scholarly journals A Reflection on Harnessing Learned Optimism, Resilience and Team Growth Behaviour in Order to Support Student Groups

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda Chadwick
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Rapid Rate ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Growth Behaviour ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Learned Optimism ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Response To Change

Change is all around us at universities, and learned optimism is a skill that is much sought after. Our rapid rate of change at Macquarie University has identified the opportunity for the Student Engagement team to implement learned optimism in their training and work practices in order to enhance the student experience. This paper will explain the current challenges and how our response to change can set the standard for future challenges. With learned optimism we are able to facilitate positive changes to practices that support the needs of student groups.

Quality of the Student Experience

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenicheri Sid Nair ◽  
Mahsood Shah
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Changing Trend

The changing pattern of student participation is playing a key role in the changing trend in the student experience. Research in general has reported the student experience and satisfaction mostly at institutional and national levels. There is limited research on what students see as most important in various institutions with various students which may improve student engagement, retention, and improvement in student satisfaction. This paper reviews the trend in student experience in three universities that have been using student satisfaction surveys for more than a decade with diverse student groups. The study presents an international perspective to student experience and satisfaction and the report in this paper is based on two Australian and one United Kingdom University. The findings and results of this study informs the predictors of student satisfaction which if effectively managed and improved by universities could result in improved student engagement, retention and student satisfaction.

Here Be Dragons

Big Data ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 1717-1735
Author(s):  
Paul Prinsloo ◽  
Sharon Slade
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Open University ◽  
Student Responsibility ◽  
Student Data ◽  
General Data

Learning analytics is an emerging but rapidly growing field seen as offering unquestionable benefit to higher education institutions and students alike. Indeed, given its huge potential to transform the student experience, it could be argued that higher education has a duty to use learning analytics. In the flurry of excitement and eagerness to develop ever slicker predictive systems, few pause to consider whether the increasing use of student data also leads to increasing concerns. This chapter argues that the issue is not whether higher education should use student data, but under which conditions, for what purpose, for whose benefit, and in ways in which students may be actively involved. The authors explore issues including the constructs of general data and student data, and the scope for student responsibility in the collection, analysis and use of their data. An example of student engagement in practice reviews the policy created by the Open University in 2014. The chapter concludes with an exploration of general principles for a new deal on student data in learning analytics.

scholarly journals The Invisible Army

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (9) ◽  
pp. 2583-2589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter H. Gilligan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Clinical Microbiology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Health Care Funding ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society ◽  
American Society For Microbiology ◽  
The Invisible

ABSTRACT The “invisible army” of clinical microbiologists is facing major changes and challenges. The rate of change in both the science and technology is accelerating with no end in sight, putting pressure on our army to learn and adapt as never before. Health care funding in the United States is undergoing dramatic change which will require a new set of assumptions about how clinical microbiology is practiced here. A major challenge facing the discipline is the replacement of a generation of clinical microbiologists. In my opinion, it is incumbent on us in the invisible army to continue to work with the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in meeting the future challenges faced by our discipline. In this commentary, I will first discuss some recent history of clinical microbiology within ASM and then some current challenges we face.

scholarly journals ValuED: A Blockchain-based Trading Platform to Encourage Student Engagement in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aydin Abadi ◽  
Jin Xiao ◽  
Roberto Metere ◽  
Richard Shillcock
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Academic Engagement ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Reputation System ◽  
Available P ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Uk

The provision of higher education has been changing ever more quickly in the UK and worldwide, as a result of technological, economic, and geopolitical factors. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated such changes. The “student experience”—the interaction of students with their institution and with each other—has been changing accordingly, with less face-to-face contact. In this work, we have explored a way to improve student engagement in higher education. We describe “ValuED”, a blockchain-based trading platform using a cryptocurrency. It allows students both to buy and sell goods and services within their university community and to be rewarded for academic engagement. ValuED involves a reputation system to further incentivise participants. We describe the implementation and piloting of this platform and draw conclusions for its future use. The platform’s source code is publicly available.

scholarly journals Getting students engaged

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Race
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
League Tables

We live and work in challenging times. Now that it seems certain (post Browne, 2010) that the fees students pay for their higher education experience will double (or worse), we can't be surprised that the emphasis on 'the student experience' of higher education will intensify. Whether students are saddling themselves with ever-increasing amounts of debt to afford that higher education experience, or whether it is parents who foot the bill, the spotlight continues to focus ever more sharply on student satisfaction, alongside all available measures of the quality of student engagement in higher education. We already have league tables in which the reflection of the student experience as gained from the National Student Survey features prominently. And with diminishing budgets for teaching, class sizes are likely to continue to grow - in those disciplines where higher education survives least scathed. So how can we meet the challenge of 'getting students engaged'?

scholarly journals Exploring professional issues: the psychosocial component of genetic counseling in genomic healthcare

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Caroline Benjamin ◽  
Alan Phillips ◽  
Julia Finch ◽  
Louise Dubois ◽  
Lisa McGrath ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Counseling ◽  
Psychosocial Aspects ◽  
Genetic Counselors ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Rapid Rate ◽  
Professional Issues ◽  
Patient Benefit ◽  
National Conference ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Selling Point

Aim: To determine UK genetic counselors’ (UKGCs) opinion regarding ‘the psychosocial component of the UKGC remit in the new genomics era’. Methods: Facilitated discussions at a national conference (2016) using interactive methodologies (58 participants). Results: UKGCs recognized the rapid rate of change emerging with advances in genomic science. Change will be required to the UKGC remit and the roles, rules, relationships and responsibilities that underpin it (29 topics identified). UKGCs supported their ‘unique selling point’; integrating knowledge and the explicit focus on psychosocial aspects of genomic healthcare. By 2019, some of the aspirations have been achieved. Conclusion: UKGCs should proactively position themselves to capitalize on the challenges and opportunities of genomic healthcare to maximize patient benefit.

scholarly journals Impact of e-servicescapes on student engagement: mediating impact of experience quality

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-222
Author(s):  
Hansani Chathurika Dassanayake ◽  
Asanka Senevirathne
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of design of e-servicescapes on student engagement in distance education (DE), and examine whether this impact is mediated by student experience quality. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative research approach based on cross-sectional survey design was adapted where data were collected using a structured questionnaire. Sample consisted of 252 undergraduates registered in the DE platform in Sri Lanka and was drawn using a simple random sampling technique. Collected data were analysed using the structural equation modelling. Findings Data analysis revealed that there is a direct significant impact of e-servicescapes on student engagement while this impact is partially mediated by student experience quality in the Sri Lankan context. Meantime, the social presence feature of e-servicescapes has the highest impact on student engagement. Practical implications Findings of the study provide an empirically validated model to boost up the student engagement and significantly contribute to the designing of the e-servicescapes of the DE institutes in order to offer a superior service to a wide array of stakeholders. Originality/value Even though e-servicescapes have been recognised as a driver of customer behaviour, the concept is fairly unexplored in the educational context. Due to its practical applicability in the DE context, this study contributes to the existing knowledge by presenting a novel conceptual model developed based on multiple theories to identify its impact on student behaviour.

Crisis, Resilience, and the Time of Law

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (02) ◽  
pp. 305-320
Author(s):  
Jaye Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Rapid Rate ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Ecosystem Resilience ◽  
Causal Pathways ◽  
Learning And Adaptation ◽  
The Face ◽  
Essential Function

AbstractThe important and no longer novel insight from ecology that ecosystems are dynamic and ever-changing along immensely complex causal pathways prompts the further insight that environmental protection regimes should promote not a particular ecosystemic end state, but rather ecosystem resilience, or the capacity to absorb and adapt to stress without compromising essential function. For law to embrace resilience as an objective, it is argued, it must itself be dynamic and flexible, capable of learning and adaptation. This poses potentially serious challenges to law’s resilience: to what extent are flexibility and adaptability at odds with what Niklas Luhmann argues is an essential feature of normative systems, namely, resistance to learning in the face of disappointment? The potentially rapid rate of change expected of a law oriented to ecosystem resilience could overwhelm law’s capacity to provide the measure of order, stability, and predictability that are core to its contribution, or prestation, to society. This paper takes this challenge seriously, but also explores another possible implication of law in the pursuit of ecosystem resilience: if environmental law is no longer conceived of in primarily instrumental terms, as a means to bring about a specific set of ecosystem objectives, there may be some possibility for its own resilience to be enhanced.

Intellectual Capital

2011 ◽  
pp. 2047-2056
Author(s):  
HY Sonya Hsu ◽  
Peter P. Mykytyn Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Rapid Rate ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Competitive Position ◽  
Know How ◽  
Internal Capabilities ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

Today’s economy is characterized by a rapid rate of change, globalization, and knowledge-intensive products. This makes knowledge management (KM) vital to organizations. The resource-based view of the firm postulates that a firm’s profitability is not only a function of its market and competitive position but also a function of its internal capabilities and know-how in combining its resources to deliver products and services and to enhance organizational performance (Alavi, 2000).

Intellectual Capital

2011 ◽  
pp. 274-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Rapid Rate ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Competitive Position ◽  
Know How ◽  
Internal Capabilities ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

Today’s economy is characterized by a rapid rate of change, globalization, and knowledge-intensive products. This makes knowledge management (KM) vital to organizations. The resource-based view of the firm postulates that a firm’s profitability is not only a function of its market and competitive position but also a function of its internal capabilities and know-how in combining its resources to deliver products and services and to enhance organizational performance (Alavi, 2000).

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