scholarly journals Technology-enhanced feedback in higher education: Source-recipient relationships in a new dialogic feedback paradigm

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ameena Leah Payne
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
First Century ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Teacher Relationships ◽  
The Status ◽  
Learning Conversations ◽  
Dimensions Of Teaching

Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been required to abruptly move their education online in response to recent events. Prior to these challenging events, the twenty-first century was already bringing an increased emergence of new digital tools which have begun to profoundly change higher education.Technology has always existed as a disrupter. The danger is that rapid uptake to online maintains the status quo. This conceptual article will examine the shift from feedback as one-way transmission to two-way Socratic, sustainable learning conversations. It is widely recognised that students consistently report that feedback is provided sub-standardly in higher education. New paradigm approaches to feedback aim to utilise interrogative feedback and Socratic discussion to facilitate a change in output (e.g. feedback uptake). The objective of feedback is to advise, encourage and improve output. The article aims to explore the potential for technology to enhance relational dimensions of teaching practice. The intention is of this work is to serve as a clarion call for intentionally designed digital feedback tools and processes that move beyond technology as yet another means of domineered telling but to aim to empower and provide opportunities for students to respond.The key is to empower institutions and therefore academics to reap the transformative benefits of digital innovation and encourage Socratic, sustainable and dialogic feedback through re-examining the relational dimensions of tutor/teacher relationships.

Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Innovation, Adaptation, Preservation

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nannerl O. Keohane
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Status ◽  
Disruptive Change ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Over Time

Disruptive change is never easy for those who have helped construct the status quo. By definition, it undermines much that we take for granted and rely on, much that has evolved over time. It sometimes destroys things that are worth treasuring. This is why we fear it. But disruptive change also provides an opportunity for restructuring that can actually improve our institutions. Our task should be to adjust as nimbly as we can, taking advantage of new opportunities while we protect those aspects of traditional higher education that are of the greatest importance to our mission.

Dance and Gender

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Hard Data ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Funding Opportunities ◽  
Gender Impacts

Driven by exacting methods and hard data, this volume reveals gender dynamics within the dance world in the twenty-first century. It provides concrete evidence about how gender impacts the daily lives of dancers, choreographers, directors, educators, and students through surveys, interviews, analyses of data from institutional sources, and action research studies. Dancers, dance artists, and dance scholars from the United States, Australia, and Canada discuss equity in three areas: concert dance, the studio, and higher education. The chapters provide evidence of bias, stereotyping, and other behaviors that are often invisible to those involved, as well as to audiences. The contributors answer incisive questions about the role of gender in various aspects of the field, including physical expression and body image, classroom experiences and pedagogy, and performance and funding opportunities. The findings reveal how inequitable practices combined with societal pressures can create environments that hinder health, happiness, and success. At the same time, they highlight the individuals working to eliminate discrimination and open up new possibilities for expression and achievement in studios, choreography, performance venues, and institutions of higher education. The dance community can strive to eliminate discrimination, but first it must understand the status quo for gender in the dance world.

scholarly journals Surviving but not thriving: Comparing primary, vocational and higher education teachers’ experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Kovacs ◽  
Caroline Pulfrey ◽  
Emilie-Charlotte Monnier
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Online Distance Education ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Online Distance

AbstractIn this paper we examine the impacts of the global pandemic in 2020 on different levels of education system, particularly looking at the changes in teaching practice. The health emergency caused closure of schools, and online distance education became a temporary solution, creating discomfort for many teachers for whom this was the first time engaged with online education. In our research we investigated two important dimensions, namely, how technology was used and what the newfound distance meant in terms of the teacher-student relationship. The article offers insights into experiences of teaching from lockdown reported by 41 teachers at primary, vocational and higher education level in the region of Vaud, Switzerland. This comparative qualitative research has provided an opportunity for an in-depth analysis of the main similarities and differences at three distinctly different educational levels and a possibility to learn more about common coping practices in teaching. The study gives a contribution to a lack of comparative studies of teacher experiences at different educational levels. Results show two dimensions in handling the lockdown crisis: mastering the digital tools and the importance of student–teacher interaction. Whilst the interviewed teachers largely overcame the challenges of mastering digital tools, optimizing the quality interaction and ensuring the transactional presence online remained a problem. This indicates the importance of the social aspect in education at all levels, and implies that teacher support needs to expand beyond technical pedagogical knowledge of online distance education.

Mobile knowledge: driving a paradigm shift

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah West ◽  
Samantha Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Higher Education Pedagogy ◽  
The University ◽  
Current Paradigm

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to challenge higher education professors and institutions to consider their role and practice in light of the changing landscape of higher education. It draws attention to the substantial changes taking place in society due to the technological and related knowledge revolution and questions the value of the current paradigm of educational practice. Design/methodology/approach – This conceptual paper utilises a sociological lens to explore the future of higher education learning and teaching. It draws on a range of literature to focus on the concepts of mobile education and mobile knowledge and explores these concepts in relation to the role and function of the professor and the university and the implication for pedagogy, curriculum design and teaching practice. Findings – While changes in higher education are taking place, they are largely within the current paradigm. With knowledge freely available via technology, the university is no longer the primary holder of knowledge and students are less likely to engage in content delivery styles of education. It is time therefore to consider the shape of education in a new mobile knowledge paradigm. Originality/value – This paper draws on a range of existing literature from several fields to highlight the need for a new paradigm in higher education pedagogy.

scholarly journals The use of digital tools in foreign language training of students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Л.А. Метелькова ◽  
Е.Г. Хрисанова ◽  
Е.В. Фролова
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Current State

Актуальность исследования обусловлена многими факторами. Во-первых, в настоящее время цифровые инструменты начинают занимать значительное место в процессе обучения разным дисциплинам как в системе среднего, так и высшего образования. Во-вторых, их использование обусловлено не простым желанием педагога разнообразить занятие или сделать его более эффективным, а само состояние общества делает их внедрение в образовательный процесс необходимым и иногда, единственно возможным. Цель статьи заключается в обосновании эффективности использования современных цифровых инструментов в иноязычной подготовке обучающихся. Авторами проанализировано современное состояние исследуемой проблемы в отечественной и зарубежной педагогике и методике обучения иностранным языкам. Статья предназначена для учителей иностранных языков, а также студентов педагогических вузов, будущих учителей, для использования во время педагогической практики и в профессиональной деятельности. The relevance of the study is due to many factors. Firstly, nowadays digital tools are beginning to take a significant place in the learning process in various disciplines, both in the system of secondary and higher education. Secondly, their use is not due to a simple desire of the teacher to diversify the lesson or make it more effective, but the very state of society makes their introduction into the educational process necessary and, sometimes, the only possible one. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the effectiveness of the use of modern digital tools in foreign language training of students. The author analyzed the current state of the problem under study in domestic and foreign pedagogy and methods of teaching foreign languages. The article is intended for teachers of foreign languages, as well as students of pedagogical universities, future teachers, for use during teaching practice and professional activity.

Muslims in the Twenty-First Century University

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-31
Author(s):  
Alison Scott-Baumann ◽  
Mathew Guest ◽  
Shuruq Naguib ◽  
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor ◽  
Aisha Phoenix
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Status ◽  
University College London ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University ◽  
Extended Discussion

Chapter 1 sets out the ways in which the status and identities of Muslims are caught up in the changing lives of universities. It begins with an account of the segregated seating controversy at University College London in 2013, illustrating how wider issues of power and cultural identity are evoked when the status of Islam within universities becomes the subject of public debate. This picture is developed and contextualized via an extended discussion of the nature of universities, set out as a series of contested histories, each of which privileges particular values and instates specific boundaries of cultural or academic legitimacy. Models considered are the university as public, as neoliberal, as a source of inclusion and exclusion, as postcolonial, and as a site of heightened risk. The chapter’s central aim is to consider how these strands contribute to the heightened ‘othering’ of Islam within ‘Western’ higher education.

Teaching practice reform on color courses in colleges and universities

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092110020
Author(s):  
Sun Haozhang ◽  
Wang Feng
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Complete System ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Teaching Reform ◽  
The Status ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Fundamental Education ◽  
Integration Of Disciplines ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

Taking professional emphasis of disciplines as the benchmark, this paper takes diversified integration of disciplines as the train of thought and direction of teaching reform in higher education, and selects the specific color teaching in colleges and universities as its research object. Based on the analysis of the status and problems of color courses and the exploratory practice on the reform of color teaching in higher education, this paper, promoting the formation of an effective and complete system of education as the goal, puts forward ideas and methods on the teaching reform of color courses in colleges and universities, and makes an in-depth study and discussion on teaching from the guiding ideology, teaching contents and teaching methods. It is expected to provide valuable references for solving the problem of teaching’s incompatible with professional needs in colleges and universities and forming an effective and complete system of professional fundamental education.

Value Addition Through Higher Education: With Special Reference To Skill Development In North East India

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 341-348
Author(s):  
Dr. Mini Jain ◽  
Dr. Mini Jain
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Value Addition ◽  
Quality Initiatives ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Skilled Manpower ◽  
The Status

In India, higher education is a need of hour. The excellence of Higher Edification decides the production of skilled manpower to the nation. Indian education system significantly teaching has not been tested too economical to form youths of our country employable in line with the requirement of job market. Despite the rise in range of establishments at primary, secondary and tertiary level our young educated folks don't seem to be capable of being used and recovering job opportunities. Reason being they need not non-heritable such skills essential for demand of the duty market. The present study is aimed at analyzing the status of higher education institutions in terms of Infrastructure, various courses of the institute, quality Initiatives and skill development program offered by the Institutes, in the North-East India region, so as to see whether the Higher Educational Institutes of this region are in the process of gradually developing the skills of the students in attaining excellence. The paper also laid emphasis on the measures adopted by these institutes for quality improvement, and to find out their role in combating the adversity acclaimed in the region, since this region’s development is impeded by certain inherent difficulties However, this paper focuses attention on high quality education with special emphasis on higher education for forward linkages through value addition.

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