Achieving a Working Balance Between Technology and Personal Contact Within a Classroom Environment

2011 ◽  
pp. 212-226
Author(s):  
Stephen Springer
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Counseling Theory

This chapter addresses the author’s model to assist faculty members in gaining a closer relationship with distance learning students. The model that will be discussed consists of a greeting, message, reminder, and conclusion (GMRC). The GMRC will provide concrete recommendations designed to lead the faculty through the four steps. Using these steps in writing and responding to electronic messages demonstrates to the distance learning student that in fact the faculty member is concerned with each learner and the learner’s specific questions and needs. It is a practical application of human relations theory and is based on ideas generated by counseling theory. In addition, the chapter will take the reader through issues and examples that will arise during the duration of discussions and exchange of information using electronic messages. It is the intent of the author to provide not simply a theoretical model, but a model that can be learned and applied immediately upon completion of reviewing the article.

scholarly journals Evaluation Teaching Performance of Faculty Members at the Faculty of Education, University of Sirte in Libya From the View Point of College Students as an Approach to Achieve Quality of University Education.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-159
Author(s):  
Amhaimmed Essa ◽  
Hassan Alshahopi
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Education ◽  
Teaching Performance ◽  
View Point ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Level Of Significance

The present study aims to evaluate the teaching performance of the faculty member at the Faculty of Education, University of Sirte, from the point of view of the students of the faculty as an approach to achieve quality in university education. The study uses the descriptive analytical method using the evaluation card of the faculty member in the fields of lecture planning, preparation, human relations, and evaluation methods. The study reached a number of conclusions, most notably: - Evaluation of the performance of the faculty member at the Faculty of Education is moderate, reflecting the dissatisfaction of students with this performance. - There are no statistically significant differences at the level of 0.01 due to the variables of gender, the semester, and the course in their responses about evaluating the performance of the faculty member. - There are statistically significant differences at the level of significance 0.05 for the variable of the scientific departments in the responses of students about the evaluation of the performance of the faculty member of the Faculty of Education in favor of the departments of (Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, and Biology).

REMOTE FORM OF EDUCATION, AS ONE OF THE METHODS OF IMPROVING MOTIVATION BY STUDENTS OF DISTANCE LEARNING

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
I. G. Kupnovytska ◽  
V. I. Klymenko ◽  
I. P. Fitkovska ◽  
S. M. Kalugina ◽  
R. I. Belehay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Technology System ◽  
Course Work ◽  
E Learning ◽  
On Line ◽  
Video And Audio

The development of a modern e-learning system promotes the active introduction of distance education. The organization of a mixed form of education at the department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy involves an education during the session and using the distance contact between faculty and students during the intersessional period. The information technology system of distance learning is provided by personal computers, video and audio equipment. The web-site of the department presents a set of teaching materials, including curriculas, work programs, lecture notes, test assignments, situational tasks, control and individual course work. Distance learning is supplemented with new teaching materials: web lectures, e-learning textbooks and manuals. Lectures are delivered by faculty members in the form of video conferences or webinars. Consultations are conducted in the on-line mode each week at a certain time by the teachers of the department according to the schedule. The website of the department presents methods for implementing practical skills, video stories of individual urgent states on the pathology of internal organs, demonstrates sets of medicines for seven types of first aid kits to improve the students' knowledge and skills, and to successfully pass the practical part of the state certification of graduates from the discipline "Clinical pharmacy".

A Mother-Scholar During COVID-19

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042097875
Author(s):  
Van Lac
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Junior Faculty Member ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Qualitative Researcher ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Emergent Literature

This poem highlights the current challenges and the lived realities of a mother-scholar during COVID-19. As a mother of two young children, the author details how the global pandemic has thrown her life into chaos as she attempts to provide support to her children with distance learning while also fulfilling her duties with teaching, research, and service as a junior faculty member on the tenure-track. Reinforcing the emergent literature on the lack of research productivity during this pandemic for mother-scholars, the author as a qualitative researcher illuminates this exact challenge in her poem.

scholarly journals Using interactive technologies and distance learning in sustainable education

2021 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 07003
Author(s):  
Anna Rybakova ◽  
Aleksandra Shcheglova ◽  
Denis Bogatov ◽  
Liudmila Alieva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Interactive Technologies ◽  
Sustainable Education ◽  
The Impact

This paper focuses on the use of interactive technologies and distance learning in sustainable education. It discusses how remote learning technologies can positively influence students’ learning and entry in sustainable education. The paper looks at the use of distance learning in higher education as a means to help students in the built environment and its use within the education system. It studies and expands the theoretical research on the benefits of distance learning, where the study is remote and there is no personal contact with staff or students, and examines the impact of distance learning on the student’s learning experience. It also proposes and evaluates potential solutions to overcome the barriers to learning in the built environment and create successful virtual learning communities, recognising that such improvements must be reconciled with the primary benefits identified. The paper provides an overview of sustainable distance learning within higher education and discusses the differences between learning outside the structural environment of a profession, what it means for the student’s learning experience and the potential to overcome barriers to distance learning. This is a very timely topic in the times of COVID-10 pandemic. Lockdowns of the economy and social life impacted all spheres of education with schools and universities closed for long periods of time and all teaching moved to online and distance mode. However, coronavirus pandemic also brought the digital surge in the system of education, including the sustainable education. All these innovations might stay after the pandemic and help the education to evolve and to embrace more novel trends and technologies.

Recommendations to Improve Education for Students with Autism through Distance Learning Strategies and Assistive Technologies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Dr. Dalliah Alkhoui
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Students With Autism

The COVID-19 pandemic has created new educational challenges and presented new opportunities for educators and students with learning disabilities, especially due to the increased awareness and focus on inclusive education. While extensive research has been done on effective strategies for teaching students with autism in an inclusive classroom environment, there is minimal research conducted on strategies for distance learning education for students with autism. This group is at a higher risk of being excluded from online education compared to their peers who have no learning difficulties. Recommended strategies for enhancing effective online education for students with autism include strategies for developing instructional materials. Another is collaborative engagements with all stakeholders to develop an understanding of each student’s strengths and weaknesses. The other is the provision of teacher training and continuous professional development. Next up is developing strategies for creating effective home-based learning environments such as providing all the required infrastructure for online learning. Finally, are strategies for instructional delivery such as the use of effective assistive technologies such as Zoom, collaboration with caregivers, and ensuring the active engagement of the students during instruction delivery.

THEORETICAL DEFINITIONS FOR AUXILIARY CONCEPTS OF VARIOUS LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-31
Author(s):  
Valentin Karpovich
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Levels Of Abstraction ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Logical Constraints

Theoretical knowledge may contain various levels of abstraction represented by logical constructions from the observed characteristics of objects from the subject area of the theory. The degree of abstractness can be de-scribed by the complexity of the structures obtained from the initial observational terms. Such auxiliary construc-tions are characterized as explicit or implicitdefinitions of theoretical concepts in terms of observational. One of the techniques for constructing such definitions is the operationalization of abstractions by a system of reduction sentences. In this case a theoretical concept is characterized as “open” and plays a role of logical and methodo-logical constraints for expanding the possible connections of the theoretical model with the help of concepts from the domain of intended practical application.

An American Perspective of Ethical Misconduct in ODLS

2011 ◽  
pp. 216-229
Author(s):  
Chi Lo Lim
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
American University ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
Ethical Misconduct ◽  
Open And Distance Learning ◽  
Appeals Process

Open and distance learning systems (ODLS) brought about immeasurable advancement in the delivery of education. Albeit all the benefits ODLS offers, there are some issues that need to be addressed. One of the most prevalent issues is the problem of persistent academic dishonesty. Much research effort has been devoted to explain why students commit acts of dishonesty, but there is limited research done on why faculty members do not take on a stronger position against it. This chapter offers cases of ODLS misconducts at an American University, the process that faculty members took to document academic dishonesty, the appeals process used by students, and the consequences of dishonesty. This chapter provides insights from faculty faced with dishonesty. It also addresses what administrators should do to support their faculty in curbing dishonesty in their institutions.

Administrative Interlude

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Fish
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
The State ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Independent Contractors ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

But you can’t do it in a vacuum. And although academics would be reluctant to admit it, the conditions that make what they do possible are established and maintained by administrators. When I was a dean, the question I was most often asked by faculty members was, “Why do administrators make so much more money than we do?” The answer I gave was simple: administrators work harder, they have more work to do, and they actually do it. At the end of my tenure as dean, I spoke to some administrators who had been on the job for a short enough time to be able still to remember what it was like to be a faculty member and what thoughts they had then about the work they did now. One said that she had come to realize how narcissistic academics are: an academic, she mused, is focused entirely on the intellectual stock market and watches its rises and falls with an anxious and selfregarding eye. As an academic, you’re trying to get ahead; as an administrator, you’re trying “to make things happen for other people”; you’re “not advancing your own profile, but advancing the institution, and you’re more service oriented.” A second new administrator reported that he finds faculty members “unbelievably parochial, selfish, and selfindulgent.” They believe that their time is their own even when someone else is paying for it. They say things like “I don’t get paid for the summer.” They believe that they deserve everything and that if they are ever denied anything, it could only be because an evil administrator has committed a great injustice. Although they are employees of the university (and in public universities, of the state), they consider themselves independent contractors engaged fitfully in free-lance piecework. They have no idea of how comfortable a life they lead. Neither, said a third administrator recently up from the ranks, do they have any idea of how the university operates. They seem proud of their parochialism and boast of their inability to access the many systems that hold the enterprise together.

scholarly journals Perception towards quality and effectiveness of social work education through open and distance learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bishnu Mohan Dash
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Open And Distance Learning ◽  
School Of Social Work ◽  
Work Education

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the perception of the students towards the quality and effectiveness of social work education offered by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) through open and distance learning (ODL). Design/methodology/approach The sample size consisted of 150 students, 15 academic counsellors engaged in either teaching or development sectors, or faculty members of School of Social Work of IGNOU. The methods of data collection included interviews and content analysis. Interview schedule for students, interview guide for academic counsellors and interview guide for faculty members were used. Findings The study centres were allotted as per student’s choice. Students were satisfied with the counsellors because of their support, availability, contact, accessibility and assisting the students to clearing their doubts. The study found that the student’s attendance in counselling sessions was found to be negligible, even a large number of respondents were not aware of the ODL system. The study also shows that students face lots of problem with regard to their field work supervision and other components of field work as were also neglected. Practical implications The findings of the study are extremely relevant for formulating necessary guidelines for improving the social work education through ODL mode. The study recommends revision of course materials translated in Hindi language, holding of individual and group conferences regularly as well as proper evaluation of field work reports. Originality/value This is first such study conducted in India to examine the effectiveness of social work education through ODL.

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