scholarly journals Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice Editorial 11.2

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Romy Lawson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Associate Dean ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
Education Science

In this, my first editorial, of the Journal of University Teaching and Learning (JUTLP) I have to begin by extending thanks to Gerry LeFoe and her team for making this online journal what it is today. Without her vision and drive JULTP would not have experienced the success it has and so we have much to thank them for. I hope I can do such a good job. I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce the new editorial team • Dr Alisa Percy - Head of Learning Development, University of Wollongong; Executive Member, Association for Academic Language and Learning (AALL) • Dr Dominique Parish – Associate Dean Education (Science, Medicine and Health), University of Wollongong; Executive Member, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ascilite) • Associate Professor Romy Lawson, Director Learning, Teaching & Curriculum, University of Wollongong; OLT National Teaching Fellow; Executive Member, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. We are all looking forward to the challenges of editing this journal and excited by the opportunities to engage with authors from around the world who have a passion for university learning and teaching.

scholarly journals Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice Editorial 11.1

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Geraldine E. Lefoe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Senior Editor ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The World

This issue is the first for Volume 11 of Journal of University Teaching and Learning (JUTLP) in 2014 and my final as Senior Editor as I move into retirement and finally have time to pursue my passion for photography. I am very proud of what has been achieved by JUTLP as an open access journal and have been supported by a wonderful editorial team in order to achieve this outcome. There have been 174 articles published in the 24 issues with 116000 full text downloads since 2008 when we were able to start collecting this data. There are many people involved in ensuring each issue is published and I’d like to thank all the authors, reviewers, editors and support staff who make this possible. I have valued your support, assistance and patience over the years and know you will continue to support this journal as a valuable contribution to teaching and learning in higher education. I congratulate the new Senior Editor, Associate Professor Romy Lawson who will lead the editorial team to take JUTLP in new directions. I wish them well and know they will enjoy the engagement with authors from around the world as much as I have.

scholarly journals Editorial Volume 12 Issue 1 2021

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Nelson ◽  
Tracy Creagh
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning Research ◽  
Learning Research ◽  
Important Time ◽  
The Impact

Welcome to 2021.  Despite the impact of COVID-19 across the tertiary education sector in 2020 (and continuing), we are pleased to be able to bring you our general issue for the year intact and without interruption.  We are also reassured that our article submission rate remains constant despite the recent global disruption. The editorial team recognise that there has never been a more important time to share and disseminate current teaching and learning research.  Authors are encouraged to submit research on practice that clearly identifies elements transferable to other domains and detail how a specific initiative contributes to the broader knowledge base. In this new COVID- normal learning environment, sharing learning and teaching initiatives in an open access forum has never been more valuable.

A Discussion With Sandy O’Sullivan About Key Issues for the Australian Indigenous Studies Learning and Teaching Network

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
Katelyn Barney
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Issues

This article takes the form of an interview with Sandy O’Sullivan, who is a partner on the Australian Indigenous Studies Learning and Teaching Network, about key issues that have arisen through Network discussions. She is a Wiradjuri woman and a Senior Aboriginal researcher at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education. O’Sullivan emphasises the strengths of the Network and difficulties the Network participants have had in defining ‘Indigenous Studies’. She also discusses the important work for the Network to do into the future, to continue to strengthen relationships between educators and improve teaching and learning of Indigenous Studies at tertiary level.

scholarly journals Resultados generales de la puesta en práctica de 29 casos sobre el desarrollo de sistemas de evaluación formativa en docencia universitaria

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Manrique Arribas ◽  
Cristina Vallés Rap ◽  
Juan Manuel Gea Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
Important Conclusion ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
La Red ◽  
The University

Resumen: El siguiente trabajo muestra los resultados de 29 experiencias de innovación en docencia universitaria, en las que se ha aplicado un sistema de evaluación formativa. Han participado en el estudio 7 áreas de conocimiento de 4 universidades, con un total de 1.770 alumnos y 29 profesores. El marco de referencia lo constituye la Red de Evaluación en Docencia Universitaria, centrada en investigar el potencial de la evaluación formativa para mejorar el proceso de enseñanza- aprendizaje del alumnado universitario. La metodología empleada en esta Red de profesorado es la investigación-acción y el estudio de casos. Entre los resultados obtenidos en el estudio destacan las siguientes ventajas: a)-aprender formas alternativas de evaluación, b)-permitir mayor implicación y motivación del alumnado y c)-facilitar la adquisición de competencias de aprendizaje autónomo. Se observan algunos inconvenientes como: a)-mayor carga de trabajo para el profesor y el alumno y b)-falta de costumbre del profesorado y alumnado en la aplicación de este modelo de evaluación formativa. Sin embargo, la relación entre la carga de trabajo para el profesor y el alumno está en consonancia con el requerimiento que establece el nuevo crédito ECTS de los nuevos grados según los datos obtenidos. Los resultados extraídos permiten afirmar que la evaluación formativa supone un medio adecuado para que el alumnado alcance las competencias que exigen las titulaciones, sirviendo también como elemento dinamizador del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje que permite buenos resultados académicos así como la motivación de los alumnos y profesores. Overall results of the implementation of 29 cases on the development of formative assessment in higher education Abstract: In this paper we show the overall results after having implemented 29 innovative experiences in university teaching, based on the application of formative assessment systems. This implementation covers 7 areas of knowledge, 4 universities, 1,770 students and 29 teachers. The framework is the University Formative Evaluation Network, formed by university professors who focus on researching the potential of formative assessment to improve student learning and teaching process. The methodology used is “action research” and case studies. The results show that this evaluation system has many advantages: a) it allows learning new practice of assessment, b) greater involvement and more student motivation and c) it facilitates the acquisition of independent learning skills. It also presents some drawbacks, such as increased workload for the teacher and student, and a traditional lack of practice of teachers in the application of this model. However, the relationship between workload for the teacher and the student is in line with the requirement set by the new ECTS credit of the new degrees. The most important conclusion we have reached is that formative assessment is a very appropriate means to achieve the competencies required by the degrees, and it develops a dynamic process of teaching and learning that improves academic performance and students and teachers’ motivation.

scholarly journals Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice Editorial 9.2

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Geraldine E. Lefoe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Host Institution ◽  
New Members ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

With this second issue of Volume 9 of the Journal of Teaching and Learning Practice we bring a warm welcome to new members of the Editorial board. The board will be strengthened by their contributions. The Senior Editors are Associate Professor Geraldine Lefoe, University of Wollongong, Australia and Dr Meg O'Reilly, Southern Cross University, Australia. Our editorial board includes members of the host institution (University of Wollongong), Dr Lynne Keevers, Ms Lucia Tome, Associate Professor Greg Hampton, Dr. Michael Jones, Associate Professor Anne Porter, and Dr. Dominique Parrish. Our external board members include Ms Jude Carroll, Associate Professor Andrew Furco, Professor Terence Lovat, and Ms Carolyn Webb. We have particularly appreciated the support of the University of Wollongong’s Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) Professor Rob Castle who has recently retired. His patronage and support of our journal has seen it move from a small internal journal to a much larger international journal. He has been a great champion for teaching and learning in the local and national arena and his contributions to the institution and to the sector have been greatly valued. We wish him well in his retirement and know that he will continue his contributions to the sector in the years to come.

scholarly journals Communication Idol: Using popular culture to catalyse active learning by engaging students in the development of entertaining teaching and learning resources

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 24-40
Author(s):  
Tinashe Dune ◽  
◽  
John Bidewell ◽  
Rubab Firdaus ◽  
Morwenna Kirwan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Peer Ratings ◽  
Teaching Innovation ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Professional Health

Bringing popular culture to tertiary education can potentially increase student engagement with learning tasks and content, especially when the learning task has students producing the content. Using a singlegroup intervention plus post-test design, this study implemented and evaluated a purposely developed learning and teaching innovation capitalising on popular and consumer culture to promote active over passive learning in a large, interprofessional health science unit. Students were invited to develop educational video presentations in a friendly competition based on high-rating television musical and vocal talent quests, with cash prizes based on peer ratings, this being the intervention. From a cohort of 569 students in 12 undergraduate allied health programs, 14 students in seven teams of 1 to 3 students produced seven, high-quality videos about communication in professional health practice, and recorded their experiences of doing so. Ratings showed the majority found the process fun (85%) and instructive (64%), with 29% finding the task harder than expected. The prospect of prizes along with intrinsic motivators were reasons for producing a video. A further 285 students viewed the productions and for extra marks completed evaluation of the videos’ educational value. Videos were perceived as an educationally valuable yet entertaining way to engage unit content. Producers of videos rated the teaching and learning experience significantly more positively than students not involved in production. Qualitative analysis of open-ended responses supported relevant numerical findings. Barriers to producing videos were identified as time, resources, confidence and lack of a team. Results should encourage educators contemplating similar initiatives. The project highlights benefits of harnessing popular genres with which students identify, to encourage involvement in producing educationally justifiable content that rewards both performer and audience. The project shows how learning content and tasks created and presented in familiar and entertaining formats can catalyse students’ agentic engagement in tertiary curricula.

scholarly journals Jezik in turizem, Language and Tourism, Sprache und Tourismus

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojca Kompara Lukančič
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Tourism Websites ◽  
Learning Language

In the monograph ten scientific chapters oriented towards language for tourism that span from language learning and teaching, to lexicography, minority languages, and selected linguistic concepts are presented. Among them is the analyses of the features of the Slovene LSP Dictionary of Tourism, the question of minority communities and their tourism websites, the collocation strength and contrastive analyses of adjective-noun collocations, the concept of movement in tertiary education, the analyses of Slovene –German translations of chosen online menus, the tourist web resources as part of the L2 classroom, the connection of linguistic landscapes with tourism, writing skills in English for Tourism, local language variants of personal names, and teaching and learning language for special purposes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice Editorial 8.3

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Geraldine E. Lefoe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Welcome to the third and final issue of Volume 8 of the Journal of University Teaching and Learning (JUTLP) in 2011. As the year draws to a close we are seeing some striking changes to the higher education sector internationally. In England budget cuts have seen the closure of the twenty-four Higher Education Academy subject centres at the same time as the establishment of student fees. In Australia the cap has been lifted across the board on the number of students that can be enrolled in universities with the resultant projected increased student numbers. The focus in Australia is on social inclusion yet in England the concern for the introduction of fees is just the opposite, these will be the very students who may now be excluded. The changes in both countries see new measures of accountability and more complex regulations put in place. Will this cause people to rethink the way we teach and the way students learn? For the Higher Education Academy in the UK, new directions see the hosting of a summit on learning and teaching with a focus on flexible learning, an indicator of new directions for many institutions. In Australia, we see a renewed opportunity to investigate such changes through the opening of the Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) and its role of recognising the importance of learning and teaching through grants and awards schemes. We hope in 2012 we’ll hear more from our authors about the impact of these transformations, as well as those changes occurring in other countries around the world, on teaching practice in our universities.

scholarly journals Influence of teaching and learning materials availability on the development of pupils in upper primary schools in Karunga Zone, Gilgil Sub County

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 294-301
Author(s):  
Monicah Naisianoi ◽  
Peter Koome ◽  
Esther Marima
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Government ◽  
Education Science

It is through education where a foundation for growth, groundwork on which most of our social and economic well-being is developed. This study sought to establish the influence of teaching and learning materials available on the development of pupils in upper primary schools in Karunga Zone, Gilgil Sub County. Teaching and learning materials are devices and aids through which learning and teaching are done in schools. The study was anchored on the Theory of Instruction and adopted the descriptive research design. The target population was 587 teachers of primary schools in Karunga zone, Gilgil Sub County from which a sample of 100 teachers were selected using the stratified random sampling method. Data was collected using questionnaires and analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics. Results showed that teaching and learning materials availability (r= .652, p .000; β= .751, p .000) has a positive and statistically significant influence on the development of pupils in upper primary. Based on this finding, the study recommends that the government of Kenya through the Ministry of Education Science and Technology should improve the availability of teaching and learning resources in public primary schools in order to promote optimal development of pupils.

The Purpose of K-12 Education From a Theoretical Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Learning Networks ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Universal Language ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
K 12

Teaching and learning theories have developed from the work of the psychology, sociology, and education academies. No single theory can account for learning development in humans. An obvious statement, of course, but a declaration that educators need to remember occasionally. Theories do provide a universal language for the purposes of enquiry, investigation, and implementation. This chapter seeks to make connections between theory development in advancing education priorities and the need for learning networks to associate with earning networks. Theoretical perspectives create an effective teaching and learning framework. This chapter will offer several definitions of theory, a review of the different types of theory – including description and range of education theorists from the 19th and 21st centuries. Subject matter, including the usefulness and suitability of using theory in developing constructs on learning; the accountability of learning and teaching; and learning as shared work, are discussed. The focus of the chapter includes a case study.

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