scholarly journals Better together: building a new support site for bachelor's students in nursing

Seminar.net ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Karen Marie Øvern ◽  
Astrid Kilvik
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
E Learning ◽  
User Groups ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

This study consists of two separate, but overlapping cases. As a consequence of a merger of four different higher education institutions in Norway, the [University name] got several nursing study programmes in different campuses. To get a more formal collaboration started, three university libraries decided to start a joint project. Case one was to build a product or service specifically designed for nursing students. Case two was to form a community of practice between librarians at the three libraries supporting these study programmes. Findings show that collaboration between different campus libraries is not always easy, even with online collaboration tools, but that a community of practice can be rewarding and an efficient way to collaborate. E-learning has been a way to serve both off-campus and campus students alike, and findings also show that building a product specifically designed for one user group can be exiting and worth the effort. The many mergers in higher education means that many librarians in Norway has become a part of much bigger units, and finding common ground, good collaboration methods and joint services to user groups are important issues. 

scholarly journals Usability and value of a digital learning resource in nursing education across European countries: a cross-sectional exploration

BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Hjorthaug Urstad ◽  
Esther Navarro-Illana ◽  
Bjørg Oftedal ◽  
Katharine Whittingham ◽  
Santiago Alamar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University

Abstract Background Higher education is responsible for providing education that meets international benchmarks relevant to the needs of the international community. Due to the increase of digital tools in higher education, the possibility of sharing learning resources across nations has expanded. In the current project, a Norwegian university invited universities in Spain and the United Kingdom to adapt and translate e-learning resources originally developed for Norwegian nursing students for use within their respective Bachelor in Nursing programmes. Aim The aim of the current study was to gain insights into the usability and value for learning of e-compendiums shared and implemented across three European universities. Methods The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional design and included nursing students from the University of Nottingham, Valencia Catholic University, and the University of Stavanger. Data were collected in Autumn 2017 through a questionnaire adapted from the validated “Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Reusable Learning Object evaluation questionnaire” The questionnaire consisted of 19 items that included two aspects: e-compendiums’ value for learning and e-compendiums’ usability. The different study sites were compared using a binary logistic regression analysis. Subgroups of students were compared based on their gender and age. Results A total of 480 nursing students participated in the study. The e -compendiums were overall positively rated, especially for reinforcing and retaining knowledge. Compared to the students from the University of Stavanger, students from Valencia Catholic University rated the e-compendiums more positively in most aspects of learning. Students from University of Nottingham found the e-compendiums to be more important for learning engagement compared to students at the Norwegian study site, and no differences were found in any other aspects of learning. Younger students rated the interactivity and visual components as more important compared to older students. Conclusions Students from the University of Nottingham and Valencia Catholic University seem to accept the e-compendiums despite the fact that they were originally developed for use in another country. We argue that, when sharing e-learning resources across countries, an adaptation and translation process that includes a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective should be carried out.

scholarly journals Projektaktivitet som kompetenceudvikling

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Karen Harbo ◽  
Karin Jönsson Jönsson ◽  
Anne Sissel Vedvik Tonning
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Competency Development ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Academic Network ◽  
The University ◽  
Digital Learning Resources

Institutions of higher education have strategies on digitization and the use of digital learning resources for their teaching in place. One initiative from the university libraries aiming to operationalize such strategies is a three-year Nordplus project that was completed in the autumn of 2019. The libraries at Aarhus University, Lund University and the University of Bergen have worked together on the development of e-learning objects, and their implementation and evaluation. The aim of the project was to develop the library's teaching of information literacy in a co-creation between libraries, the academic community and students. This article will shed light on the prerequisites that must be met for competency development among participants in a project to take place. We present relevant research and literature, and take a closer look at the project's activities and processes. In the analysis we discuss our experiences in relation to the literature presented, and we conclude, among other things, that participating in a project is engaging and enhances quality in learning processes. We also believe that collaboration in a wider academic network for educational librarians in the future will contribute to a stronger and clearer position as an educational actor for Nordic libraries in higher education.

scholarly journals The necessary requirements needed for employing e. learning in the (teaching staff) in the faculty member of education, from the point of view of the teaching staff in sudan university

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hatem Abdel Maged El-Sadek , Rehab Bashir Hassan Al-Awad
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Educational Design ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Descriptive Method

The study aimed to identify the necessary requirements needed for employing e. learning in the (teaching staff) in the faculty memberof education, from the point of view of the teaching staff. In this study the researcher employed the analytical descriptive method and the size of the sample in which the study was applied was (127) individualsof the teaching staff with a degree of Assistant Professorand above The researcher has employed questionnaire technique as a study tool. The most important findings of the study are: The study has come to the fact that the majority of the researchers managed to answer the study areas which are summarized in (the requirements needed for employing e. learning by the teaching staff، which was specified by this study، these requirements are vitally important from the point of view of the teaching staff. The most important requirements for the use of e-learning in the university faculty member. It consists in possessing the competencies of preparing courses electronically, which means designing the content or electronic curriculum in accordance with the principles of educational design. The most important recommendations of the study are: Providing all the requirements needed to put e. learning into practice (for the teaching staff members) which was determine by the study to employ e. learning in the institutions of the higher education in Sudan.  

Robbins and After

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Willetts
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Cultural Preservation ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Government Bonds ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Further Education Colleges

The early 1960s saw the biggest transformation of English higher education of the past hundred years. It is only matched by the break-up of the Oxbridge monopoly and the early Victorian reforms. It will be forever associated with the name of Lionel Robbins, whose great report came out in November 1963: he is for universities what Beveridge is for social security. His report exuded such authority and was associated with such a surge in the number of universities and of students that Robbins has given his name to key decisions which had already been taken even before he put pen to paper. In the 1950s Britain’s twenty-five universities received their funding from fees, endowments (invested in Government bonds which had largely lost their value because of inflation since the First World War), and ‘deficit funding’ from the University Grants Committee, which was a polite name for subsidies covering their losses. The UGC had been established in 1919 and was the responsibility not of the Education Department but the Treasury, which was proud to fund these great national institutions directly. Like museums and art galleries, higher education was rarefied cultural preservation for a small elite. Public spending on higher education was less than the subsidy for the price of eggs. By 1962 there were 118,000 full-time university students together with 55,000 in teacher training and 43,000 in further education colleges. This total of 216,000 full-time higher education students broadly matches the number of academics now. Young men did not go off to university—they were conscripted into the army. The annual university intake of around 50,000 young people a year was substantially less than the 150,000 a year doing National Service. The last conscript left the army in the year Robbins was published. Reversing the balance between those two very different routes to adulthood was to change Britain. It is one of the many profound differences between the baby boomers and the generation that came before them. Just over half of students were ‘county scholars’ receiving scholarships for fees and living costs from their own local authority on terms decided by each council.

Like It

2016 ◽  
pp. 426-445
Author(s):  
Mary Leigh Morbey ◽  
Farhad Mordechai Sabeti ◽  
Michelle Sengara
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Comprehensive University ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Effective Inclusion ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University

Social networking environments have become a ubiquitous part of the university experience. Accordingly, postsecondary institutions have started to consider the role that social networking can play in teaching and learning across academic disciplines. This case study documents findings from a 2012-2013 mixed-methods data collection in six graduate and undergraduate Digital Literacies and New Media Literacies courses at a major Canadian comprehensive university. It examines the pedagogical implications of adapting the Facebook platform for online collaboration and multimedia learning in blended courses, and offers a model of Facebook implementation for engineering and architecture education. Questions guiding the research ask: What is gained pedagogically through the use of Facebook in higher education courses? What are the pedagogical challenges encountered, and how might these be addressed? Suggestions based on observed trends are offered for the effective inclusion of Facebook as a beneficial pedagogical component in the design of e-learning platforms for higher education.

The Elite, Elitism, and Ensuing Conversations in Ghana’s Higher Education: Myth or Reality?

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 787-808
Author(s):  
Delali Amuzu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
University System ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Education In Ghana ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Contemporary higher education in Ghana and many parts of Africa has European colonial antecedents. In spite of the many goals that it aspired to achieve, a preoccupation was to nurture an elite group. Though widely used, the concept of elite and elitism is vague and hardly conceptualized. It hoovers from status—occupants of the apex or top echelons of an organization/society, to consumption—people with immense wealth. Influence, on the other hand, seems to be a common denominator in both cases. But, does this capture the scope of the phenomenon? This article engages people who have worked in different capacities in Ghana’s higher education space to examine the deeper meanings that could be embedded in elitism, elicits conceptualizations of elitism, and further finds out how elitist higher education is in Ghana. Ultimately, the article intends to initiate a conversation on whether indeed there are elites being produced from the university system. This study was done with reference to an empirical study on decolonizing higher education in Ghana.

Research on University Library E-Learning Environment Construction under MOOCs Trend

2014 ◽  
Vol 543-547 ◽  
pp. 4298-4303
Author(s):  
Jian Ping Liu ◽  
You Qun Shi ◽  
Zai Xin Ren
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Learning Support ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Network Education ◽  
Cooperation Mechanism ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
One Stop ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Modes ◽  
The University

With network education popularizing and developing, E-learning in MOOCs trend is gradually becoming one of the most important learning modes in the university. Current simple resource and service of university libraries without integrative design cannot satisfy the information needs of the customers. This paper introduces the basic elements of the MOOCs E-learning course, its technical strategies and the significance of its construction. Targeted at the demands of the users for E-learning based on MOOCs, the library should establish the cooperation mechanism between colleges on campus, office of teaching affairs and other departments, complete the integration of curriculum-based virtual and entity services, and thus enables the teachers and students to get one-stop MOOCs E-learning support services. The theoretical framework of the research and its practical application could provide some insightful suggestions on MOOCs E-learning in other university libraries.

scholarly journals EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING METHODS USED IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY OF EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF MADRID, SPAIN

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Leila Bardasuc ◽  
Jose Luis Martinez Rubio ◽  
Nicusor Marcel Udrea ◽  
Monica Delia Domnica
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
European University

The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of various teaching methods used in higher education and the perception of the students regarding these methods. In order to determine the possible ways to obtain strategic advantages and benefit from the strengths, the university has to know what drives foreign students in choosing a certain study program, even if it is outside their country of origin. At the same time, knowing the disadvantages that prevent them from doing so, helps the university include ways to correct the weaknesses or to offer solutions to them. The students, participating in this research, are enrolled at the European University in Madrid, from different study programs and degrees (license, master and doctoral programs) and were asked to answer a questionnaire about the use of teaching methods, about their perceptions upon effective teaching and the reasons that have determined them to choose to follow a study program. The results were in favor of a higher use of projects, group activities and case studies during classes and seminars at the European University of Madrid and of using new technologies in the educational system (e-learning, simulations, use of intranet, and activities in laboratories). As a primer characteristic searched for when choosing a study program, the students mentioned practice, mainly for developing abilities useful for applying for a job as soon as possible. It is, therefore, important to analyze the teaching methods and this research helps us understand how students see the teaching process and which are the methods that help them to better understand and to be more active during classes. Key words: creativity development, innovative teaching, practical activities, teaching methods.

scholarly journals Las bibliotecas universitarias argentinas y la educación en línea ante la pandemia por COVID19

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anabel Gaitán ◽  
María Inés Coraglia
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
National Level ◽  
Information Collection ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Direct Information ◽  
Service Portfolio ◽  
The Face ◽  
The University ◽  
Innovation And Change

Nos propusimos identificar el porfolio de servicios de las Bibliotecas Universitarias y sus modificaciones frente a la complejidad causada por la pandemia COVID19, a fin de reconocer las diferentes metodologías de comunicación y gestión de las mismas con su comunidad de usuarios en contextos de aislamiento, y que esto nos permita evaluar los procesos de innovación y cambio en ocasión de la pandemia. Realizamos un relevamiento de información documental a través de los sitios web de las Bibliotecas y las organizaciones que agrupan el colectivo Bibliotecario, con el fin de evaluar y comparar las respuestas de éstas ante la crisis a nivel nacional (Argentina), y de pares en Iberoamérica. Luego se aplicó un instrumento de recolección de información directa al conjunto de 326 Bibliotecas pertenecientes a las 131 Universidades Argentinas. Finalmente arribamos a conclusiones que nos permiten ponderar la identidad de las Bibliotecas Universitarias en la Educación Superior post COVID19. We set out to identify the service portfolio of the University Libraries and their modifications in the face of the complexity caused by the COVID19 pandemic, in order to recognize their different communication and management methodologies within the community of users in isolation contexts, allowing us to evaluate the processes of innovation and change in the event of the pandemic. We carried out a survey of documentary information through the websites of the Libraries and the organizations that make up the Librarian joint, in order to evaluate and compare their responses to the crisis at national level (Argentina), and peers in Latin America. . Then a direct information collection instrument was applied to the set of 326 Libraries belonging to the 131 Argentine Universities. Finally, we arrived at conclusions that allow us to weigh the identity of the University Libraries in Post-COVID19 Higher Education.

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