scholarly journals Enseñanza remota durante la pandemia por COVID-19 en la Universidad Tecnológica del Norte de Aguascalientes

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Ana Cecilia Álvarez-Loera ◽  
María-Guadalupe Pérez-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Internet Survey ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Improving Teaching And Learning

This article presents an exploratory study of the experiences of university teachers during Emergency Remote Teaching (ERE) in response to COVID-19. Teaching practices, conditions for remote teaching and teachers’ working conditions were investigated under a systematic approach. An internet survey was applied to all teachers at the Universidad Tecnológica del Norte de Aguascalientes. Results show an overload of academic activities among teachers, an increase in working hours due to planning and assessment in online environments, and other sources of stress among teachers. Some difficulties faced by the institution are hightlighted and conclusions emphasize the importance of ensuring inputs that contribute to improving teaching and learning environments, preserving the health of teachers and continuing the research on the influence of different teaching conditions on teaching practices.

Yemeni Pre-Service Teachers Educators' Perceptions of Lesson Study in Pre-service Teachers Preparation Program (an Exploratory Study): إدراكات معلمي المعلمين اليمنيين قبل الخدمة في برنامج إعداد المعلمين للدرس المبحوث (دراسة استكشافية)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulsalam Sulaiman Dawood Al-hadabi
Keyword(s):  
Lesson Study ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Professional Development Model ◽  
Collaborative Professional Development ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Improving Teaching And Learning ◽  
Purposive Sample

Lesson study (LS), as a model for improving teaching and learning, has tremendous merits for both teachers and students during learning-teaching procedures. Thus, this study can serve in developing an awareness of the pre-service teachers' educators (PSTEs) toward LS as a collaborative professional development model. This study, therefore, aimed to explore the perception of participants who were selected purposively (i.e. using a purposive sample) from the PSTEs at faculty of education-Amran university, Yemen, about LS and its implementation (LSIs). To this end, an open-ended interview was conducted with six interviewees, participants mentioned above, in the second semester of the academic year (2017/2018s). The most important result of this study was that all of the PSTEs participated in this study were not aware about the LS and LSIs, too. Based on the study's results, some recommendations were recommended.

scholarly journals Surgical leadership within rapidly changing working conditions in Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Schmitz-Rixen ◽  
Reinhart T. Grundmann
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Physician Assistants ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Surgical Department ◽  
Chief Physician

AbstractIntroductionAn overview of the requirements for the head of a surgical department in Germany should be given.Materials and methodsA retrospective literature research on surgical professional policy publications of the last 10 years in Germany was conducted.ResultsSurveys show that commercial influences on medical decisions in German hospitals have today become an everyday, predominantly negative, actuality. Nevertheless, in one survey, 82.9% of surgical chief physicians reported being very satisfied with their profession, compared with 61.5% of senior physicians and only 43.4% of hospital specialists. Here, the chief physician is challenged. Only 70% of those surveyed stated that they could rely on their direct superiors when difficulties arose at work, and only 34.1% regarded feedback on the quality of their work as sufficient. The high distress rate in surgery (58.2% for all respondents) has led to a lack in desirability and is reflected in a shortage of qualified applicants for resident positions. In various position papers, surgical residents (only 35% describe their working conditions as good) demand improved working conditions. Chief physicians are being asked to facilitate a suitable work-life balance with regular working hours and a corporate culture with participative management and collegial cooperation. Appreciation of employee performance must also be expressed. An essential factor contributing to dissatisfaction is that residents fill a large part of their daily working hours with non-physician tasks. In surveys, 70% of respondents stated that they spend up to ≥3 h a day on documentation and secretarial work.DiscussionThe chief physician is expected to relieve his medical staff by employing non-physician assistants to take care of non-physician tasks. Transparent and clearly structured training to achieve specialist status is essential. It has been shown that a balanced work-life balance can be achieved for surgeons. Family and career can be reconciled in appropriately organized departments by making use of part-time and shift models that exclude 24-h shifts and making working hours more flexible.

scholarly journals Balancing Technology, Pedagogy and the New Normal: Post-pandemic Challenges for Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrysi Rapanta ◽  
Luca Botturi ◽  
Peter Goodyear ◽  
Lourdes Guàrdia ◽  
Marguerite Koole
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Expert Advice ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Science And Education

AbstractThe Covid-19 pandemic has presented an opportunity for rethinking assumptions about education in general and higher education in particular. In the light of the general crisis the pandemic caused, especially when it comes to the so-called emergency remote teaching (ERT), educators from all grades and contexts experienced the necessity of rethinking their roles, the ways of supporting the students’ learning tasks and the image of students as self-organising learners, active citizens and autonomous social agents. In our first Postdigital Science and Education paper, we sought to distil and share some expert advice for campus-based university teachers to adapt to online teaching and learning. In this sequel paper, we ask ourselves: Now that campus-based university teachers have experienced the unplanned and forced version of Online Learning and Teaching (OLT), how can this experience help bridge the gap between online and in-person teaching in the following years? The four experts, also co-authors of this paper, interviewed aligning towards an emphasis on pedagogisation rather than digitalisation of higher education, with strategic decision-making being in the heart of post-pandemic practices. Our literature review of papers published in the last year and analysis of the expert answers reveal that the ‘forced’ experience of teaching with digital technologies as part of ERT can gradually give place to a harmonious integration of physical and digital tools and methods for the sake of more active, flexible and meaningful learning.

When Seeing Is Believing: Generalizability and Decision Studies for Observational Data in Evaluation and Research on Teaching

2021 ◽  
pp. 109821402093194
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Weston ◽  
Charles N. Hayward ◽  
Sandra L. Laursen
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Interrater Reliability ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Generalizability Theory ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Reliable Measure ◽  
Single Class ◽  
Research On Teaching ◽  
The One

Observations are widely used in research and evaluation to characterize teaching and learning activities. Because conducting observations is typically resource intensive, it is important that inferences from observation data are made confidently. While attention focuses on interrater reliability, the reliability of a single-class measure over the course of a semester receives less attention. We examined the use and limitations of observation for evaluating teaching practices, and how many observations are needed during a typical course to make confident inferences about teaching practices. We conducted two studies based on generalizability theory to calculate reliabilities given class-to-class variation in teaching over a semester. Eleven observations of class periods over the length of a semester were needed to achieve a reliable measure, many more than the one to four class periods typically observed in the literature. Findings suggest practitioners may need to devote more resources than anticipated to achieve reliable measures and comparisons.

Toward a Richer Theory of Feminist Pedagogy: A Comparison of “Liberation” and “Gender” Models for Teaching and Learning

1987 ◽  
Vol 169 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances A. Maher
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Feminist Pedagogy ◽  
Women's Development ◽  
Conventional Teaching ◽  
Liberation Pedagogy ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Contemporary Education

This essay articulates two distinct sources for the set of teaching practices that have come to be called “feminist pedagogy.” The separate contributions of liberation pedagogy and of feminist theories of women's development are described. It is argued that neither approach taken by itself is adequate to produce a feminist pedagogy that fully challenges the androcentric universals of conventional teaching practices. By synthesizing the two approaches, however, feminist pedagogy can be developed in a way that will have a strong influence on contemporary education.

Virtual learning solutions in COVID-19 era: University Italian Ophthalmology department perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 112067212110155
Author(s):  
Carla Enrica Gallenga ◽  
Luca Agnifili ◽  
Rossella D’Aloisio ◽  
Lorenza Brescia ◽  
Lisa Toto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Surgical Simulator ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
Initial Results

Introduction: Few months after the COVID-19 pandemic burst, many aspects of the human life, including education, dramatically changed. Because of the lockdown measures taken to limit the virus spread in Italy, in-person teaching and learning have been interrupted in all health care disciplines and readapted in virtual formulae. Methods: As academic ophthalmology departments, we had to maintain the educational needs of medical and orthoptic students, internships, surgical training of residents, as well as to cover the scientific update of health care personnel (HCPs), and the continuation of research and academic activities. To assure these needs we ideated an educational strategy and a team, which was then translated on a multichannel virtual platform created with Microsoft Teams. Results: In this platform there were 21 channels organized in a public view mode, open to all Team members, or in private view mode to separate non-permanent HCPs, internships, residents, and students’ tasks, from permanent HCPs tasks. Virtual channels were dedicated to provide theoretical lessons, clinical cases, surgical video, internal meetings and webinar, to offer news from scientific societies, requests of appointments from biomedical companies, links with ophthalmological websites, to move forward research projects, to participate at institutional academic duties, and to obtain feedbacks from users. Residents continued their training on surgery using a surgical simulator, after consulting an agenda uploaded into the dedicated virtual channel. Conclusion: These positive initial results should represent a boost to rapidly proceed with the development of even more versatile virtual learning solutions, given that the forecasts for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic are not encouraging.

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