ICT, the use of the method of 3E allowed the development of Learning Objects and in line with the students' different information processes, ensuring the settled outcomes. Keywords: Information and communication technology, Teaching methodology, Learning objects, Higher education.

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