The Role of Technology in Improving Quality of Teaching in Higher Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 54-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet Thindwa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

Students are the future of any country. They are the leaders and entrepreneurs of tomorrow. If teaching quality is undermined, so is the country's overall education system, and therefore, so is a country's future. In this chapter, the role of technology in improving quality of teaching in higher education, which has been declining over the years internationally including in the US, is reviewed. Databases EBSCOhost and Academic Search Complete were employed in this review. Empirical studies have revealed that e-learning technologies such as Moodle improve teaching quality. Given the advancement in technology, institutions of higher learning the world over are challenged to embrace technology as a strategy to engage students and enhance learning.

The Role of Technology in Improving Quality of Teaching in Higher Education

2016 ◽  
pp. 207-227
Author(s):  
Harriet Thindwa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

Students are the future of any country. They are the leaders and entrepreneurs of tomorrow. If teaching quality is undermined, so is the country's overall education system, and therefore, so is a country's future. In this chapter, the role of technology in improving quality of teaching in higher education, which has been declining over the years internationally including in the US, is reviewed. Databases EBSCOhost and Academic Search Complete were employed in this review. Empirical studies have revealed that e-learning technologies such as Moodle improve teaching quality. Given the advancement in technology, institutions of higher learning the world over are challenged to embrace technology as a strategy to engage students and enhance learning.

scholarly journals Exploring predictors of instructional resilience during emergency remote teaching in higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Weidlich ◽  
Marco Kalz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Prior Experience ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractIn 2020, Higher Education institutions were pressed to swiftly implement online-based teaching. Among many challenges associated with this, lecturers in Higher Education needed to promptly and flexibly adapt their teaching to these circumstances. This investigation adopts a resilience framing in order to shed light on which specific challenges were associated with this sudden switch and what helped an international sample of Higher Education lecturers (N = 102) in coping with these challenges. Results suggest that Emergency Remote Teaching was indeed challenging and quality of teaching was impeded but these effects are more nuanced than expected. Lecturers displayed instructional resilience by maintaining teaching quality despite difficulties of Emergency Remote Teaching and our exploration of predictors shows that personality factors as well as prior experience may have supported them in this. Our findings may contribute to the emerging literature surrounding Emergency Remote Teaching and contributes a unique resilience perspective to the experiences of Higher Education lecturers.

scholarly journals Peran K.H. Saifuddin Zuhri Sebagai Menteri Agama Pada Masa Orde Lama (1962 – 1967)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-312
Author(s):  
Elya Faridah ◽  
Ajid Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Religious Books ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
High Level

This study deals with the role of KH. Saifuddin Zuhri as Minister of Religion using biographical approach by describing his passion in improving the quality of Islamic education, particularly the Islamic university. He plays a vital role in the development of Islamic universities, namely the State Islamic Institute (IAIN). IAIN is a center for high-level teaching and education activities for Muslim youth. During a period of leadership of KH Saifuddin Zuhri at the Ministry of Religious affair, he succeeded in inaugurating the IAIN at the provincial level by naming the universities according to figures from the region and 14 IAIN branches at the district level. / city. To support the improvement of the quality of teaching staff and infrastructure for higher education, K.H. Saifuddin Zuhri seeks to make a policy, namely by sending students to study abroad on scholarships, establishing a translation and publishing agency for the Qur'an, managing the distribution of religious books to schools and Islamic boarding schools. In addition, he also made policies to appoint honorary religious teachers and the equivalent of madrasa diplomas. For his efforts, IAIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta gave a sign of honor for a professor in the field of da'wah with the title "professor" to K.H. Saifuddin Zuhri.

scholarly journals Has e-Learning Delivered on its Promises? Expert Opinion on the Impact of e-Learning in Higher Education

1969 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Kanuka ◽  
Jennifer Kelland
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Canadian Higher Education ◽  
Education Leaders ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Higher Education Leaders ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of agreement among experts on the impact of e-learning technology in Canadian higher education learning experiences. Fourteen participants who are experts in e-learning in higher education agreed there are contentions about e-learning technologies in the following areas: (1) a platform for ideal speech; (2) greater opportunities for interactions; (3) the extent to which communities of learners can be created; (4) provision of a new kind of learning environment; (5) a platform for discussions; (6) demand for e-learning by students; (7) the degree to which the environment is equal and equitable; and (8) the quality of the learning experience. The findings of this study indicate that the value of e-learning requires further research before higher education leaders and teacher-practitioners are willing to incorporate them in teaching practices and policy documents.  

scholarly journals E-Teaching in Higher Education: An Essential Prerequisite for E-Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Guri-Rosenblit
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education ◽  
Essential Prerequisite

The discourse on the implementation of the digital technologies in higher education settings focuses mainly on students’ learning rather than on professors’ teaching. The little attention paid to the crucial role of teachers in online settings results in a restricted and moderate adaptation of the technologies in higher education worldwide. In most higher education institutions, the new technologies are used mainly for add-on functions and not for substituting face-to-face encounters or for an intensive web-enhanced teaching. This article starts with briefly explaining why most students, particularly at the undergraduate level, are unable and/or unwilling to study by themselves without expert teachers to guide their knowledge construction, discusses the problematics of digital literacy of teachers, examines the main reasons for the reluctance of many academics to utilize the technologies more fully in their teaching, and concludes by recommending some strategies for incorporating more fully the huge array of the technologies’ capabilities in higher education institutions. 

scholarly journals Making Learning Visible: Role of Parents in Enhancing the Quality of Teaching at Montessori Level

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farah Naz ◽  
Zoobia Parveen
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Classroom Guidance ◽  
Role Of Parents

The study is about parental involvement in quality of teaching at pre- education level (PG to Class2). The aim of this research was to explore the effect of parents’ role in the enhancement of quality of teaching at Montessori level. This research study was descriptive in nature. Parents and teachers of students studying in Lahore city were the target population of the study. Two hundred parents and one hundred students of PG to class 2, from ten public and ten private primary schools were sample of the study. The survey method was used for data collection. It has been found out that parents are facing challenges and difficulties in rearing of child in current era. Study has witnessed a long gap in students’ achievement due to less parents’ support in classroom guidance provided to their kids at preschool level. Findings of this study show that teaching quality and learning level of student is directly correlated with scales from the parental involvement. Evidence based research in this literature review indicated that those preschool approaches are more successful that have focus on role of parents along with the teacher.

Let's ask our students what really matters to them

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Cladera
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Teacher Evaluations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Teaching Characteristics ◽  
Examination Methods ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

PurposeStudents' feedback is of great importance to the development of knowledge about teaching in higher education. One of the main purposes for which this feedback is collected is teaching quality assessment, usually conducted through course and teacher evaluations completed at the end of the course. However, for improving students' perceptions of teaching quality, their prior expectations should be identified first and the aspects that they consider relevant for a “good teaching” should be found out. Moreover, obtaining feedback at the end of a course could not benefit the respondents themselves. This work analyses students' opinions about the importance of several aspects related to the quality of teaching in an undergraduate course.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire was administered to gather students' opinions about the importance of several aspects related to the quality of teaching in an undergraduate course. Differences in the mean score of each aspect depending on students' characteristics were also analyzed.FindingsThe teaching characteristics that students considered more important were lecturer enthusiasm, the organization of the lectures and materials, the examination methods and feedbacks, the interest and intellectual challenge of the course and the friendliness, interest and accessibility of the lecturer. Differences in the importance of the different aspects exist depending on gender, expected grade and prior interest in the subject.Originality/valueResults could help lecturers to do a better programming of the different features of the course and prepare the subject more effectively, which is likely to positively impact student satisfaction; student satisfaction, in turn, has been related to an improvement in students' performance.

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