A Strategy to Expand the University Education Paradigm

2011 ◽  
pp. 2840-2851
Author(s):  
Richard Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Education ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Education ◽  
Online Portal ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
Faculty Developer ◽  
The University ◽  
Traditional Class ◽  
Delivery Approach

To date most online content and experiences have been packaged in a traditional “class” format and delivered using a web site posted on a provider’s server. This chapter suggests a slight deviation from this approach for packaging and delivering Internet education. It suggests a look beyond the “class” delivery approach. The premise for this strategy is the belief that the greatest strength of the Internet for education may lie in delivery of class “components,” not classes, themselves. These online components can be used to supplement and add value to the traditional class experience, not replace it. The strategy proposes that the university provide, sponsor, administer and maintain an automated online portal to post and sell faculty-created material. An “e-store” selling products developed by the university’s faculty members. It is hoped that universities will explore this idea to develop new ways of packaging and delivering education that better reward the faculty developer, help pay for the service and also add “value” to the education experience.

A Strategy to Expand the University Education Paradigm

2011 ◽  
pp. 235-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Education ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Education ◽  
Online Portal ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
Faculty Developer ◽  
The University ◽  
Traditional Class ◽  
Delivery Approach

To date most online content and experiences have been packaged in a traditional “class” format and delivered using a web site posted on a provider’s server. This chapter suggests a slight deviation from this approach for packaging and delivering Internet education. It suggests a look beyond the “class” delivery approach. The premise for this strategy is the belief that the greatest strength of the Internet for education may lie in delivery of class “components,” not classes, themselves. These online components can be used to supplement and add value to the traditional class experience, not replace it. The strategy proposes that the university provide, sponsor, administer and maintain an automated online portal to post and sell faculty-created material. An “e-store” selling products developed by the university’s faculty members. It is hoped that universities will explore this idea to develop new ways of packaging and delivering education that better reward the faculty developer, help pay for the service and also add “value” to the education experience.

WORK-BASED LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: EXPERIENCE AND CHALLENGES OF LEARNERS, WORKPLACES AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Roosipõld ◽  
Krista Loogma ◽  
Mare Kurvits ◽  
Kristina Murtazin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Constructivist Learning Theory ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
Restaurant Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Constructivist Learning

In recent years, providing higher education in the form of work-based learning has become more important in the higher education (HE) policy and practice almost in all EU countries. Work-based learning (WBL) in HE should support the development of competences of self-guided learners and adjust the university education better to the needs of the workplace. The study is based on two pilot projects of WBL in HE in Estonia: Tourism and Restaurant Management professional HE programme and the master’s programme in Business Information Technology. The model of integrative pedagogy, based on the social-constructivist learning theory, is taken as a theoretical foundation for the study. A qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with the target groups. The data analysis used a horizontal analysis to find cross-cutting themes and identify patterns of actions and connections. It appears, that the challenge for HE is to create better cooperation among stakeholders; the challenge for workplaces is connected with better involvement of students; the challenge for students is to take more initiative and responsibility in communication with workplaces.

scholarly journals The reality of the use of postgraduate students in the Faculty of Education Damascus University for E- mail in education

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasreen Abdel - Ilah Zahra
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Education ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Network Problems ◽  
Email Address ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Descriptive Method

The study was used to study the reality of the use of postgraduate students for e- mail. The descriptive descriptive method was used. The questionnaire was used as a tool for study، which averaged 1.99 and a standard deviation of 0.61. It was applied to 45 students from post- Different The results showed that postgraduate students have a desire to use e- mail in university education and to communicate with colleagues and faculty members. However، there are obstacles to their use. The faculty members do not encourage students to use e- mail، lack e- mail skills، Access to the internet laboratory at the college، the reluctance of faculty members to give their email address to students، network problems (slow) In the light of the results، a set of recommendations and proposals were presented to activate the use of e- mail in university education، especially among postgraduate students in the Faculty of Education and various Syrian and Arab universities

Acercamientos a la comprensión de la vocación pedagógica en la experiencia de cursar el primer año de estudio en educación superior

2014 ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Antonio Freire Hermosilla ◽  
Nelson Rodríguez Arratia ◽  
Pablo Solórzano Marchant
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
University Education ◽  
First Year ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University

Resumen El artículo trata sobre la articulación de sentido en los estudiantes de las carreras de pedagogía que cursan su primer año. El propósito fue conocer cómo ellos fueron otorgando significados y sentidos en la interacción, asumiendo sus interpretaciones y pre-comprensión social sobre la profesión docente. Los fundamentos teóricos nacen desde el análisis actancial (A. Greimas) y el análisis segundo hermenéutico (P. Ricoeur). Estudio de tipo cualitativo, exploratorio, su recolección de datos fue producto de Entrevistas en profundidad y Focus Group. Pese de emerger 5 ejes relevantes, uno de éstos, la ‘vocación’ arrojó una serie de resultados, distinguiéndose como una actitud interpretativa de disposición personal para enfrentarse a cualquier dificultad en la profesión, salvando las dificultades y oportunidades en las  narrativas personales. Palabras clave: Representaciones sociales, narrativas, experiencia universitaria, vocación, profesión docente. APPROACHES TO UNDERSTAND THE TEACHING VOCATION IN THE FIRST YEAR COURSE OF STUDY IN the university EDUCATION EXPERIENCE Abstract This article is about the articulation of sense in students of pedagogic programs who are in their first year. The purpose was to know how they were giving meanings and senses in the interaction, incorporating their interpretations and social pre-understanding about the Teaching profession. The theoretical foundations grow from the actantial analysis (A. Greimas) and the hermeneutic second analysis (P. Ricoeur). Study of a qualitative and exploratory kind; its data collection was product of deep interviews and focus group. Even though 5 relevant cores emerge, one of them, the “vocation” showed several results, distinguishing as an interpretative attitude of personal disposition to face any difficulty in the profession, wading the complexities and opportunities in the personal narratives. Key Words: Social representations, narratives, university experience, vocation, teaching profession.

The Academic Vocation

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Schwehn
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
The United States ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Education ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
Number Of Classes

In this chapter, I shall try to advance our thinking about college and university education in the United States through a critical study of contemporary conceptions of the academic vocation. Current reflection upon the state of higher learning in America makes this task at once more urgent and more difficult than it has ever been since the rise of the modern research university. Consider, for example, former Harvard President Derek Bok’s 1986–87 report to the Harvard Board of Overseers. On the one hand, Bok repeatedly insists that universities are obliged to help students learn how to lead ethical, fulfilling lives. On the other hand, he admits that faculty are ill-equipped to help the university discharge this obligation. “Professors,” Bok writes, “. . . are trained to transmit knowledge and skills within their chosen discipline, not to help students become more mature, morally perceptive human beings.” Notice Bok’s assumptions. Teaching history or chemistry or mathematics or literature has little or nothing to do with forming students’ characters. Faculty members must therefore be exhorted, cajoled, or otherwise maneuvered to undertake this latter endeavor in addition to teaching their chosen disciplines. The pursuit of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue are, for Bok at least, utterly discrete activities. To complicate matters still further, the Harvard faculty, together with most faculty members at other modern research universities, would very probably resist the notion that their principal vocational obligation is, as Bok suggested, to transmit the knowledge and skills of their disciplines. They believe that their calling primarily involves making or advancing knowledge, not transmitting it. How else could we explain the familiar academic lament “Because this is a terribly busy semester for me, I do not have any time to do my own work”? Among all occupational groups other than the professoriate, such a complaint, voiced under conditions of intensive labor, is inconceivable. Among university faculty members, it is expected. Never mind the number of classes taught, courses prepared, papers graded, and committees convened.

scholarly journals Training Needs in Light of the Degree of Awareness of Modern Teaching Strategies and Their Application in the Tertiary Level during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
AbdulAziz R. Alamro
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Education ◽  
Academic Rank ◽  
The University ◽  
Five Axis

This study aimed to evaluate modern teaching methods applied by the staff at the University of Hail during the COVID-19 pandemic to identify the most important causes, needs, and barriers from their perspective. Also, the study aimed to reveal individual differences (gender, academic rank, or experience) of statistical significance in the staff’s degree of use. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used descriptive analysis on a sample of 164 faculty members. The researcher designed a five-axis questionnaire. The results indicated the importance of e-training when using modern teaching methods. Also, it was clear that the research sample uses MTM to some extent, and the use of modern teaching strategies was found to be moderate. Gender, academic rank, years of experience in the field of university education, and academic specialization did not affect training needs. In addition, the results showed that the most important reason for using MTM during the COVID-19 pandemic was “Mastery of how to use it.”

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