The Design and Redesign of an Online Socio-Constructivist Course on Engineering Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-62
Author(s):  
Mary Grammatikou ◽  
Nadia Sansone ◽  
Dimitris Pantazatos ◽  
Donatella Cesareni ◽  
Vasilis Maglaris
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Engineering Management ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Effective Learning

This chapter focuses on the design and redesign of an online engineering management course, based on a socio-constructivist approach. At first, the theoretical and contextual premises will be presented with a focus on the suggested teaching and learning methods to acquire domain-related knowledge and crucial skills and on the importance of learning scenario to support an effective learning design. After the background introduction, a user case will be described, focusing on the course online environment and its tools, on the proposed pedagogical strategies and above all, on how instructors can obtain and analyze useful educational data from various sources. Finally, some redesign recommendations will be provided to better use educational data for continuous course improvement.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF ONLINE TEACHING ON FACE-TO-FACE TEACHING PRACTICES

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma I. Scagnoli ◽  
Lydia P. Buki ◽  
Scott D. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Faculty Training ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Face To Face

The integration of online technologies in educational practice is rendering new opportunities for teaching and learning. It is known that instructors who have taught fully online courses have acquired new skills and have had the opportunity to implement novel pedagogical practices in the online environment. However, it is unclear whether direct exposure to fully online teaching facilitates the integration of technology in traditional classrooms. This qualitative investigation examined the transfer of four experienced faculty members’ pedagogical practices from online to face-to-face teaching. Results of this case study show that (a) the instructors’ online teaching experience influenced their perceptions and understanding of online pedagogical strategies, and (b) the transfer of pedagogical strategies back to the classroom is a complex process influenced by the instructors’ teaching style, satisfaction with working in the online environment, and the similarity of content and context between online and face-to-face courses. These findings have the potential to inform innovations in faculty training and development and to promote further research in this area.

scholarly journals Digitalized Versus Interpreted Biology Instructions for Deaf Learners: Implications for a Technosociety

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Olufemi T. Adigun ◽  
Dumisani R. Nzima
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Inclusive Society ◽  
Digital Components ◽  
Effective Teaching And Learning

Deaf learners have strived to enrol in science-related subjects but barriers towards effective teaching and learning have contributed to low performances in science-related subjects. Although previous studies have affirmed that learners’ attitude towards scientific instructions and pedagogical strategies used by science teachers creates barriers to effective learning and expected learning outcomes, but gaps still exist in the use of digital components in learning outcomes of deaf learners. Therefore, this study, determined the moderating effects of onset of deafness on the attitudes of deaf learners towards Biology in Ibadan, Nigeria. Twenty-seven deaf learners were exposed to an 8-week digitalized and interpreted Biology instructions. Data were collected using the Biology Achievement Test before and after the treatment sessions. The data generated were analysed using the Analysis of Variance at p < 0.05. The results revealed that deaf learners in the digital Biology class performed better than their peers in the interpreted Biology instructions. Variations in the attitude toward Biology based on onset of hearing loss were observed. Based on the findings, recommendations were made to adequately prepare the deaf for a technologically-driven inclusive society.

scholarly journals Analisis Metode Pembelajaran di Sekolah Dasar

FONDATIA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-85
Author(s):  
Ayu Anjani ◽  
Gita Harnum Syapitri ◽  
Rifka Izatul Lutfia
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
The Future

This study aims to determine the learning methods used in elementary schools. The learning method used must be adapted to the learning material and learning media that will be used in the teaching and learning process. With the learning method, it is expected that the teaching and learning process can be carried out well so that it can improve the quality and quantity of students in the future. Effective learning methods can facilitate the implementation of the learning process and facilitate students in absorbing the material conveyed by the instructor.

Dialogue Pedagogical Strategies Perceived to Enhance Online Interaction

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Dogbey ◽  
Alex Kumi-Yeboah ◽  
John Dogbey
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Instructional Differentiation

The advent and success of online academic programs in recent years have prompted many institutions of higher learning to increase the number of courses they offer online. As the number of online courses increases, however, so has a growing concern about the effectiveness of this instructional delivery method in adequately preparing students for further education and career aspirations. This study explored dialogue pedagogical strategies employed by instructors of online courses to enhance the quality of teaching and learning in the online environment. It also investigated challenges faced by instructors of online courses in their effort to maximize students' learning in this environment. Ten instructors of online courses participated in the study. The analysis identified instructors' presence, learning communities, instructional differentiation, and strict deadlines as dialogue factors that promote the quality of online teaching and learning. The response data also pointed to dialogue related three issues, namely: student issues; instructor issues; and technological issues that constrain students' learning in the online environment. Implications and recommendations for educators, instructors, and policymakers are provided.

scholarly journals The Challenges and Initiatives of Teaching Product Design’s Course Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-133
Author(s):  
Muhammad Jameel Mohamed Kamil ◽  
Mohd Najib Abdullah Sani
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Online Teaching And Learning ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Design Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning Environment ◽  
Barriers And Challenges

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the schools and universities around the globe, including Malaysia, were compelled to cease their operations and migrate to online teaching and learning environment. Along with this ‘forced approach’ to learning, the educators were faced with several barriers and challenges that need to be addressed. This paper intends to determine the challenges of teaching and learning Product Design courses in Malaysian universities using the online environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also highlights some of the strategies and initiatives adopted and adapted by the lecturers of this course in surmounting those challenges. Using a real-time video interview, data were collected from 10 respondents from various faculties of Malaysian higher education institutions offering product design courses. The findings of the study point to a range of difficulties in teaching Product Design courses online, including the need for more delicate interactions to ensure efficiencies in teaching and learning design courses, as well as the evaluation methods to achieve design learning and design outcomes.

Building a Culture of Ethical, Comparable, Authentic Assessment

2019 ◽  
pp. 463-481
Author(s):  
Andrew Reid ◽  
Julie Ballantyne
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
System Level ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
School Based ◽  
The Subject

In an ideal world, assessment should be synonymous with effective learning and reflect the intricacies of the subject area. It should also be aligned with the ideals of education: to provide equitable opportunities for all students to achieve and to allow both appropriate differentiation for varied contexts and students and comparability across various contexts and students. This challenge is made more difficult in circumstances in which the contexts are highly heterogeneous, for example in the state of Queensland, Australia. Assessment in music challenges schooling systems in unique ways because teaching and learning in music are often naturally differentiated and diverse, yet assessment often calls for standardization. While each student and teacher has individual, evolving musical pathways in life, the syllabus and the system require consistency and uniformity. The challenge, then, is to provide diverse, equitable, and quality opportunities for all children to learn and achieve to the best of their abilities. This chapter discusses the designing and implementation of large-scale curriculum as experienced in secondary schools in Queensland, Australia. The experiences detailed explore the possibilities offered through externally moderated school-based assessment. Also discussed is the centrality of system-level clarity of purpose, principles and processes, and the provision of supportive networks and mechanisms to foster autonomy for a diverse range of music educators and contexts. Implications for education systems that desire diversity, equity, and quality are discussed, and the conclusion provokes further conceptualization and action on behalf of students, teachers, and the subject area of music.

scholarly journals Designing Tasks for a Dynamic Online Environment: Applying Research into Students’ Difficulties with Linear Equations

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 557
Author(s):  
Morten Elkjær ◽  
Uffe Thomas Jankvist
Keyword(s):  
Design Theory ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Linear Equations ◽  
Task Design ◽  
Tree Structure ◽  
Learning Trajectory ◽  
Variation Theory ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
School Students ◽  
Personalised Learning

Despite almost half a century of research into students’ difficulties with solving linear equations, these difficulties persist in everyday mathematics classes around the world. Furthermore, the difficulties reported decades ago are the same ones that persist today. With the immense number of dynamic online environments for mathematics teaching and learning that are emerging today, we are presented with a perhaps unique opportunity to do something about this. This study sets out to apply the research on lower secondary school students’ difficulties with equation solving, in order to eventually inform students’ personalised learning through a specific task design in a particular dynamic online environment (matematikfessor.dk). In doing so, task design theory is applied, particularly variation theory. The final design we present consists of eleven general equation types—ten types of arithmetical equations and one type of algebraic equation—and a broad range of variations of these, embedded in a potential learning-trajectory-tree structure. Besides establishing this tree structure, the main theoretical contribution of the study and the task design we present is the detailed treatment of the category of arithmetical equations, which also involves a new distinction between simplified and non-simplified arithmetical equations.

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