scholarly journals Changing the face of academic skills workshops

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheryl Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Summative Assessment ◽  
Academic Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Academic Confidence ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Confidence Levels ◽  
Forward Guidance ◽  
The Face ◽  
Learning Development

The flipped approach offers flexibility in the way students learn and was adopted within Learning Development workshops to improve academic skills. Academic skills are predominantly taught using passive content, however the flipped approach looks to change the emphasis and provide active opportunities to understand taught knowledge. The sessions were delivered alongside self-paced, online, asynchronous content to scaffold academic skills and feed-forward guidance to inform summative assessment preparation. The objective was to assess the effectiveness of the flipped approach in delivering academic skills. A cohort of 50 first year students completed three face-to-face academic skills sessions together with the asynchronous content. Each were themed to develop different academic skills using subject specific examples. Attendance data was collected and a survey was used to evaluate the asynchronous content and measure the self-perceived academic confidence levels of students. To measure the success of the flipped approach this data was analysed together with the number of attempts at each e-tivity and the formative and summative grades. Results demonstrated those who attended two or more sessions (57.7% +/- 1.43) had a significantly higher summative score (p=0.041) than those who attended 1 or less (51.7% +/- 2.73). The summative grades and the number of attempts at the asynchronous content demonstrated a positive linear relationship for e-tivity 1 to 3. Overall the academic confidence improved in nearly a third of all students for each e-tivity and 17 students (54.8%) stated that they preferred the flipped approach in developing their academic skills. This emphasises that the flipped approach is an effective method to improve summative grades and deliver academic skills.

scholarly journals Education and professional training: blended learning in maritime english teaching

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3D) ◽  
pp. 175-188
Author(s):  
Iryna Shvetsova ◽  
Valentyna Fediaieva ◽  
Olena Moroz
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
On Line ◽  
English Classroom ◽  
Maritime English

This paper explores the peculiarities of blended learning approach in teaching Maritime English. The research is aimed to reveal the pedagogical potential of Blended Learning approach in teaching Maritime English. The conceptual idea of the paper is grounded on the recognition of digitalization potential to transform how higher education is delivered and how people learn at different stages of their lives. The research reveals the pedagogical potential of computer-based tools and blended learning approach in Maritime English classroom. The attempt has been made to provide the effective techniques and methods of professionally-oriented communicative competency formation and development by means of Blended Learning implementation at different stages of professional Maritime training. The on-line course in Maritime English, delivered to the learners via LMS Moodle, which is complemented with the face-to-face traditional classroom learning, is described in the research to exemplify the use of the Blended Learning approach for teaching first year students of maritime educational institutions.

Closing the Gap: Preparing Computing Students for Employment through Embedding Work-Related Learning in the Taught Curriculum

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine McKinnon ◽  
June McCrae
Keyword(s):  
Student Feedback ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Confidence Levels ◽  
Closing The Gap ◽  
Computing Curriculum ◽  
The Impact

This paper presents the findings from a pilot study which explored the impact of embedding work-related learning activities in the first-year computing curriculum at Glasgow Caledonian University. Students worked in teams on practical projects which were formally assessed and the researchers gathered student feedback using two online surveys (n=159) and focus groups (n=29). The findings indicate that 85% of the students felt that their learning on the module had improved their employability skills but that their confidence levels in most skills were lower at the end of the module. The paper suggests that first-year students' realistic awareness of their own skills gaps leads to more focused learning in their remaining years of study.

scholarly journals From studio practice to online design education: Can we teach design online? | De l’enseignement pratique en studio à l’enseignement en ligne : peut-on enseigner le design en ligne ?

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Fleischmann
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Future Research ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Online Design ◽  
Studio Practice ◽  
Is Design

Digital technology is reshaping the way higher education subjects are taught, including design. Various design disciplines use studio teaching as a pedagogy to educate students for professions in art and design. Studio teaching bases a high premium on face-to-face interactions which guide learning through dialogue and feedback on individual work. Many design educators believe it is difficult or even impossible to teach design online because of studio-based interactions. Is design one of those disciplines that cannot be taught online because of the studio culture? This study explores that question by investigating the effectiveness of teaching design subjects that employ a virtual classroom to manage peer-to-peer critiques, instructor feedback, and assignments. Twenty-eight first-year students participated in two online design subjects that required them to interact with fellow students and the design instructor via a Learning Management System. The experienced benefits and challenges of students and instructors are presented, and future research is highlighted.La technologie numérique transforme la façon dont sont enseignées les disciplines de l’éducation postsecondaire, y compris le design. Différentes branches du design se servent de l’enseignement en studio comme pédagogie permettant de former les étudiants pour les métiers des arts et du design. L’enseignement en studio accorde une importance considérable aux interactions en personne qui orientent l’apprentissage par l’entremise du dialogue et de la rétroaction offerte sur le travail individuel. De nombreux enseignants de design croient qu’il est difficile, voire impossible, d’enseigner le design en ligne à cause des interactions en studio. Le design est-il l’une de ces disciplines que l’on ne peut pas enseigner en ligne à cause de la culture des studios? Cette étude explore la question en investiguant l’efficacité de sujets qui étudient le design à l’aide d’une salle de classe virtuelle, qui sert à gérer les critiques entre les pairs, les rétroactions de l’instructeur, ainsi que les travaux à effectuer. Vingt-huit étudiants de première année ont pris part à deux cours de design en ligne qui exigeaient d’eux qu’ils interagissent avec leurs camarades et avec l’instructeur par l’entremise d’un système de gestion de l'apprentissage. Les avantages et les défis dont les étudiants et les instructeurs ont fait l’expérience sont présentés, et des pistes sont proposées pour des études futures.

scholarly journals Analysis of Fear Post COVID in First-Year Students after the Incorporation to the Classroom: Descriptive Study in University Students of Health Sciences

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1621
Author(s):  
Pablo A. Cantero-Garlito ◽  
Marta Rodríguez-Hernández ◽  
Esther Moraleda-Sepúlveda ◽  
Begoña Polonio-López ◽  
Félix Marcos-Tejedor
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
School Year ◽  
Social Restriction ◽  
University Population ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Spanish Universities

Background: After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, social restriction measures were implemented, among them, the adaptation of university teaching to online modality until the end of the 2019–2020 school year in order to stop the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. At the beginning of the 2020–2021 school year, the Spanish universities opted for face-to-face teaching. To that end, different special measures and adaptations were implemented in higher education facilities, aimed at minimizing the risk of infection and ensuring safe face-to-face learning. The objective was to explore and describe the level of fear of first-year students after the start of in-person classes in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: The sample was 185 first-year students who were evaluated on the first day of class. For that purpose, an ad-hoc questionnaire was administered to collect demographic information and to find the level of fear and concern. The Fear of COVID-19 Scale was used to assess the severity of the participants’ fear of the pandemic situation. Results: The results indicate that participating university population does not report fear of the virus, but they describe various psychosomatic characteristics, such as increased pulse rate and heart palpitations (p = 0.008) and insomnia (p = 0.05) when they think about infection with coronavirus. Nevertheless, when data are disaggregated by gender, we observe differences specifically in women (83.2%), such as fear (p = 0.006) and sweaty hands when they think of the virus (p = 0.023). Conclusions: Incoming university freshmen do not express concern or fear of potential infection with COVID-19, but they are concerned about family transmission after beginning face-to-face classes.

scholarly journals The benefits of good tutor-student relationships in the first year

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Ella R Kahu ◽  
Catherine Picton
Keyword(s):  
Help Seeking ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Year ◽  
Student Relationships ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Teacher Student Relationships ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Hands On ◽  
The Face ◽  
Affective Dimensions

Teacher-student relationships (TSR) are an important influence on the student experience at university. Existing research, predominantly with lecturers, highlights that these relationships have academic and affective dimensions. Studies demonstrate good TSR increase student motivation, engagement, and learning. The current study adds a student voice to this topic, focussing on their views of tutoring staff, who undertake much of the face-to-face teaching in universities. The qualitative study followed 19 students through their first year at an Australian university. The students identified four characteristics of a ‘good’ tutor: helpful, caring, likeable, and hands-on. Students talked about multiple benefits of having a good tutor including increased help-seeking, studying harder, more interest in class, and improved well-being and belonging. The importance of the tutor role is underestimated and institutions would do well to better support these valuable staff.

scholarly journals Hapticity in Digital Education Atmosphere

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-157
Author(s):  
Esen Gokce Ozdamar ◽  
◽  
Gokcen Firdevs Yucel Caymaz ◽  
Hulya Yavas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Haptic Perception ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article focuses on the effects of the decreased ability to perceive touch in distance learning for all of the actors in architectural design studios during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. As part of face-to-face architectural pedagogy, the tactile experience of architectural materials, models, and corporeality in the studio environment assumes great importance. However, in contrast, these aspects are diminished when it comes to digital education, generating new topics for discussion. This article asks how and to what extent distance education models can affect the process of learning, understanding, discussing, and designing architecture, amidst the prospect of continuous digital education in the post-pandemic period. Hence, it examines the awareness and experiences of haptic perception of first-year students at the Istanbul Aydın University Department of Architecture through in-depth interviews recorded on Zoom. Between 2020 and 2021, the interviews investigated haptic perception, observed construction techniques, factors affecting design materials, the way and place in which materials were perceived, the methods of sharing and transferring designs with studio instructors, questions about the obstacles encountered, and expectations for the post-pandemic period. The outcomes of these in-depth interviews showed that there is a close relationship between the students’ bodily interests and their awareness with regards to perceiving materials and that the former indicated a tendency towards making models. It was observed that students had preferred digital design tools in the pre-pandemic period, and in addition to the digital tools that students often use as a design approach, they negotiated as designing through hand-drawing in order to gain the “thinking with one’s hands” experience in this study. This emphasizes the need for haptic experiences in an architectural educational environment.

scholarly journals E-learning in COVID 19 period: first year students’ perspective: a web-based Google form descriptive study

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 743
Author(s):  
Rose Davy C. ◽  
Koushiki Mani
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
First Year ◽  
Continuous Learning ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Normal Method ◽  
Power Point ◽  
Student’S Attitude

Background: The current COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the paradigm of medical education. Face-to-face mode of teaching was the basis of traditional medical education. In this crisis situation, e-learning has become the only method of education for continuous learning. In this study, we attempt to find out the students’ perspective of various aspects of e-learning.Methods: For the purpose of the study, a questionnaire was prepared to understand student’s attitude towards e-learning, their likes and dislikes about e-learning and also suggestions from their end to improve the existing modes of e-learning. The set of questionnaire (Google forms) along with informed consent was shared via whatsapp group at the end of physiology theory teaching session.Results: 175 first year MBBS students gave their consent and participated in this study. The most preferred method of e-learning was power-point with recorded narration and the least preferred method was live classes. Poor connectivity issue is the major challenge faced by the students in our study.Conclusions: In this COVID-19 era, the future of medical education has changed forever. E-learning is the new normal method of teaching. In order to be effective, students require support from Government, faculties and parents. 

Voices from the margins: narratives of learning development in a Digital Age

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Abegglen ◽  
Tom Burns ◽  
Sandra Sinfield
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Exclusionary Practices ◽  
The People ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Writing Practice

This paper explores how to facilitate the ‘bedding in’ and ‘becoming of’ undergraduate students who come from non-traditional backgrounds and struggle with what is, for them, the often alien world of academic writing and assessment.  To achieve their aims, the authors set up a partnership between the students of a second-year Peer Mentoring module and those of a first-year Becoming an Educationalist one.  By means of this creative partnering, and via reflective blog entries, they worked to harness quasi-academic writing to help such first-year students to become familiar with, and powerful within, the exclusionary practices (in particular, the written conventions of academic essays) of Higher Education.  They argue that this innovative ‘teaming-up’ of second- and first-year students not only models collaborative learning and writing practice, but also facilitates the ‘bedding-in’ of newcomers.  The paper itself models the partnership and creative writing methods used to help students find their ‘voice’ by being ‘co-produced’ by the people teaching across the two modules concerned.

scholarly journals Lessons From Starting a New Subspecialty in a Rural State

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 986-988
Author(s):  
Paul Rosen ◽  
Charles Mullett
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Work Absence ◽  
Patient Access ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Approach ◽  
The Face ◽  
Rural State ◽  
Team Based Care

In starting a new pediatric rheumatology service in a rural state, we designed the practice to focus on patient access, patient quality, and patient experience. We created a clinical experience that starts with an intake call to optimize the face-to-face visit. A team-based care approach is used. Weekend appointments are offered to avoid school and work absence. The social determinants of health are addressed. In our first year, our patients have reported their appreciation for a high-touch, patient-centered experience.

scholarly journals The sexual life of women with breast cancer: meanings attributed to the diagnosis and its impact on sexuality

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Monteiro Cesnik ◽  
Elisabeth Meloni Vieira ◽  
Alain Giami ◽  
Ana Maria de Almeida ◽  
Daniela Barsotti Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Surgical Procedure ◽  
Rehabilitation Program ◽  
Sexual Life ◽  
First Year ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Single Pattern ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Way

Breast cancer is the main neoplasm which affects women. It brings emotional problems in addition to physical and social problems due to affecting a bodily symbol of femininity. The aim of this study was to investigate the sexual life of women with breast cancer in the first year after the surgical procedure, seeking the meanings they attributed to the diagnosis and its repercussions on sexuality. Ten women who participated in a rehabilitation program were interviewed. In addition to the face to face interview their medical record were analyzed. Two categories emerged from the thematic analysis highlighting the negative and the positive impacts of this disease on the sexual life. This variety of meanings encountered shows that there no single pattern of sexual life after breast cancer. The way each woman reacts to the disease makes the way she experiences her sexuality unique. It follows that issues of sexuality must be incorporated in interventions offered in the context of care for these women.

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