Enhance Student Learning with PowerPoint Games

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria A. Fratto
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Time On Task ◽  
Managerial Accounting ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Good Teaching Practice

Stakeholders encourage accounting educators to provide active learning opportunities, to integrate the creative use of technology into the curriculum, and to emphasize learning by doing. The principles of good teaching practice can use technology to promote active learning, to provide prompt feedback to students, to increase student time on task, and to make learning more effective and efficient for the student. Technological tools can permit students to become active participants and can improve student learning by giving students convenient access to review material with immediate feedback. This article describes the use and development of a PowerPoint game in an introductory accounting course (managerial accounting) that provides the student with immediate feedback and is designed to be accessed by the student outside of the classroom. This technological tool can be used in other undergraduate academic disciplines.

Form Over Substance: Learning Objectives In The Business Core

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Stokes ◽  
Joseph L. Rosetti ◽  
Michelle King
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Managerial Accounting ◽  
Cognitive Level ◽  
Business Faculty ◽  
Technical Content

While members of the business faculty community have been advocating active learning in the classroom, it appears that textbooks encourage learning from a passive perspective.  A review of learning objectives from 16 textbooks used in Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Finance, and Marketing demonstrates a focus on basically the same set of primary verbs at a low cognitive level. These low cognitive level verbs differ in substance from the expectations contained in the end-of-the-chapter materials.  In a world of assessment, the authors are concerned that the textbook learning objectives seem to focus on the form of technical content and not the substance of student learning.

PENERAPAN PENDEKATAN PEMBELAJARAN PAKEM DALAM MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR MATEMATIKA SISWA KELAS IV SDN 002 BAGAN BESAR

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 411
Author(s):  
Elvi Zahara
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Increased Activity

The background of this research is the lack of students' mathematics learning outcomes. Thelow yield caused by the learning of mathematics teaching is so very boring, monotonous,stressful and meaningless. Departing from the problems that occur in the field, especially ingrade IV SDN 002 Bagan Besar then there needs to be a strategy that can provide learningmathematics is expected to show active learning, creative, effective and fun. This research istindaan class (PTK), instrument collecting data observation and test learning outcomes. Theresults obtained: Increased activity of the students from the first cycle to the second cycle arevery significant. The increase in active learning, creative, and fun efekif the students alsofollowed by an increase in student learning outcomes. This is evidenced by the increase in thelearning outcomes of the first cycle to the second cycle. Namely, from the average value of 88,27 (cycle I) increased to an average value of 97, 59 (cycle II).

scholarly journals Lights, camera, active! appreciation of active learning predicts positive attitudes towards lecture capture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Nordmann ◽  
Anne Clark ◽  
El Spaeth ◽  
Jill R. D. MacKay
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Conceptions Of Learning ◽  
Educational Impact ◽  
Lecture Capture ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Positive Attitudes

AbstractMuch has been written about instructor attitudes towards lecture capture, particularly concerning political issues such as opt-out policies and the use of recordings by management. Additionally, the pedagogical concerns of lecturers have been extensively described and focus on the belief that recording lectures will impact on attendance and will reduce interactivity and active learning activities in lectures. However, little work has looked at the relationship between attitudes towards lecture capture and broader conceptions of learning and teaching. In this pre-registered study, we administered the Conceptions of Learning and Teaching scale and a novel lecture capture attitude scale to 159 higher education teachers. We found that appreciation of active learning predicted more positive attitudes towards lecture recordings as an educational support tool, whilst higher teacher-centred scores predicted greater concern about the negative educational impact of recordings. The effects observed were small; however, they are strong evidence against the view that it is instructors who value participatory and active learning that are opposed to lecture capture. Exploratory analyses also suggested that those who did not view recordings as an essential educational resource record fewer of their lectures, highlighting the real-world impact that attitudes can have, and further strengthening the need for staff to be provided with evidence-based guidance upon which to base their teaching practice. Data, analysis code, and the pre-registration are available athttps://osf.io/uzs3t/.

TECHNOLOGY IN THE TEACHING OF NEUROSCIENCE: ENHANCED STUDENT LEARNING

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Group Learning ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Teaching Tools ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Enhanced Learning ◽  
Enhance Student Learning

The primary motivation for integrating any form of education technology into a particular course or curriculum should always be to enhance student learning. However, it can be difficult to determine which technologies will be the most appropriate and effective teaching tools. Through the alignment of technology-enhanced learning experiences with a clear set of learning objectives, teaching becomes more efficient and effective and learning is truly enhanced. In this article, I describe how I have made extensive use of technology in two neuroscience courses that differ in structure and content. Course websites function as resource centers and provide a forum for student interaction. PowerPoint presentations enhance formal lectures and provide an organized outline of presented material. Some lectures are also supplemented with interactive CD-ROMs, used in the presentation of difficult physiological concepts. In addition, a computer-based physiological recording system is used in laboratory sessions, improving the hands-on experience of group learning while reinforcing the concepts of the research method. Although technology can provide powerful teaching tools, the enhancement of the learning environment is still dependent on the instructor. It is the skill and enthusiasm of the instructor that determines whether technology will be used effectively.

scholarly journals In Defense of the Populist Lecture

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (04) ◽  
pp. 759-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Lawrence Schrad
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Full Advantage ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
Large Lecture ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Visual Variety

AbstractInformation and communication technology (ICT) programs like Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote have become the norm for large university lecture classes, but their record in terms of student engagement and active learning is mixed at best. Here, the author presents the merits of a “populist” lecture style that takes full advantage of the variety of features available from the latest generation of ICT programs. Based on visual variety, audio and visual sound bites, and the incorporation of humor and pop-cultural references, this populist approach not only facilitates greater student attention and engagement with the class materials, but also offers unmatched opportunities for extending student learning beyond the confines of the large lecture hall.

scholarly journals Active paper for active learning

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Brown ◽  
Robert Harding ◽  
Steve Lay ◽  
Peter Robinson ◽  
Dan Sheppard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
Natural Interfaces ◽  
Electronic Documents ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Electronic Form ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Electronic Teaching

Paper documents have great advantages in readability, portability and familiarity, but are necessarily static and slow to update. Much recent research has concentrated on the dynamic demonstrations, immediate feedback, and easy updating that can be provided by electronic teaching material. Although an increasing number of teaching packages make use of both paper and electronic documents, the two are typically accessed by completely separate interfaces. We have been taking a different approach and investigating the use of a DigitalDesk (Wellner, 1991; Wellner, 1993) as a means of integrating normal paper teaching material with electronic versions of the same material. Many printed books also exist in electronic form, and our goal is to allow these books to be used as natural interfaces to any additional information that may be present in the electronic version.DOI:10.1080/0968776980060114

scholarly journals Teacher Careers in Education Systems That Are Coherent for Learning: Choose and Curate Toward Commitment to Capable and Committed Teachers (5Cs)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue-Yi Hwa ◽  
Lant Pritchett
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
School Enrolment ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Component Systems ◽  
Multi Level

How can education authorities and organisations develop empowered, highly respected, strongly performance-normed, contextually embedded teaching professionals who cultivate student learning? This challenge is particularly acute in many low- and middle-income education systems that have successfully expanded school enrolment but struggle to help children master even the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. In this primer, we synthesise research from a wide range of academic disciplines and country contexts, and we propose a set of principles for guiding the journey toward an empowered, effective teaching profession. We call these principles the 5Cs: choose and curate toward commitment to capable and committed teachers. These principles are rooted in the fact that teachers and their career structures are embedded in multi-level, multi-component systems that interact in complex ways. We also outline five premises for practice, each highlighting an area in which education authorities and organisations can change the typical status quo approach in order to apply the 5Cs and realise the vision of empowered teaching profession.

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