Strategic Planning for Teaching and Learning in Times of COVID

2022 ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Jefferson E. Arias Gómez ◽  
Silvia L. Espinosa Acevedo
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Institutional Sustainability ◽  
Teaching Learning

The Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios UNIMINUTO has determined a series of objectives as levers for growth and development, which have prepared it to face great changes. In this sense, UNIMINUTO Bogotá - Presential Academic Programs Campus designed the Strategic Plan 20-25 “Bogotá and UNIMINUTO, a learning community,” with which it marked its evolutionary path for the next few years. Within this planning and management framework, and based on the attention of the effects caused by COVID-19, this campus made adjustments to its processes and plans, with a series of effects that determined new learning in relation to accessibility and use of technologies in the teaching-learning process; redefinition of the mechanism for the appropriation and awareness of the strategic plan; development of activities requiring attendance, ensuring compliance with all biosafety measures; safe return of students through an alternation model and mechanisms to provide financial support to students and families to guarantee the continuity of the operation and institutional sustainability.

Music Composition and Kyosei

2019 ◽  
pp. 194-213
Author(s):  
Michele Ellen Kaschub
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Music Composition ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Program Planning ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
School Students ◽  
Teaching Learning

The spirit of cooperation central to kyosei is a critical component in the creative corners of American music education. This chapter will describe a project that involved the creation of a hybrid space where a music teacher-educator and practitioner worked with pre-service teachers and middle school students to explore teaching and learning music composition. By recasting who is considered an expert, rethinking institutional boundaries, and immersing in project-based learning on multiple levels, teacher education programs and schools can better identify their challenges and explore possible solutions. Though not part of initial program planning, the principles of kyosei were evidenced in the evolution of complex understandings developed prior to and throughout the project, in the inclusive nature of project-based learning by pre-service teachers and music students, and in the professional relationships—and, ultimately, the friendships—that emerged as the teaching-learning community matured.

Building Faculty SoTL Skills Through a Multi- and Interdisciplinary Writing Community of Practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-95
Author(s):  
Sandra Sgoutas-Emch ◽  
Judith Liu ◽  
Moriah Meyskens ◽  
Tara Ceranic Salinas ◽  
Jane Friedman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Educational Excellence ◽  
Writing Community ◽  
Over Time

Cultivating a community of faculty to support Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) work at universities can be challenging. There are many obstacles to overcome—obstacles such as how to sustain such efforts over time. The Center for Educational Excellence set out to design a strategic plan designed to address certain barriers to SoTL work and to create a long-standing community of practice for a SoTL group of faculty members—a group that has lasted over nine years to date. This chapter outlines strategies employed over the years and the evolution of the interdisciplinary group from a learning community to community of practice. The stories of past and present members are included along with advice on how others may have successful programs at their universities.

Instructional Dynamic and Flexible Strategy

2014 ◽  
pp. 49-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Railean
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Changing Roles ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Educational Ideal

Globalization, Anthropology, and Existentialism (GAE) is a philosophical paradigm of PreK–12 education that adds value to a new educational ideal: professionalism, planetary thinking, and cultural pluralism. Critical pedagogy constitutes a part of this philosophy, which describes the interdependencies between teaching, learning, and environmental assessment. By comparing the Freirean approach to the affordance of new educational technologies in everyday classrooms, the authors propose an instructional dynamic and a flexible strategy. Such a strategy proves the changing roles of teacher and learner during the learning process. This chapter aims to describe the instructional dynamic and flexible strategy as integral to teaching and learning and to evaluation methods that engage learners in classroom cognitive activity. The objective of the chapter is to investigate the transition from algorithmic to empirical methods, encouraged by the increasing role of self-regulation techniques. This presents insights into the perceived significance of the new learning strategy.

scholarly journals LEARNING COMMUNITY AS STRATEGY IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-157
Author(s):  
Syarfuni
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Model Learning ◽  
Learning Group ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Contextual Teaching ◽  
Teaching Learning

The goal of this writing is to explore the learning speaking through learning community. Learning community is of element of contextual teaching and learning. Contextual teaching and learning (CTL) is approaches to be most effective in student learning, teachers must plan, implement, reflect upon, and revise lessons. Such plans are based on CTL principles and approaches that require teachers to serve in the following roles: facilitator, organizer of the teaching/learning/assessment process, role model, learning mentor, content specialist, and knowledge dispenser. A learning community is a model of teaching and learning that has been consistently shown to improve students’ speaking. The reason why learning community can enhance the students’ in expressing idea because it has the meaning as follows: 1).Group of learning which communicate to share the idea and experience, 2).Working together to solve the problem and 3).The responsibility of each member of learning group.

scholarly journals Pengajaran Puisi dengan Metode Discovery-Inquiry

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuli Tiarina
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Teaching Literature ◽  
Inquiry Method ◽  
Teaching Learning

The goal of teaching literature is enabling students to enjoy, comprehend, explore and use literary work for improving their knowledge and language skill as well. Besides that, it is also aimed at encouraging students to master and dig the distinctive points of literary work genres, namely prose, drama and poem. In fact, teaching literature, especially teaching poem for elementary students is not an easy job. Because it becomes a problem sometime for an English teacher to make their students love and enjoy poem. So that, an appropriate teaching method is needed to solve that problem, even there is no best method which can meet all of teaching and learning goals. One of recent method that is widely used by English teacher recently is Contextual Teaching Learning (CTL). The principles of CTL have high possibilities to be applied, they are; contructing, modelling, discovery, learning community and questioning. Dealing with Discovery-Inquiry method, Carin in mentioned that Discovery-Inquiry is a teaching method that give great chances for students to get involved and using their mental process to dig and make the discoveries  for materials that they are studied. This method designs the situation that empowers students to activate their learning experience. Students may study outside of class for observation and getting inspiration, next time that experience can be written in a poem, so unconsciously they have learned how to write and explore a poem. Key words: puisi, inquiry-discovery, modeling, learning community

scholarly journals Transnational Education and e-Learning during a Pandemic: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atm S. Alam ◽  
Ling Ma ◽  
Andy Watson ◽  
Vindya Wijeratne ◽  
Michael Chai
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Education ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Transnational Education ◽  
Traditional Classrooms ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Traditional Classroom Teaching ◽  
Teaching Learning

Higher education institutions are globally facing unprecedented disruptive trends, which have rapidly changed the landscape of global higher education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While transnational education (TNE) is increasingly becoming popular as a provision for internationally recognised education at the doorstep of students, the temporary shift from traditional classroom teaching and learning (T&L) to remote online T&L caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for all stakeholders to provide the similar student experience as previously. Regarding TNE programmes, the emergency replacement of traditional classrooms with virtual ones has also raised significant challenges of both equity and pedagogy. However, given the current crisis in higher education, TNE can be a cornerstone in rebuilding the post-COVID-19 international education system. This chapter explores the challenges faced by the TNE programmes based on a systematic literature review and information gathered informally from various stakeholders and discusses the opportunities and future impacts in teaching, learning, and student support as the post-COVID-19 educational landscape emerges. It also provides an insight into how a sustainable transnational learning community can be developed for the quality and sustainability of international higher education in this new decade.

scholarly journals Pendekatan Contextual Teaching Learning Hubungannya dengan Evaluasi Pembelajaran

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasnawati
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Contextual Teaching ◽  
Teaching Learning

Pembelajaran kontekstual (Contextual Teaching and Learning) merupakan konsep belajar yang membantu guru mengaitkan antara materi yang diajarkan dengan situasi dunia nyata siswa dan mendorong siswa membuat hubungan antara pengetahuan yang dimilikinya dengan penerapannya dalam kehidupan mereka sebagai anggota keluarga dan masyarakat. Model pembelajaran kontekstual tidak bersifat ekslusif akan tetapi dapat digabung dengan model-model pembalajaran yang lain, misalnya: penemuan, keterampilan proses, eksperimen, demonstrasi, diskusi, dan lain-lain. Pendekatan kontekstual dapat diimplementasikan dengan baik, dituntut adanya kemampuan guru yang inovatif, kreatif, dinamis, efektif dan efisien guna menciptakan pembelajaran yang kondusif.  Guru tidak lagi menjadi satu-satunya nara sumber dalam pembelajaran dan kegiatan telah beralih menjadi siswa sebagai pusat kegiatan pembelajaran serta peran guru hanya sebagai motivator dan fasilitator, maka semangat siswa dapat meningkat dengan menggunakan metode, materi, dan media yang bervariasi. Penerapan kegiatan mengkonstruk atau membangun sendiri pengetahuan pada siswa, membuat siswa terlatih untuk bernalar dan berpikir secara kritis melalui kegiatan inquiry atau menemukan sendiri masalah, kebebasan bertanya (questioning), penerapan masyarakat belajar (learning community) yaitu melatih siswa untuk bekerjasama, sharing idea, saling berbagi pengalaman, pengetahuan, saling berkomunikasi sehingga terjadi interaksi yang positif antar siswa dan pada akhirnya siswa terlibat secara aktif belajar bersama-sama.

Building Faculty SoTL Skills Through a Multi- and Interdisciplinary Writing Community of Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-90
Author(s):  
Sandra Sgoutas-Emch ◽  
Judith Liu ◽  
Moriah Meyskens ◽  
Tara Ceranic Salinas ◽  
Jane Friedman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Educational Excellence ◽  
Writing Community ◽  
Over Time

Cultivating a community of faculty to support Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) work at universities can be challenging. There are many obstacles to overcome—obstacles such as how to sustain such efforts over time. The Center for Educational Excellence set out to design a strategic plan designed to address certain barriers to SoTL work and to create a long-standing community of practice for a SoTL group of faculty members—a group that has lasted over nine years to date. This chapter outlines strategies employed over the years and the evolution of the interdisciplinary group from a learning community to community of practice. The stories of past and present members are included along with advice on how others may have successful programs at their universities.

ACCOMMODATING MOBILE LEARNING IN COLLEGE PROGRAMS

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Alden
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Discussion Board ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
College Programs ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Selected Functions

Mobile devices and applications are expected to have a significant impact on teaching and learning in the near future. Yet colleges and universities are currently facing severe budget constraints and discretionary funding is restricted for new initiatives. The question addressed in this paper is: “What strategy should an institution of higher learning with limited resources use in adapting the capabilities of mobile devices to benefit its academic programs?” To help answer this question, students were surveyed to identify their perceptions on the importance of a selected set of mobile learning functions, their experience with using those functions, their recommendation for a mobile learning adoption strategy, and information on the particular mobile devices they possess. The recommended strategy was “pick and choose special capabilities to develop” with the selected functions being (1) Receive alerts and reminders about assignments and appointments concerning the course being taken; (2) Communicate individually with faculty, an advisor, or other students using voice, email, or text messaging; (3) Post or reply to items in a poll, discussion board, or other application; and (4) Download and review lesson materials from a course being taken. Other recommendations included techniques for faculty and student support services as well as institutional policies for limiting models of mobile devices for use in courses, making online courseware for laptops and desktops the same as mobile learning courseware, and making the opportunity for mobile learning optional.

Challenges Posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for South African Higher Education Institutions

10.28945/2679 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
ME Herselman ◽  
HR Hay
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Teaching Learning

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are the major driving forces of globalised and knowledge-based societies of a new world era. They will have a profound impact on teaching and learning for two decades to come. The revolutionary change which is taking place in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), has dramatic effects on the way universities carry out their functions of teaching, learning and research, particularly on the creation, dissemination and application of knowledge. These developments pose unprecedented challenges to higher education institutions (HEIs) in developing countries particular in South Africa as South Africa is viewed as the leading country on the continent.

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