Social constructivist perspectives on teaching and learning

2012 ◽  
pp. 290-319
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Social Constructivist

scholarly journals Transforming Pedagogy Using Mobile Web 2.0

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Cochrane ◽  
Roger Bateman
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Constructivist Learning ◽  
Social Constructivist ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Student Centred Learning ◽  
Social Constructivist Learning

Blogs, wikis, podcasting, and a host of free, easy to use Web 2.0 social software provide opportunities for creating social constructivist learning environments focusing on student-centred learning and end-user content creation and sharing. Building on this foundation, mobile Web 2.0 has emerged as a viable teaching and learning tool, facilitating engaging learning environments that bridge multiple contexts. Today’s dual 3G and wifi-enabled smartphones provide a ubiquitous connection to mobile Web 2.0 social software and the ability to view, create, edit, upload, and share user generated Web 2.0 content. This article outlines how a Product Design course has moved from a traditional face-to-face, studio-based learning environment to one using mobile Web 2.0 technologies to enhance and engage students in a social constructivist learning paradigm.

A novel social constructivist pedagogy to teach basic electrical engineering course to undergraduate students in online mode

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092199974
Author(s):  
Srikanth Allamsetty ◽  
MVSS Chandra ◽  
Chinmoy Kumar Panigrahi
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Practices ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Social Constructivist ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
First Year ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teachers And Students

The way the teachers deliver the content of any course curriculum is always important. It must create enough interest in the students, especially, when it is in the online mode. In this paper, a novel pedagogy has been proposed, which can work for both online and offline classes based on the social constructivist methods. The methods followed in the proposed pedagogy are classified into two types, viz. social examples and technical drama. One of the courses of first-year engineering undergraduates, Basic Electrical Engineering (BEE), has been taken into consideration for the practical implementation of this pedagogy. A detailed explanation of the above mentioned two methods has been presented in this paper as teaching experiments (TE), with the support of different topics of the course considered. The teachers of the courses such as BEE can follow the methods described in this paper to facilitate active learning, leading to a good understanding of the concepts. The methods have been designed such as to make both teachers and students active participants in the process of teaching and learning in both online and offline classrooms. Students are well satisfied with this novel pedagogy and it is reflected in their feedback on teacher practices as well as in their performance in the semester examinations.

scholarly journals Key Methodological Aspects of Translators’ Training in Ukraine and in the USA

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-56
Author(s):  
Kateryna Skyba
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Social Constructivist ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
The Usa ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Training Programmes

Abstract The diversity of international relations in the globalized world has influenced the role of a translator that is becoming more and more important. Translators’ training institutions today are to work out and to implement the best teaching methodology taking into consideration the new challenges of modern multinational and multicultural society. The thorough research of the experience in training translators and interpreters in the USA may help to find out new perspective methodological approaches to teaching and learning. This article reviews the variety of translator training programmes in Ukraine and in the USA and presents the analysis of the innovative teaching approaches that are currently popular in the education community. There exist different kinds of translators’ training degree programmes: short and long, full-time and part-time in Ukraine and in the USA. American universities and colleges provide not only academic programmes but also specific certificate programmes in translation and interpretation. The peculiarity of Ukrainian translators’ training programmes is that all these programmes are fully integrated into the university system. The approaches applied in the process of translators’ training in the American system of education are mostly new and oriented on the professional skills building. The following teaching approaches are currently used in the translators’ training process: profession-based, learner-centred, social constructivist and interdisciplinary. A social constructivist approach is more likely to be applied to translators’ training process in Ukraine under the modern conditions.

scholarly journals Transforming Pedagogy Using Mobile Web 2.0

2011 ◽  
pp. 281-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Cochrane ◽  
Roger Bateman
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Constructivist Learning ◽  
Social Constructivist ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Student Centred Learning ◽  
Social Constructivist Learning

Blogs, wikis, podcasting, and a host of free, easy to use Web 2.0 social software provide opportunities for creating social constructivist learning environments focusing on student-centred learning and learner-generated content creation and sharing. Building on this foundation, mobile Web 2.0 has emerged as a viable teaching and learning tool, facilitating engaging learning environments that bridge multiple contexts. Today’s dual 3G and wifi-enabled smartphones provide a ubiquitous connection to mobile Web 2.0 social software and the ability to view, create, edit, upload, and share learner-generated Web 2.0 content. This chapter outlines how a Product Design course has moved from a traditional teacher-centred face-to-face, studio-based learning environment to one using mobile Web 2.0 technologies to enhance and engage students in a social constructivist learning paradigm.

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