scholarly journals Editorial: JUTLP Issue 16.5

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Alisa Percy ◽  
◽  
Jo-Anne Kelder ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Us ◽  
Heated Debate

Welcome to the final issue of the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice for 2019. In this issue we have papers from Finland, the US, Ecuador, Thailand and Australia covering a range of topics and approaches exploring university teaching and learning practice. Evaluating an intervention into students’ wellbeing and organising strategies in Finland, Asikanen, Kaipainen and Katajavouri provides evidence that pharmacy students undertaking a 7 week online course designed to promote psychological flexibility had a positive impact on their study behaviors during the intervention. Addressing issues of engagement in first year, Kearney makes the case for his Authentic Self and Peer Assessment for Learning (ASPAL) Model as a particular kind of transition pedagogy that engages students in the development of a deep understanding of assessment expectations and standards of performance. Also focused on student transition, Pattanaphanchai reports on students’ learning achievement and their positive perceptions of the flipped classroom in an introductory computing class in Thailand. Dealing with contentious content in first year, Ford, Bennett and Kilmister report on a study they conducted into pedagogical models in a large first year history subject that services teacher education students and had its own history of heated debate and conflict when exploring the ANZAC mythologies. Considering how content transforms perceptions and values, Njoku reports on a longitudinal evaluation of the use of learner-centred teaching and its impact on learning outcomes in an undergraduate rural public health course in the US. And finally, Freyn introduces the pedagogical strategies used in a LGBTQ literature course in Ecuador, and reports on the results of a phenomenological study of its impact on the participants’ agency in terms of advocacy and support for the LGBTQ community.

scholarly journals JUTLP Editorial Issue 15.5

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Alisa Percy ◽  
◽  
Jo-Anne Kelder ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
The Us

Welcome to the final issue for the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice for 2018. In this issue, we have papers from Australia, the US, and Ireland, covering topics related to information and academic literacy, self-efficacy, the flipped classroom, student engagement and their perceptions of group work. Of the first two papers related to information and academic literacy, Hostetler, Luo and Stefaniak present findings from a systematic literature review exploring approaches to the assessment of students’ metacognition and its potential application in library and information science. Conducted in response to changes in an information literacy competencies framework prepared by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in the US, the authors advocate for the incorporation of metacognitive tools, including self-reflection and self-assessment, in the assessment strategies of libraries to encourage higher order thinking.

scholarly journals Advantages of authentic assessment over traditional assessment while teaching English to university students majoring in non-linguistic subjects

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-293
Author(s):  
Irina Evgenyevna Abramova ◽  
Elena Petrovna Shishmolina ◽  
Anastasia Valeryevna Ananyina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Self Assessment

The paper analyzes existing approaches to assessing the results of teaching foreign languages to the university students majoring in non-linguistic subjects with a special focus on the advantages of authentic assessment. The authors stress the state-level need to develop and implement effective assessment tools for ESL university teaching, and substantiate the effectiveness of authentic assessment for increasing students motivation to learn English. They identify advantages of authentic assessment, including a possibility to track individual students learning progress, to effectively use peer assessment and self-assessment, to focus on students performance indicators, to create a success effect, and to present actual teaching and learning results or personal development achievements in the form of presentations, projects and other tangible accomplishments. The paper describes a unified system of control, assessment and evaluation of ESL teaching and learning results, developed by Foreign Languages for Students of Humanities Department at Petrozavodsk State University (Russia) for modeling a foreign-language environment and enhancing students language socialization. The authors give a detailed account of establishing procedures for the assessment of speaking and writing skills, and analyze a didactic potential of a foreign language portfolio as one of authentic assessment tools. They come to the conclusion that peer assessment, self-assessment and other authentic assessment methods help to shift the focus from teaching to learning and create optimal conditions for student-centered education process.

scholarly journals Innovative Food Systems Teaching and Learning: overcoming disciplinary and teaching silos to fix the food system

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Ajates Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Food System ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
First Year ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Face To Face

While inter-university and interdisciplinary research projects are very common in Higher Education (HE), inter-university and interdisciplinary teaching programmes are still very rare. This paper reflects on the first year of the Innovative Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFSTAL) programme. IFSTAL is a three-year project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) with the aim of bringing together postgraduate students from very different programmes to learn about food and farming beyond their own disciplines. IFSTAL creates learning environments and activities that encourage students to think systemically about the transdisciplinary challenges facing the food system. IFSTAL combines both face to face events and an inter-university virtual learning environment (VLE) that was created from scratch for this project. At the end of its first year, a survey was carried out to evaluate the programme and inform the structure for year two (Y2). Survey data revealed students preferred interacting at face to face events over the shared VLE. The programme for Y2 was re-designed to incorporate more flipped classroom features with an andragogy-based approach.

Flipped University Classrooms

2017 ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Michael Sankey ◽  
Lynne Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Support Teams ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
University Classrooms

The three case studies in this paper show how flipped classroom approaches can facilitate the renewal of university teaching. The case studies form part of a scholarship of teaching and learning that provides opportunities for educators to learn from the experiences of others. Descriptions of course preparation illuminate the application of constructivist pedagogy, the affordances of a range of learning technologies, and a role for university teachers that facilitates their students' engagement with learning. The cases outline the application of flipped classroom approaches at early and later stages of students' learning journeys and show how they introduce parity of learning experiences for on-campus and off-campus students. The case studies show how flipped classroom approaches can be an instrument of change, forming part of institution-wide planning for coherent and effective student learning journeys. They reveal the importance of an infrastructure of learning technologies to facilitate active and interactive learning and the significance of professional development and organized support teams, including technology experts, librarians and instructional designers, in preparing the groundwork for teachers and students using flipped classroom methodologies.

scholarly journals JUTLP Editorial Issue 15.3

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Alisa Percy ◽  
◽  
Dominique Parrish ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Well Being ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Academic Needs ◽  
Positive Orientation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Enhanced Learning

Welcome to the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, Issue 15.3. In this issue, we have papers from Australia, the US, and Taiwan. The papers in this issue cover topics related to student well-being, technology-enhanced learning, disciplinary pedagogies and quantitative evaluations of student learning. Exploring the perceptions and experiences of academic staff supporting student well-being during enabling programs, Crawford and Johns found they had a positive orientation towards their students’ academic and non-academic needs, and that they were quite adept in identifying at what point they needed to refer students on to more specialist forms of support. At the heart of their argument is the need to reconsider the role of the academic in enabling programs, and develop a more holistic, student and course-centred model of support for diverse cohorts of students.

Flipped University Classrooms

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Sankey ◽  
Lynne Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Support Teams ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
University Classrooms

The three case studies in this paper show how flipped classroom approaches can facilitate the renewal of university teaching. The case studies form part of a scholarship of teaching and learning that provides opportunities for educators to learn from the experiences of others. Descriptions of course preparation illuminate the application of constructivist pedagogy, the affordances of a range of learning technologies, and a role for university teachers that facilitates their students' engagement with learning. The cases outline the application of flipped classroom approaches at early and later stages of students' learning journeys and show how they introduce parity of learning experiences for on-campus and off-campus students. The case studies show how flipped classroom approaches can be an instrument of change, forming part of institution-wide planning for coherent and effective student learning journeys. They reveal the importance of an infrastructure of learning technologies to facilitate active and interactive learning and the significance of professional development and organized support teams, including technology experts, librarians and instructional designers, in preparing the groundwork for teachers and students using flipped classroom methodologies.

scholarly journals Beyond Attrition and Retention: Working With Students to Enhance the First Year Experience

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Gerodetti ◽  
Darren Nixon
Keyword(s):  
Student Retention ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
First Year Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Attrition Rates ◽  
University Life ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Ontological Position

Student retention and attrition rates have been established as Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for course teams in the Higher Education landscape in the UK. Against this quantified (and neoliberal) auditable undertaking, in this paper we offer an examination of a set of alternative qualitative efforts which are intended to improve the first year student experience by helping students transition into their course, and university life more generally. Working with students to enhance the first year experience is at the centre of our ontological position and we draw heavily on the idea of a “long thin” induction which continues throughout the first year at university. We explore the benefits of facilitating ‘students as producers’ and incorporating ‘student intelligence’ into university teaching and learning practices before presenting a series of activities that are designed to help students transition successfully and build a strong course identity. Having offered students different ways of structured integration into the course we reflect on how these activites can help first-year students develop the kinds of skills and knowledge base that contributes to a better experience of the transition and acculturation into university life in all of its facets.

scholarly journals Is the Lessons tool useful to support students learning?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Vidaurre ◽  
José M. Messeguer-Dueñas ◽  
Jaime Riera ◽  
José Molina Mateo ◽  
José Antonio Gómez-Tejedor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning

Nowadays, Information and Communication Technologies play an important role in the teaching-learning process. Universities have incorporated different platforms specifically designed to educational institutions; among others Moodle and Sakai are being used in Spanish Universities. In particular, the Universitat Politècnica de València has adopted the PoliformaT platform, adapted from Sakai. It consists on different tools that facilitate the teaching and learning processes and the teacher–student communication. It enables teachers to improve their instructional design and it is of key importance in blended learning and flipped classroom approach. Lessons is a specific tool available in PoliformaT, which enables the organization of the different educational resources. It combines lecture slides, video lectures (from the teacher or from others sources), exams (quizzes, self-/peer-assessment), tasks and so on. The extensive use of the online platform in the daily learning of the subject, by several teachers and different student groups, needs to pay special attention to the resources organization. In contrary case, the subject platform can become a mess, losing its usefulness. In this paper, the utilization of Lessons by students in two first course subjects at the Universitat Politècnica de València is studied. The teachers of physics of the Aerospace Engineering Degree and electricity of Electronic and Automatic Engineering Degree have designed the course activities by means of the Lessons tool. There are important research questions related to the Lessons tool: how often, when, and how students access to the different contents?, do they think it is useful? At a second level, one can be asked if student perceptions are related to learning outcomes. We will use students' learning tracks, student’s survey and scores to answer these questions.

scholarly journals Students’ Acceptance of Teaching Interaction through the Diversity of Media in M-Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Hasril Amiruddin ◽  
◽  
Sri Sumarwati ◽  
Mohd Erfy Ismail ◽  
Irwan Mahazir Ismail ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Rural Students ◽  
Personal Digital Assistants ◽  
First Year ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Teaching Interaction ◽  
The Social

The technological and telecommunication development of this decade has had a profound impact, especially on the education system. In relation to this development, mobile technology in learning or M-learning is a new concept in the learning process. Examples of portable technology include PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), Smartphones, iPads, Tablets, and more. Thus, the availability of these advanced technologies promotes an environment of m-learning among students as it is easy to carry, lightweight, and not burdensome. Through the applications of Google, Facebook, YouTube, Edmodo, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, information is available anytime and anywhere and to anyone. The objectives of this study were to identify the level of students’ knowledge of m-learning, identify students’ perceptions of m-learning, identify the applicability of students' application to m-learning and identify the relationship between students' level of knowledge and applications usage of m-learning. This questionnaire was used in the data generation, which was analyzed descriptively by using statistical Package for the Social Version 20 (SPSS Statistic 20). The respondents of this study were 204 students in the first year of Faculty Technical and Vocational Education. The finding of the study showed that the use of m-learning in the teaching and learning process has a positive impact which had a min value of 4.00 and above. Besides, this study showed that the use of m-learning is highly recommended as it provides a more engaging learning experience for students. Researchers have suggested that its use of m-learning includes urban and rural students in line with the government's goal of developing an innovative and competitive convergence-based generation.

scholarly journals University Teachers’ Opinions about Higher Education Pedagogical Training Courses in Slovenia

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-161
Author(s):  
Katarina Aškerc Veniger
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Training ◽  
Training Courses

Pedagogical training courses (PTCs) for university teachers have often been discussed and have become a widespread trend in recent years in many countries. Many university teachers consider pedagogical training (PT) as a valuable tool in their teaching practice. In Slovenia, however, there is little evidence of teachers’ opinions and beliefs regarding PTCs.2Many authors consider the effect of PTCs in higher education (HE) on teaching questionable, but there is also evidence of the positive impact of PTCs on university teaching. The results of the present survey show that there are statistically significant differences in teachers’ opinions on initial and sustained PTCs. Formal education for teaching in primary and/or secondary schools is often considered as appropriate for teaching in HE. The respondents with higher titles attributed the lowest importance to sustained PTCs. Those involved in (short) PTCs attributed less importance to PT, as well as to the certificate of participation in PT in comparison to the respondents who were not involved in PTCs. On the other hand, the respondents with the highest participation in PT (51 hours and more) are more in favour of PTCs, which confirms the preliminary findings that courses of longer duration provide more opportunities to affect teachers’ pedagogical thinking and conceptions of teaching and learning in comparison to shorter courses.

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