The Role of Students’ Social Identities in Fostering High-Quality Learning in Higher Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 211-222
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Bliuc ◽  
Peter Goodyear ◽  
Robert A. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Learning

Fostering NCL in Higher Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 331-351
Author(s):  
Serena Alvino ◽  
Guglielmo Trentin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Technology ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Faculty Training ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Everyday Activity ◽  
Specific Proposal ◽  
The One ◽  
Quality Learning

Networked Collaborative Learning (NCL) is undeniably a double-edged sword. On the one hand it can yield high-quality learning and enhance both teachers’ and learners’ satisfaction. On the other hand, however, it requires careful planning and specific skills for the design and management of online learning activities. This is one of the main reasons for the limited adoption of NCL in a number of educational contexts. The focus of this chapter is a specific proposal aimed to foster the wide diffusion of Educational Technology (ET) and NCL in higher education (HE). In this perspective the chapter analyses the main barriers that limit the diffusion of Network-Based Educational Technology (NBET) approaches, in particular NCL, and then, in order to overcome them, presents an innovative approach to faculty training in Educational Technology Instructional Design. This approach is founded on multidimensional scaffolding, which supports teachers to integrate rules, heuristics, and best practices for design of active and collaborative online learning into their everyday activity.

Developing a Taxonomy for Learning Designs

2011 ◽  
pp. 228-242
Author(s):  
Barry Harper ◽  
Ron Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
Quality Learning ◽  
User Review

This chapter describes the development of a taxonomy of learning designs based on a survey of 52 innovative ICT-using projects that formed the basis of a grounded approach to classifying high quality learning designs. The concept of learning designs has the potential to support academics in the process of offering high quality ICT supported learning settings in the higher education sector. The taxonomy is proposed as a mechanism to explore ways in which learning designs can be made accessible to academics and to help with the understanding of the goals of the learning design movement. The development of the taxonomy is described, and user review of the representation of learning designs in a Web context is discussed. Finally, the current gap in the literature about accurate and effective taxonomies describing and distinguishing between various forms of learning design is discussed in relation to future research agendas.

European Quality Observatory

2011 ◽  
pp. 368-375
Author(s):  
Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Future ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Quality Learning

Quality has become a major factor for concern if e-learning should have its final breakthrough (Danish Evaluation Institute, 2003; Dondi & Moretti, 2004; Friend-Pereira, Lutz & Heerens, 2002; Frydenberg, 2002). This is the reason for the great variety of concepts and suggestions. One can regard quality more and more as a subjectively individual and collectively influential category. How should learning opportunities look like and learning environments be structured, now and in the future? How do we meet the demand for building high quality learning capacities in higher education— as an important contribution to transform our societies into learning societies?

From Avoiding Bias to Social Justice

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Anne E. Lundquist ◽  
Gavin Henning
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Assessment Decisions ◽  
Quality Learning ◽  
Research Based Practices ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

The demographics of U.S. colleges and universities continue to evolve and higher education is being called to reinvent itself in order to ensure that all students have high quality learning experiences. An equity-minded approach to assessment helps determine the effectiveness of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and programs as well as embodies practices and procedures that themselves are socially just. This text share many research-based practices that value, prioritize, and develop diversity, intercultural fluency, and equity in campus specific settings. This chapter describes the higher education and cultural context in which the equitable assessment conversation is taking place; reviews how research paradigms, methods, and culture impact assessment decisions and methods; describes a socially just assessment continuum; and offers tips for implementing equity-minded assessment.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC COMPETENCE IN FUTURE SPECIALISTS OF EDUCATION BY MEANS OF DESIGNING PEDAGOGICAL BUSINESS PROJECTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 190
Author(s):  
Alena Chekina
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Quality Analysis ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Measuring Instruments ◽  
Expert Evaluation ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Economic Competence

The paper reveals the role of designing pedagogical business projects for the development of socio-economic competence in future specialists of education. The methodological basis of the research is constituted by competence-based and project approaches in higher education. The paper contains the author's determination of the concept "socio-economic competence of future specialists of education", the description of specifics of creation by students of business projects in the sphere of educational services. The problem of the research is formulated by means of a question: by what method the socio-economic competence of future specialists of education to be increased. The extent of development of socio-economic competence was measured by means of a system of commonly accepted techniques for the high-quality analysis of oral and written answers, conversations, observations, an expert evaluation, testing, a case measuring instruments, statistical methods analysis, in particular, calculation of percentage ratios and arithmetic averages of numbers. These tools allow us to reveal levels of readiness of all substantial components of this competence: motivational, cognitive, activity, reflexive, axiological.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Role of Higher Education Opportunity Expansion in Social Stratification

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Ma Lulu ◽  
Zhao Cuilan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Class Mobility ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Education Opportunity ◽  
Expansion Of Higher Education

With higher education entering the public’s vision, the expansion of higher education opportunities has gradually become a hot topic. The lower class is eager to achieve class mobility through this opportunity, while the upper class firmly grasps the few high-quality places in higher education. What role will the expansion of higher education opportunities plays in the overall social stratification? This paper discusses the impact of the expansion of higher education opportunities on social stratification from the upper class and the lower class.

scholarly journals Quality of education as an indicator of the quality of life

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 03045
Author(s):  
El.M. Lysenko ◽  
Ye.N. Zharinova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Educational Community ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Philosophical Discourse

The article presents ideas fundamental for the educational community of the determining role of the quality of education on the quality of a modern person and his/her various aspects of life. The authors turn to the origins of the idea of improving the quality of life in philosophical discourse, show the role of education in transforming a student's potency into his real achievements. The article describes the noospheric and acmeological guidelines for improving the quality of a person and his/her life, considering the degree of the culture of life. Having summarized the philosophical, pedagogical, sociological, and economic research, the authors describe the factors that affect the quality of life of subjects of education, systematize various views on the problem of the quality of education in domestic pedagogy, describe innovations that improve the quality of the educational process, and argue the need for their introduction into the practice of higher education. As a proof of the importance of improving the quality of education and its impact on the younger generation, the article presents the results of a reflective analysis of students derived from essays, questionnaires, and interviews that rank and independently describe the criteria for improving the quality of a person and life in conditions of high-quality higher education.

scholarly journals Using Generic Templates to Promote the Use of High Quality Learning Designs in Higher Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Student Body ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Attrition Rates ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Quality Learning

Designing for learning in the higher education sector is a complex task, especially in light of the increasing diversity of the student body. With research pointing to an inverse relationship between student engagement and attrition rates, lecturers need to be mindful of a wide range of student ability levels, socio-economic backgrounds, learning styles, and specific curriculum requirements when designing for their students’ learning. Learning design is a professional activity for which many of our academic staff are not trained. There are examples of learning designs which apply the most recent research into learning but a number of studies have shown that they are not widely utilised in all universities. This current study took a mixed methods approach to explore whether generic templates (a learning design pattern to which subject content can be added) could be used to share well-researched, high quality learning designs across a range of disciplines. The results revealed that generic learning design templates can provide a means for lecturers to access a broad range of learning designs but there are barriers to sharing these in the higher educational sector. At a time when providing students with a quality learning environment is considered highly desirable, it might be time these barriers were reviewed. By using generic templates, lecturers might be encouraged to explore new learning designs and reflect on how their existing teaching approaches affect their students’ learning.

scholarly journals Cost-savings achieved in two semesters through the adoption of open educational resources

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Levi Hilton III ◽  
T. Jared Robinson ◽  
David Wiley ◽  
J. Dale Ackerman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Loans ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
The United States ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Quality Learning ◽  
To Receive

<p>Textbooks represent a significant portion of the overall cost of higher education in the United States. The burden of these costs is typically shouldered by students, those who support them, and the taxpayers who fund the grants and student loans which pay for textbooks. Open educational resources (OER) provide students a way to receive high-quality learning materials at little or no cost to students. We report on the cost savings achieved by students at eight colleges when these colleges began utilizing OER in place of traditional commercial textbooks.</p>

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