scholarly journals CONSEQUENCES OF COVID-19 IN HIGHER EDUCATION. ONLINE OR PRESENTIAL TEACHING?

2021 ◽  
pp. 275-288
Author(s):  
Ana Medina López ◽  
María Luisa Delgado Jalón ◽  
Ángeles Cámara Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
University Education ◽  
Online Evaluation ◽  
Formative Stage ◽  
University Life ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

The coronavirus crisis has led to a succession of urgent changes in the field of university education. At Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), during the first half of 2020, teaching was adapted to the online modality, learning methodologies were transformed and online evaluation was implemented. The university already had a digital platform, although the change had to deal with certain obstacles as some professors and/or students lacked the adequate technological means or did not have the necessary digital skills to abruptly adapt to the new context. When facing next academic year planning, the 2020-21, in the specific case of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences (FCJS), which hosts 57% of the total number of students at the URJC, it was necessary to draw the new scenario in which it was decided to return to the classrooms according to a hybrid system. Teachers and students have noted the importance of classroom teaching due to advantages such as the richness of the study environment and university life with all its implications. Given the diversity of the degrees taught at the FCJS, we conclude that online teaching enables interaction between teacher and student but limits the development of certain skills of students in key aspects of this formative stage. Resumen La crisis del coronavirus en el ámbito de la educación universitaria ha dado lugar a una sucesión de cambios urgentes en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC). Durante la primera mitad del 2020 se adaptó la docencia a la modalidad online, se transformaron las metodologías docentes y se llevó a cabo la evaluación online. La universidad contaba ya con una plataforma digital, aunque el cambio no estuvo exento de obstáculos ya que algunos profesores y/o alumnos carecían de medios tecnológicos adecuados o bien no contaban con las habilidades digitales necesarias para adaptarse de forma abrupta al nuevo contexto. Para afrontar el siguiente curso 2020-21, en el caso concreto de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales (FCJS), que acoge al 57% del total de estudiantes de la URJC, hubo que planificar el nuevo escenario en el que se optó por el regreso a las aulas según un sistema híbrido. Docentes y estudiantes han constatado la importancia de la docencia presencial por ventajas tales como la riqueza del entorno de estudio y la vida universitaria, con todas sus implicaciones. Dada la diversidad de los grados que se imparten en la FCJS, concluimos que la docencia online posibilita la interacción entre docente y estudiante, pero limita el desarrollo de ciertas habilidades de los estudiantes en aspectos clave propios de esta etapa formativa.

scholarly journals Innovation in Web-Enhanced Learning

2011 ◽  
pp. 1197-1203
Author(s):  
Jane E. Klobas ◽  
Stefano Renzi
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
University Education ◽  
Virtual Universities ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Ict Infrastructure ◽  
The University ◽  
Remote Classrooms ◽  
Enhanced Learning ◽  
The Web

While virtual universities and remote classrooms have captured the headlines, there has been a quiet revolution in university education. Around the globe, the information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure needed to support Web-enhanced learning (WEL) is well established, and the Internet and the World Wide Web (the Web) are being used by teachers and students in traditional universities in ways that complement and enhance traditional classroom-based learning (Observatory of Borderless Education, 2002). The Web is most frequently used by traditional universities to provide access to resources—as a substitute for, or complement to, notice boards, distribution of handouts, and use of the library (Collis & Van der Wende, 2002). Therefore, most of the change has been incremental rather than transformational. Adoption of WEL has yet to meet its potential—some would say the imperative (Bates, 2000; Rudestam & Schoenholtz- Read, 2002)—to change the nature of learning at university and to transform the university itself.

scholarly journals STUDY OF MOTIVATION TYPES OF ENGLISH-MAJORING STUDENTS AND DEMOTIVATING FACTORS - IN THE CONTEXT OF NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA, ERDENET SCHOOL

2020 ◽  
pp. 083
Author(s):  
Solongo Shagdarsuren ◽  
Ulambayar Batchuluun ◽  
Daniel Lindbergh Lang
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Credit Hours ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
National University ◽  
English Learning Motivation ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Learning English

A decline in number of credit hours of English courses for English-majoring students at National University of Mongolia is forcing teachers and students to focus on how to learn English more effectively and what factors would affect that process within credit hours allowed at the university. However, the English teaching class hours in Mongolian secondary schools have been increasing for the last few years, due to the interest in learning English as a foreign language, and resulting in a growth in the demand for English teachers. This study has a goal to investigate into motivation of English-majoring students towards learning English and the factors affecting them to be demotivated. Twenty students studying English as a major at National University of Mongolia, Erdenet School completed the research questionnaire  which intended to discover English learning motivation through 12 items and attended focus group interview with 5 questions to find internal and external demotivating factors in 2019-2020 academic year. The students had instrumental orientation and demonstrated a strong desire to learn English. Furthermore, they were demotivated by their teachers’ and classmates’ attitudes and living conditions. The researchers suggested some recommendations based on the study findings. 

scholarly journals Access to University Studies: Implementing and Evaluating Multi-point Videoconferencing

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Keast
Keyword(s):  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Mode Of Delivery ◽  
University Education ◽  
Geographic Barrier ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Primary Mode ◽  
Aboriginal Students ◽  
University Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

A formidable geographic barrier exists in Canada for institutions wishing to provide opportunities for university education but serving clients and communities in remote regions of a province. In early September l995, the University of Alberta, Fairview College, and Kayas Cultural College embarked on a new partnership in offering a selected number of introductory Faculty of Arts courses in remote regions of northwestern Alberta. The primary mode of delivery was synchronized, multi-point videoconferencing (to as many as six sites), with all courses delivered from the University of Alberta campus. Slightly more than 70 percent of the student cohort for the first academic year were Aboriginal students. This paper provides a contextual background, describes the implementation, and reports the findings from a detailed formative evaluation of this partnership. The focus is primarily administrative in that questions addressed will relate to how such programs can be planned, implemented, managed, and monitored.

scholarly journals The Research-Teaching Nexus and Its Influence on Student Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Begoña Gros ◽  
Manel Viader ◽  
Albert Cornet ◽  
Miquel Martínez ◽  
Jordi Palés ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Systems ◽  
Learning Capacity ◽  
Shared Spaces ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Research Competences ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Year

The relationship between teaching and research in universities has been widely studied in the higher education literature, but no clear relationship between the two has been identified. Nevertheless, in recent years, research has been linked to a form of teaching that is more focused on the development of competences and learning capacity through enquiry and the generation of new knowledge. In this context, it is important for teachers and students to work together on the design of shared spaces for research and learning. This work examines the case of the University of Barcelona to analyse whether there is enough connection between research and teaching to allow students to experience this link and to successfully develop research competences. Teaching plans of the academic year 2018-19 were screened to identify research-related competences, the modules they appear in, and the descriptions of the evaluation systems. This information was compared to the students’ perceptions of the actual training they had received on these research competences. Results showed that teaching plans establish numerous competences related to research and generating new knowledge. However, students consider that this knowledge is not developed until the final year project.

Teaching interpreting online for the Translation and Interpreting Degree at the University of Vic

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-182
Author(s):  
María Perramon ◽  
Xus Ugarte
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

Abstract At a time when the advances in information and communication technologies meant that new approaches to virtual teaching and learning could be proposed, the teaching staff on the degree in Translation and Interpreting at UVic decided to offer part of the degree in distance learning mode. This learning mode was launched in the 2001–2002 academic year, with optional face-to-face teaching sessions some Saturdays and coexisted with the traditional face-to-face courses. During the first years, the fourth-year interpreting specialisation subjects were not taught online for technical and pedagogical reasons. Since the 2014-2015 academic year, we also teach these subjects online. The challenge that we face starting the 2017-2018 academic year is twofold: 1. To adapt the online teaching of interpreting subjects to groups with a high number of students in the new Inter-university Degree in Translation, Interpreting and Applied Languages jointly offered by the University of Vic and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). 2. To adapt the contents and methodology of interpreting subjects to changes in professional practice: telephone and videoconference interpreting, especially in liaison interpreting. In our paper, we will show some online teaching resources, as well as several online tools which we use in our courses.

scholarly journals The impact of the endowment on photovoltaic energy to support Palestinian university education: A maqasid jurisprudential View: أثر الوقف على الطاقة الشمسيّة الكهروضوئية في دعم التعليم الجامعي الفلسطيني: رؤية فقهية مقاصدية

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 128-109
Author(s):  
Mohammad Motlaq Assaf, Mohammad Saied Khaseeb Mohammad Motlaq Assaf, Mohammad Saied Khaseeb
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
University Education ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Photovoltaic Energy ◽  
University Life ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Palestinian Universities ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This study aims at providing the influence of the endowment on solar energy. And its reflection on the scientific university life. Also it aims at supporting the university education in Palestine by supporting new ideas to support the scientific research's by clarifying the legal texts, according to university situations to reduce deficit value in Palestinian universities. The electrical energy is considered the main columns of the environmental and civilization progress. As it's mainly connected to the instruments and equipment that make life easier. These instruments burn fuel that leads to harmful and dangerous effects on environment. During scientific research'. scientists found out that they can convert solar energy into Photovoltaic energy that doesn't need to burn fuel to be generated. This saves money as well as building new cultures to help in modernising the world. The abstract reach's to great likeness of the use of the endowment to serve the generated solar system. It's mainly a good application for the Islamic legal services on a solid ground. And it's related to environment protection and to saving money. So the legal endowment is able to solve problems of the continuous increasing cost of traditional power components.

scholarly journals UNIVERSITY ISSUE IN THE RESEARCH FIELD OF DOMESTIC PROFESSORS AT THE BORDER OF THE XIX ­ XX CENTURIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
V. MOKLYAK ◽  
Yu. MOSKALENKO
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Research Field ◽  
University Education ◽  
University Professors ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Independent University

It is natural for scientists, public figures, university professors and other higher education institutions, trustees of educa-tional districts, ministers of public education, statesmen, etc. to show interest in the so-called “university issue” in the conditions of formation and development of domestic university education in the XIX – the early XX century. Particularly heated discussions on this problem arise at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the activities of universities were regulatedby the reactionary statute of 1884. Many well-known progressives (V. Vernadskyi, M. Pyrohov, I. Sechenov, K. Timiriaziev, Ye. Tru-betskoi, S. Trubetskoi, P. Fortunatov, O. Shvarts and others) advocated the expansion of university rights, and the idea of an au-tonomous independent university became key. The position of supporters of the independence of universities was manifested in the relevant appeals. Thus, in 1899, ten professors submitted a note to the Minister of Education, which referred to the humiliating role of teachers, defined by regula-tions. In 1905, 342 scholars prepared for publication in the journal “Herald of Europe” a special document “Note on the needs of education”, which spoke about the progress of scientific progress through the efforts of domestic scientists and the inappro-priate attitude of the authorities to such achievements. Numerous publications show interest in the university issue. For example, O. Posnikov, V. Sobolevskyi, O. Chuprov substantiate the effectiveness of university autonomy in the columns of the periodical “Russian Gazette”. K. Timiriaziev in his own collection of articles “Science and Democracy” advocates the principle of academic freedom. P. Struve in the preface to O. Heorhiievskyi’s book “A Brief Essay on Government Measures and Predictions Against Student Riots” reflects on human rights violations in universities, the oppression of the rights of teachers and students. V. Vernadskyi writes in the article “On the Professorial Congress” about the importance of creating an “Association for Achieving Academic Freedom and Improving the Conditions of Academic Life”. The study made it possible to state a great interest in the “university question” at the turn of the XIX–XX centuries. Note that this problem is related to the conceptual “idea of the university”, which is interpreted as a combination of the whole set of knowledge and ideas about the university: goals, objectives, principles, structure, functions, internal and external relations,place and role in society at a certain specific historical stage.

scholarly journals BUSINESS PLAN OF A UNIVERSITY PRESS TO THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1663-1670
Author(s):  
Kristina Kilova ◽  
Desislava Bakova ◽  
Nonka Mateva ◽  
Zhivko Peychev ◽  
Antoniya Yaneva
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Output ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Life ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Face ◽  
Access To Books ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Medical University

The creation of a University Press is a prerequisite for raising the reputation of the Medical University - Plovdiv. With its significant scientific output and the large number of students, it will represent the face of the University in front of the scientific communities and will be an important element of the national and international interuniversity communication. By documenting the individual qualities of the teachers, knowledge is preserved and its development is assisted, thus meeting the public demands. Without a developed publishing activity, it is difficult to evolve the creative potential of teachers and students. The University Press, on the one hand, is a real participant in the learning process, as it facilitates students' access to books as well as novelties in science. On the other hand, it is also a natural center of university life.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Outbreak: Insights about Teaching Tasks in a Chemical Engineering Laboratory

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Nogales-Delgado ◽  
Silvia Román Suero ◽  
José María Encinar Martín
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Virtual Tools ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Government ◽  
Online Library ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

Apart from the evident tragedy that the COVID-19 outbreak has meant regarding both personal and economic costs, the normal functioning of the academic year has been drastically altered at all educational levels. Regarding Spain, the state of alert implemented by the government from mid-March to June has affected traditional face-to-face sessions at universities, as they were forbidden and replaced by online lessons. The aim of this work was to explain our own experience during the COVID-19 outbreak in a chemical engineering laboratory at the University of Extremadura, concerning the university teaching and the final degree project follow-up, whose method of teaching was active and participatory, based on constructivism and focused on the student as the center of the learning process. Thus, the confinement affected both the teachers and students differently, depending on the degree of completion of their main tasks and their previous skills with computing and virtual tools, among other factors. The existence of an operating virtual campus and an online library has made the transition to total e-learning and telework easier for teachers and students.

scholarly journals TRAINING OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS-MUSICIANS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF INTERDISCIPLINARY MODELS OF FREE ARTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (190) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Alla Rastrygina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
University Education ◽  
Main Trend ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The University

The article highlights the problem of improving the training of future specialists-musicians through introducing an interdisciplinary model of Free Arts into educational process. This model differs fundamentally from the traditional, narrowly specialized approach to choosing a profession. Its implementation allows, along with the acquisition of professional competencies that constitute the essence and specifics of the profession, to build an individual trajectory of professional development of each student, based on his abilities, capabilities, needs, preferences in the number of trends of the chosen specialty, as well as to obtain such important for a present-day specialist qualities as critical thinking, responsibility, tolerance, sociability, ability to work in a team, respectful attitude to others, flexibility and adaptability in the labor market. A specific feature of professional art education according to Free Arts model, in contrast to the traditional one, is the possibility of combining the main direction of studies, (major), with the additional one, (minor), which differs from the main trend and is of certain interest for a student himself or herself. Being free from the authoritarian idea of ways of acquiring knowledge by students, this interdisciplinary model gives students an opportunity for independent construction of an individual trajectory of their personal professional development according to a personality choice. Based on the teacher's orientation towards students, flexible curriculum, broad disciplinary coverage and depth of subject study, interconnection of disciplines and freedom of choice of courses, the Free Arts model determines the solution of certain problems in the university education system, in particular, the crisis of disciplinary specialization; academicism and an excess of lectures; lack of partnership between teachers and students, detachment of theory from practice; inability of students to think critically and freely. The introduction of innovative educational programs for professional development of future specialists-musicians, who are targeted at student development and able to implement the Free Arts and Sciences model in the art educational space of universities, is one of the ways of successful reform of music education in Ukraine.

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