Towards Effective Teaching in Project Management

2015 ◽  
pp. 168-182
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Student Feedback ◽  
It Management ◽  
It Project Management ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Core Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Management Students

As a typical IT management subject, IT project management has existed as a core subject in universities for a long period. Unlike other subjects, project management requires solid experience to fully understand its concepts and methodologies. Reluctantly, many academics often face the situation that their students lack such experience, and how to ensure the teaching/learning quality becomes an important issue to solve. This chapter first identifies some typical issues with project management students and the corresponding challenges to effective teaching. Some teaching methods are also introduced together with the sharing of the author's experience in applying them in class. The effectiveness of the methods is evaluated according to the teaching improvements in terms of student feedback and satisfaction statistics.

Towards Effective Teaching in Project Management

2016 ◽  
pp. 1611-1625
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Student Feedback ◽  
It Management ◽  
It Project Management ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Core Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Management Students

As a typical IT management subject, IT project management has existed as a core subject in universities for a long period. Unlike other subjects, project management requires solid experience to fully understand its concepts and methodologies. Reluctantly, many academics often face the situation that their students lack such experience, and how to ensure the teaching/learning quality becomes an important issue to solve. This chapter first identifies some typical issues with project management students and the corresponding challenges to effective teaching. Some teaching methods are also introduced together with the sharing of the author's experience in applying them in class. The effectiveness of the methods is evaluated according to the teaching improvements in terms of student feedback and satisfaction statistics.

Introducing Interactivity in Lecture to Improve its Efficacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sangeeta Maruti Gawali
Keyword(s):  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Interactive Teaching ◽  
Anonymous Questionnaire ◽  
Interactive Lectures ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Interactive Lecture ◽  
Participant Rating

Background: There are various ways by which learning is made more effective and active participation and attendance of the students can be increased. Interactive lectures are one of the important tools to achieve this. The aim of the present study is evaluating the efficacy of interactive teaching. Methods: Interactive lecture series were arranged followed by didactic lectures. At the end of each lecture feedback was taken by giving anonymous questionnaire from each participant. Rating of response was analyzed by ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ format in percentage. Results: 80-85% students reported interactive lectures are interesting, effective and should be followed regularly. Conclusion: Present study concludes that interactive lecture is an effective teaching learning tool which facilitates learners to think, feel and do.

Higher-Order Learning Outcomes in an Undergraduate IT Project Management Course

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Joseph Budu
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
It Project Management ◽  
It Project ◽  
Higher Order Learning

Achieving higher order learning outcomes may be normal in developed country higher-education institutions, but it may not so for most of those in developing countries with resource poverty which manifests in high student-teacher ratios for instance. Lecturers in developing countries tend to use less student-centered teaching methods which hamper the achievement of higher order learning outcomes. Unfortunately, this issue has been ignored in the general information systems education literature. This article therefore explores the relationship between teaching methods and the achievement of higher order learning outcomes by presenting and evaluating evidence of changes a lecturer made in delivering an undergraduate IT Project Management course over two academic years in a developing country context. Two lessons emerge. First, lecturers in developing country contexts should focus on turning out graduates with higher order thinking skills. Second, such educators should consider using contextually relevant teaching methods that lead to higher learning outcomes.

scholarly journals Developing Vocabulary Materials for Teaching Learning Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Fitriah Fitriah
Keyword(s):  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Students Success

Language instruction has five important components that they are students, a teacher, materials, teaching methods and evaluation. Teaching materials should help the students to learn or as a part of the class activities of instruction learning in the class. The materials should help the teacher and the students. Ideally, teaching materials will be tailored to the content in which they are being used, to the students in whose class they are being used, and the teacher. Teaching materials come in many shapes and sizes, but they all in common the ability to support students learning. So, teaching materials can support students learning and increase students’ success. Hence, instructional materials for effective teaching. The quality of those materials is a valuable skill that the teacher must be mastered. The materials chosen in teaching learning include textbook that extent to which a curriculum that will involve teacher made material, which content of additional activities and exercises, handouts, charts, review sheets, etc.

A Qur’anic Methodology for Integrating Knowledge and Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Sidek Bin Baba ◽  
Mohamad Johdi Salleh ◽  
Tareq M Zayed ◽  
Ridwan Harris
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
School Students ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Teacher Centered ◽  
Integrated Knowledge

Integrating knowledge and education has become a major issue in Malaysia in the context of globalization. This study develops a teacher-centered Qur’anic methodology based on the integration of acquired (‘aqlī) and revealed (naqlī) knowledge as regards content, as well as the integration of teachers’ role in a teaching-learning process designed to empower students to manage “self” and “system.” It further investigates the existing curriculum and institutional efforts to integrate these two types of knowledge, students’ understanding of the integrated knowledge and its learning process, as well as how the teachers and lecturers understand this integrated knowledge and apply it to their teaching methods. Data collected through interviews and surveys of participating school students and teachers, as well as university students and lecturers, revealed several issues that need to be addressed.

Die charismatische Lehrerpersönlichkeit und ihre phänomenologischen Fundamente

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 292-301
Author(s):  
Norbert Groeben
Keyword(s):  
Effective Teaching ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Teaching Literature ◽  
Education Theory ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
History Of

Abstract Even though it is widely agreed in education theory and psychology that the teacher’s charisma plays an essential role in teaching literature in school, the concept of charisma as a factor of effective teaching is usually applied only in the widest and most abstract sense. In scrutinizing the history of teaching methods, psychology, and literary theory in the second half of the 20th century, this paper identifies the cognitive and emotional aspects of reading literature that are prerequisite to charismatic teaching. Finally, it suggests that these aspects can be explained by drawing on phenomenological literary theory, i.e. that the notion of the teacher’s charisma can be founded in phenomenology.

Excellence in IT Project Management

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Michael Elliott ◽  
Ray Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Step Change ◽  
It Project Management ◽  
Technology Learning ◽  
Agile Methodology ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
It Project ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
Silver Bullet

With almost thirty years since the start of our quest to find Fred Brooks' magical “Silver Bullet” to slay our productivity horrors, and twenty years since the first Standish report on IT project success and failures, are we getting closer? This paper discusses and challenges current thinking on process improvement initiates to provide answers of how we can significantly improve IT project productivity and consider that to achieve a step change in improvement requires a different approach. Recent Standish research has highlighted the Agile Methodology as being particularly successful for the smaller IT project. However, what specifically is creating this improvement? Is it the process itself or is there something that the process enables? The hypothesis presented is that in order to create the step change improvement in IT project management delivery, we need to significantly improve the inter-personal skills of the whole IT project management team. The revolution for improved productivity will stem from challenging the typical career paths of technology learning to provide a much greater focus on the softer skills.

scholarly journals Beyond Broudy’s Triad—Infusing University Students with the Love of Poetry

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Mounir Ben Zid
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
University Students ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Class Session ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Esl Learners

In spite of the diverse schools of thought providing guidance for poetry teachers—such as the didactic, heuristic, or phyletic approaches—this myriad of teaching modes has failed to generate adequate student appreciation for poetry courses. The reason for this is teachers’ tendency to cling to the idea that one must choose a particular approach and find out the correct or fixed meaning. This study includes a recommendation for a major shift in teaching poetry that transforms each class session into a new learning rather than a teaching experience—one in which the instructor’s role is to inspire a passion and love for poetry in ESL learners. This teaching-learning style requires that teachers change from being omniscient sages to participants, co-explorers, and learners—a move from teaching methods to learning styles and a shift from encouraging the love of teachers to inspiring the love of poetry in university students.

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