scholarly journals New role model for teachers in Higher Education?

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
Hagen Hochrinner
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Independent Research ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The One ◽  
Traditional Structures ◽  
Successful Education

AbstractThe traditional university was for decades not called into question as a place for R---amp---D and higher education.At the one hand this enabled successful independent research, at the other hand there was few need to reflect traditional structures of knowledge transfer.The nowadays omnipresent decrease in financial resources has caused universities to compete for financial support from the business sector; additionally universities have to justify their existence for their duties in education for providing the society with academic skilled working forces. This leads to a competition between the universities and to attract applicants they have to boost the attractivity of the offered study programs. Education became a market.The traditional methods of ex-cathedra teaching have been the standard mean of knowledge transfer for a long time. The pedagogical concepts at the tertiary level were neglected; in many institutions the teaching duties were seen more as a burden than mission.The paper will show that the values of our great philosophers are still valid and how the new teaching approach of Dual Education can fulfill requirements of industry for young academics at the entrance to business life.The development of dual study programs and a new pedagogical approach in teaching methods may be one mean to face the challenges for the successful education especially in the technical sciences.

scholarly journals EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING METHODS USED IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY OF EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF MADRID, SPAIN

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Leila Bardasuc ◽  
Jose Luis Martinez Rubio ◽  
Nicusor Marcel Udrea ◽  
Monica Delia Domnica
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
European University

The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of various teaching methods used in higher education and the perception of the students regarding these methods. In order to determine the possible ways to obtain strategic advantages and benefit from the strengths, the university has to know what drives foreign students in choosing a certain study program, even if it is outside their country of origin. At the same time, knowing the disadvantages that prevent them from doing so, helps the university include ways to correct the weaknesses or to offer solutions to them. The students, participating in this research, are enrolled at the European University in Madrid, from different study programs and degrees (license, master and doctoral programs) and were asked to answer a questionnaire about the use of teaching methods, about their perceptions upon effective teaching and the reasons that have determined them to choose to follow a study program. The results were in favor of a higher use of projects, group activities and case studies during classes and seminars at the European University of Madrid and of using new technologies in the educational system (e-learning, simulations, use of intranet, and activities in laboratories). As a primer characteristic searched for when choosing a study program, the students mentioned practice, mainly for developing abilities useful for applying for a job as soon as possible. It is, therefore, important to analyze the teaching methods and this research helps us understand how students see the teaching process and which are the methods that help them to better understand and to be more active during classes. Key words: creativity development, innovative teaching, practical activities, teaching methods.

scholarly journals Integrating Mini-MOOCs into Study Programs in Higher Education during COVID-19. Five Pilot Case Studies in Context of the Open Virtual Mobility Project

2020 ◽  
pp. 299-310
Author(s):  
Ilona Buchem ◽  
Francesca Amenduni ◽  
Vlad Michaescu ◽  
Diana Andone ◽  
Gemma Tur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
Virtual Mobility ◽  
Specific Competency ◽  
The One ◽  
Development Assessment ◽  
Mobility Skills

This paper describes five different pilot case studies which show how mini-MOOCs were integrated into study programs in higher education during COVID-19. The pilot case studies were conducted in five different countries (Germany, Italy, Spain, Romania and Slovenia) in the first quarter of 2020 as part of the Open Virtual Mobility project. Open Virtual Mobility project (OpenVM) is a three year (2017-2020) strategic partnership for innovation and the exchange of good practices founded by the European Erasmus+ program of the European Commission. One of the key outcomes of the Open Virtual Mobility project is the Open Virtual Mobility Learning Hub (OpenVM Learning Hub), an online learning environment for the development, assessment and recognition of virtual mobility skills in higher education. The OpenVM Learning Hub hosts a set of eight mini-MOOCs, each dedicated to a specific competency cluster. Based on small-scale pilots at the universities in the five countries, this paper describes the design of OpenVM mini-MOOC, spotlights different educational approaches for integrating MOOCs into study programs during COVID-19 and highlights diverse objectives, attitudes and expectations of educators who piloted the integration of the mini-MOOCs during the pandemic. The paper explores differences in integration of traditional MOOCs and mini-MOOCs and concludes with recommendations for embedding mini-MOOCs into academic programs in view of rapid (digital) transformations in higher education such as the one caused by COVID-19.

scholarly journals Online education: creating conditions for students to succeed

2021 ◽  
Vol 291 ◽  
pp. 05009
Author(s):  
Olga Kovbasyuk ◽  
Angelina Dolgaya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Culture Model ◽  
The One ◽  
Successful Education ◽  
Key Success Factor

This paper focuses on a key success factor in higher education, which is its management, related to creating conditions for successful education. The notion “successful education” is complicated and it has not been analyzed conceptionally. We argue that successful education is the one which provides students with experience to succeed in life. The models of successful online education should aim at supporting students’ experience rather than at providing admission to the technology itself. Management in higher education, in this case will be built on organization students’ experience which leads to successful education. X culture model has proved to serve this purpose.

scholarly journals La educación y el Derecho en torno a un nuevo paradigma transformador

Justicia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (27) ◽  
Author(s):  
Porfirio Andres Bayuelo Schoonewolff
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Social Reformer ◽  
Training Plan ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

ResumenDesde hace mucho tiempo la educación en Latinoamerica se encuentra en crisis, por ello las instituciones de educación superior, entidades del Estado y organismos internacionales han tomado la responsabilidad de establecer una cultura de educar en y para lo superior en términos de calidad, lo cual ha permitido que se lleven a cabo programas, proyectos, convenciones y demás que contribuyan al mejoramiento de la educación. Igualmente, en las facultades de Derecho, tambien se observa latente esta situación, evidenciandose, en su gran mayoria, en los profesionales que al salir de la academia se encuentran con un mundo diferente al aprendido. Es por esto que se han determinado los principales inconvenientes y se plantea un nuevo paradigma para la enseñanza narrativa del Derecho. Con esta organización se complementara la ensefianza del Derecho narrativo y complejo que contara con altos estandares de calidad en la educación, siendo transformador social y contribuyente al progreso social, económico, politico y tecnológico de Colombia y Latinoamerica. AbstractFor a long time, education in Latin America has been in crisis; for this reason, institutions of higher education, state entities and international bodies have taken on the responsibility to establish a training plan to teach both in higher education and for higher education, in terms of quality. This fact has allowed the development of programs, projects, conventions and other activities which contribute to improvement of education. Likewise, at Law faculties, this underlying situation is also observed, having clear evidence of it when professionals graduate from the university to face a different context from the one learnt. Therefore, the main inconveniences have been determined and a new paradigm for teaching Legal Narrative is suggested. With this structure, teaching Legal complex narrative will be complemented, having high quality standards in education and being a social reformer, as well as contributing to social, economic, political and technological progress in Colombia and Latin America.

scholarly journals Teacher’s Identity, Marketization of Higher Education, and Curriculum

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Yaghoob Javadi ◽  
Solmaz Azizzadeh Asl
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Price Mechanism ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Competition And Cooperation ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Marketization Of Higher Education

For a long time, education has been praised as a morality in itself. Great philosophers have proudly called themselves “teachers”, and education was considered a special gift given to young gifted people. But in today’s world, in which everything, including even human feelings, have changed and become commodified, education has not been an exception. There have been many changes in education such as internationalization, increased competition and cooperation, neoliberalism, marketization, privatization, and new teaching methods. The idea that education is simply another market commodity has become pervasive in different discourses. Marketization which is one of the consequences of neoliberalism policies is an attempt that appraises everything related to higher education based on a market, where demand and supply and all the educational activities are determined and evaluated based on the price mechanism (Brown, 2014). This trend has fundamental effects on different aspects of the higher education including teacher’s identity and curriculum design. In this article, the researcher defines the concept of identity and then describes the type of teacher’s identity that is promoted by the marketization of higher education. Also, characteristics and some of the consequences of marketization of higher education and the effects of such trend on curriculum design are discussed.

Alkohol im Tank – Bio-Kraftstoffe und die Grenzen moderner Mobilität

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (136) ◽  
pp. 455-468
Author(s):  
Hartwig Berger
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Food Market ◽  
The One ◽  
The Third World

The article discusses the future of mobility in the light of energy resources. Fossil fuel will not be available for a long time - not to mention its growing environmental and political conflicts. In analysing the potential of biofuel it is argued that the high demands of modern mobility can hardly be fulfilled in the future. Furthermore, the change into using biofuel will probably lead to increasing conflicts between the fuel market and the food market, as well as to conflicts with regional agricultural networks in the third world. Petrol imperialism might be replaced by bio imperialism. Therefore, mobility on a solar base pursues a double strategy of raising efficiency on the one hand and strongly reducing mobility itself on the other.

From Scarcity to Abundance: Achieving Quality-Assured Mass Higher Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter P. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Secondary System ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One

The United States is in a bind. On the one hand, we need millions of additional citizens with at least one year of successful post-secondary experience to adapt to the knowledge economy. Both the Gates and Lumina Foundations, and our President, have championed this goal in different ways. On the other hand, we have a post-secondary system that is trapped between rising costs and stagnant effectiveness, seemingly unable to respond effectively to this challenge. This paper analyzes several aspects of this problem, describes changes in the society that create the basis for solutions, and offers several examples from Kaplan University of emerging practice that suggests what good practice might look like in a world where quality-assured mass higher education is the norm.

The interaction of higher education system with the labor market: A study of the labor market in the regions of the Volga Federal District

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 456-480
Author(s):  
R.B. Galeeva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Education System ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Expert Survey ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One

Subject .This article discusses the need to bring into line with the future activities of specialists the content of their preparation, the formation of a system model of higher education, which takes into account today's and prospective requirements of the labor market. Objectives. The article aims to research the labor market in four regions of the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation: the Republic of Tatarstan, Mari El Republic, Chuvash Republic, and the Ulyanovsk oblast, as well as discuss problems and prospects of interaction of universities with enterprises and organizations of these regions. Methods. For the study, I used the methods of logical and statistical analyses, and in-depth expert survey. Results. The article analyzes the state of regional labor markets, presents the results of the expert survey of labor market representatives and heads of the regional education system, and it defines possible ways of harmonizing the interaction of universities with the labor market. Conclusions. The article notes that although the number of employed with higher education is growing, at the same time there is a shortage of highly qualified personnel in certain professions, on the one hand, and unskilled workers, on the other. Also, the article says that the universities do not prepare the necessary for the regions specialists in a number of professions or they provide a set of competencies different from the requirements of the labor market, so it is necessary to form and develop effective directions of cooperation between educational institutions and employers.

ПСИХОЛОГО-ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИЕ УСЛОВИЯ СОГЛАСОВАНИЯ ГУМАНИТАРНОГО СТИЛЯ МЫШЛЕНИЯ И ЕСТСТВЕННОНАУЧНОГО ЗНАНИЯ В ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОМ ПРОЦЕССЕ ВУЗА// Academy Journal No.5(17), 2019/ Chief Editor Susan Belih /OEAPS Inc.(Open European Academy of Public Sciences). Tallinn, Estonia. 09.05.2019: OEAPS Inc., 2019. - pp. 45-53.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Раиса Николаевна Афонина ◽  
Людмила Константиновна Синцова
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Chief Editor ◽  
Interactive Teaching ◽  
European Academy ◽  
Secondary School Education ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Practice

В статье рассматривается проблема согласования гуманитарного стиля мышления и естественнонаучного знания. Практика показывает, что у студентов, выбравших для обучения гуманитарные специальности, преобладает гуманитарное мышление. Оно сформировано условиями профильного обучения в средней школе и продолжает развиваться на этапе получения высшего образования. Гуманитарный тип мышления характеризуется диалогичностью, вариативностью, креативностью, самостоятельностью в освоении новых знаний, способностью к интеллектуальным изобретениям и экспериментам с неизвестными и неочевидными результатами, к рефлексивности и критичности результатов деятельности. Важнейшими условиями повышения эффективности в освоении содержания естественнонаучных дисциплин студентами-гуманитариями являются учет возможностей и познавательных интересов студентов, использование резервов учебной информации, интерактивных методов обучения.The article deals with the problem of harmonizing the humanitarian style of thinking and natural science knowledge. Practice shows that students who choose humanities to study in humanities have humanitarian thinking that prevails. It is shaped by the profile of secondary school education and continues to evolve at the stage of higher education. The humanitarian type of thinking is characterized by dialogue, variability, creativity, autonomy in the development of new knowledge, the ability to intellectual inventions and experiments with unknown and non-obvious results, to reflexivity and criticality of the results of activities. The most important conditions for increasing the effectiveness in mastering the content of natural science disciplines by students of the humanities are taking into account the capabilities and cognitive interests of students, the use of reserves of educational information, interactive teaching methods.

Making it abstract, making it contestable: Gender/sex as a politicized concept

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Mazzuca ◽  
Matteo Santarelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Biological Feature ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Cultural Construct ◽  
Science Framework ◽  
The One

The concept of gender has been the battleground of scientific and political speculations for a long time. On the one hand, some accounts contended that gender is a biological feature, while on the other hand some scholars maintained that gender is a socio-cultural construct (e.g., Butler, 1990; Risman, 2004). Some of the questions that animated the debate on gender over history are: how many genders are there? Is gender rooted in our biological asset? Are gender and sex the same thing? All of these questions entwine one more crucial, and often overlooked interrogative. How is it possible for a concept to be the purview of so many disagreements and conceptual redefinitions? The question that this paper addresses is therefore not which specific account of gender is preferable. Rather, the main question we will address is how and why is even possible to disagree on how gender should be considered. To provide partial answers to these questions, we suggest that gender/sex (van Anders, 2015; Fausto-Sterling, 2019) is an illustrative example of politicized concepts. We show that no concepts are political in themselves; instead, some concepts are subjected to a process involving a progressive detachment from their supposed concrete referent (i.e., abstractness), a tension to generalizability (i.e., abstraction), a partial indeterminacy (i.e., vagueness), and the possibility of being contested (i.e., contestability). All of these features differentially contribute to what we call the politicization of a concept. In short, we will claim that in order to politicize a concept, a possible strategy is to evidence its more abstract facets, without denying its more embodied and perceptual components (Borghi et al., 2019). So, we will first outline how gender has been treated in psychological and philosophical discussions, to evidence its essentially contestable character thereby showing how it became a politicized concept. Then we will review some of the most influential accounts of political concepts, arguing that currently they need to be integrated with more sophisticated distinctions (e.g., Koselleck, 2004). The notions gained from the analyses of some of the most important accounts of political concepts in social sciences and philosophy will allow us to implement a more dynamic approach to political concepts. Specifically, when translated into the cognitive science framework, these reflections will help us clarifying some crucial aspects of the nature of politicized concepts. Bridging together social and cognitive sciences, we will show how politicized concepts are abstract concepts, or better abstract conceptualizations.

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