On-Ramps to more effective teaching: Quick-start guides to strategies for actively engaging students in the classroom to improve learning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Tewksbury ◽  
Florian Fusseis ◽  
Phillip Resor ◽  
Jennifer Wenner ◽  
Kim Blisniuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
College And University ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Skill Building ◽  
Interactive Lecture

<p>The landscape of college and university teaching in the geosciences has changed over the past 20 years.  Research has documented 1) that faculty in the U.S. now spend less time lecturing and more time actively engaging students in the classroom, and 2) that active engagement is more common in geoscience classrooms than it is in biology, chemistry, physics, or engineering. The web sites of <em>Teach the Earth</em>  and <em>On the Cutting Edge</em> have thousands of web pages of resources for geoscience faculty who want to more actively engage their students in the classroom. But what if you want to incorporate more active learning but aren’t sure where to start or how these techniques might work in your courses? Or what if you are looking for new approaches or fresh ideas to add to techniques that you already use?</p><p>On-Ramps are quick-start guides designed to bring you up to speed in effective strategies for engaging students more actively in the classroom. Each 2-page On-Ramp focuses on a particular teaching strategy, rather than on how to teach a particular topic. The current On-Ramps cover interactive lecture, brainstorming, concept sketches, jigsaws, discussions, quantitative skill-building, just-in-time approaches, case studies, and re-thinking course coverage and linearity. Each On-Ramp includes a simple example that illustrates the strategy, why the technique is valuable, implementation tips, additional examples and modifications, and links to activities, supporting research, and other resources. On-Ramps will be available at the poster and can also be downloaded as pdfs from serc.carleton.edu/onramps/index.html</p><p>On-Ramps originated from the 2018 community vision report to US National Science Foundation on <em>Challenges and Opportunities for Research in Tectonics</em>, and their development was supported with a grant from NSF. The On-Ramps writing team is a group of geoscientists at a variety of career levels with specialties across the range of subdisciplines that regularly address tectonic problems. Although examples currently focus on the broad field of tectonics, On-Ramps can be easily adapted for courses in other geoscience disciplines at all levels.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Linking Premise To Practice: An Instructional Theory-Strategy Model Approach

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall Bowden
Keyword(s):  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Instructional Theory ◽  
College And University ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Strategy Model ◽  
Model Approach

College and university teaching has come under intense scrutiny in recent years. Scholars agree that effective teaching is much more than the transmission of knowledge.  However, they may disagree as to what effective teaching entails.  This paper provides a perspective that effective teaching, and thus learning, is enhanced when appropriate instructional theories are clearly linked to correlated teaching strategies.  It discusses the purpose of theories and models in that they explain and predict behavior.  Furthermore, it presents the Instructional Theory-Strategy Model and demonstrates how theory and strategy are linked.  If theory does indeed explain and predict behavior, faculty can increase learning opportunities by linking the appropriate instructional theory to its corresponding teaching strategy.

Developing Web Pages as Supplements to Traditional Courses

2000 ◽  
pp. 147-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleborne D. Maddux ◽  
Rhoda Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
College And University ◽  
Special Unit ◽  
Traditional Courses ◽  
Improve Instruction

There has been a recent explosion of interest in distance education. On college and university campuses, this interest owes much of its life and vigor to (a) a belief by university faculty that technology may be able to improve instruction, and (b) the sudden realization by university administrators that distance education is producing large sums of money and has the potential to produce much more. In higher education, the World Wide Web (WWW) has come to be one of the most popular service delivery vehicles for distance education efforts. At first, most sites were created primarily for courses delivered entirely over the Web. More recently, many Web sites are being created by individual instructors as supplements to their more traditionally delivered, on-campus courses. Currently, many thousands of Web sites are dedicated to higher education courses, and the number of such sites is increasing rapidly. This rapid increase has resulted in publication of many course-related pages that are less than ideal in both pedagogical and technical terms. This problem is especially acute for those pages that are supplementary to traditional courses, since there are seldom support services available for instructors who wish to design, create, and maintain such pages. Consequently, individual instructors are typically “on their own” with regard to planning, producing, and maintaining such pages. In contrast, institutional technical and pedagogical support is often provided for developers of Web sites intended for use in courses delivered primarily or exclusively by distance education, since such efforts are often assigned to a special unit such as an extension department or a department of continuing education. These units often employ or retain both technicians and subject matter specialists to assist in the development of course-related Web pages. Although this does not guarantee a quality product, some of the more obvious problems faced by individual instructors are sometimes avoided.

Latina College Students: Issues and Challenges for the 21st Century

NASPA Journal ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adele Lozano Rodriguez ◽  
Florence Guido-DiBrito ◽  
Vasti Torres ◽  
Donna Talbot
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Financial Aid ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Academic Support ◽  
Academic Affairs ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Latina College Students ◽  
College And University ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Success In Higher Education

A neglected yet increasing student population in higher education at the threshold of the 21st Century, Latina college and university students face distinct challenged and barriers to participation. This manuscript explores various Latina student issues - including "labeling," barriers, and factors contributing to success - and examines effective strategies for student and academic affairs administrators to support Latina success in higher education (ie, financial aid, academic support, social/cultural support, and campus environment).

National Cadet Corps (NCC): Its Role in Integrating North Eastern Region (NER) with Mainstream India

2021 ◽  
pp. 001955612110065
Author(s):  
Rita Jain ◽  
Sanjay Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Web Pages ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Secondary Resources ◽  
College And University ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
University Level ◽  
Online Sources ◽  
Federal Structure

To the North Eastern Region (NER) of India, lie the unexplored states of the Indian Union. This region holds a unique place in the federal structure of India. This article attempts to scrutinise the diversity of NER, along with the potential of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) as a medium to change, uplift and assimilate it with pan India. The article aims to comprehend how NER can accommodate the regional identities and cultural affinities with Indian mainstream identity through the intervention of NCC at college and university level. The methodology of this article is based on secondary resources such as published books, journals, web pages, reports, newspapers and online sources. The article is analytical and descriptive in nature based on thematic approach.

scholarly journals A Simulation of the Structure of the World-Wide Web

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moses Boudourides ◽  
Gerasimos Antypas
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Small Worlds ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Simple Simulation ◽  
The World

In this paper we are presenting a simple simulation of the Internet World-Wide Web, where one observes the appearance of web pages belonging to different web sites, covering a number of different thematic topics and possessing links to other web pages. The goal of our simulation is to reproduce the form of the observed World-Wide Web and of its growth, using a small number of simple assumptions. In our simulation, existing web pages may generate new ones as follows: First, each web page is equipped with a topic concerning its contents. Second, links between web pages are established according to common topics. Next, new web pages may be randomly generated and subsequently they might be equipped with a topic and be assigned to web sites. By repeated iterations of these rules, our simulation appears to exhibit the observed structure of the World-Wide Web and, in particular, a power law type of growth. In order to visualise the network of web pages, we have followed N. Gilbert's (1997) methodology of scientometric simulation, assuming that web pages can be represented by points in the plane. Furthermore, the simulated graph is found to possess the property of small worlds, as it is the case with a large number of other complex networks.

Adaptive Product Manuals

2000 ◽  
Vol 214 (8) ◽  
pp. 1013-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
D T Pham ◽  
R M Setchi
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
User Profiles ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Virtual Documents ◽  
Intelligent Product

This paper extends the concept of Intelligent Product Manuals (IPMs) which provide just-in-time support to users during the life of the product. The paper advocates the concept of Adaptive Product Manuals (APMs) that generate virtual documents corresponding to the current information needs of users. The key elements of this concept are specification of user information needs, development of a knowledge-based (KB) system with models and algorithms for processing of user requests and generation of active Web pages matching user profiles and information goals.

scholarly journals Research challenges and opportunities in the Caribbean area: first bibliometric study in the French West Indies, from 1989 to 2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Cédric Contaret ◽  
Raymond Cesaire ◽  
Jacqueline Deloumeaux ◽  
Rémi Neviere ◽  
Dabor Resiere ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Output ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Clinical Neurology ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The University

Objective. To analyze, describe, and quantify the collaborations and scientific output of the two university teaching hospitals of Martinique and Guadeloupe, at the regional, national, and international level. Methods. A bibliometrics analysis was performed from the international databases Web of Science and PubMed, for the period from 1989 to 2018, inclusive (30 years). Three types of bibliometric indicators were used, namely quantitative indicators, performance indicators, and organization-specific indicators. Affiliations of the first and last authors were identified from PubMed. Results. Between 1989 and 2018, a total of 1 522 indexed articles were published with at least one author affiliated to either the University Hospital of Martinique (n = 827) or the University Hospital of Guadeloupe (n = 685). The majority of articles were in category Q1 (35.8% for Martinique and 35.2% for Guadeloupe). In Martinique, over the last 30 years, the three main research areas have been clinical neurology, ophthalmology, and surgery, together representing 28.7% of all research areas, with the highest number of articles published in the field of clinical neurology (n = 81). In the University Hospital of Guadeloupe, the area of hematology was largely represented, with 79 articles published. For both hospitals, the first and last authors of the article published were mainly from mainland France Conclusions. This quantitative analysis shows the development of medical and scientific research in Martinique and Guadeloupe over the last three decades, as well as the extent of their collaborative partnerships at the national and international levels.

scholarly journals An Investigation into News Webpage interface Design in Kurdistan Region of Iraq

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 351
Author(s):  
Hoger Mahmud Hussen ◽  
Mazen Ismaeel Ghareb ◽  
Zana Azeez Kaka Rash
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Quality Standard ◽  
Website Design ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Web Interface Design

Recently the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has experienced an explosion in exposure to new technologies in different sectors especially in media and telecommunication. Internet is one of those technologies that have opened a way for information proliferation amongst a previously censored region. Developing web sites to deliver news and other information is a relatively new phenomenon in Kurdistan; this means that the design and development of web pages may lack the quality standard required. In this paper the quality of webpage interface design and usability in the field of news journalism in the KRI is examined against a set of web interface design and usability criterion. For the purpose of data collection 9 available popular news websites are chosen and 900 questionnaires are sent to 100 random users. The result is analyzed and we have found that the majority of users are satisfied with the interface design and usability of the news WebPages, however the result points out some weakness that can be improved. The outcome of this research can be used to enhance website design and usability in the field of journalism in the KRI.

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