scholarly journals Engaging Diverse Student Cohorts: Did Someone Say Completely Online?

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 364-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Moore ◽  
L. Signor
Keyword(s):  
Diverse Student ◽  
Student Cohorts

Telling Reflections: Teaching Sustainably in a Complex Learning Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Prescott
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Contextual Cues ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
Regional University ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Environmentally Responsive ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Student Cohorts

AbstractThis article examines learning design in a postgraduate preservice teacher setting. The overarching aim was to embed environmentally responsive approaches throughout two companion units for diverse student cohorts. This article reports on a teacher educator self-study in a regional university with extensive online delivery for large units (300–800 students) in a 1-year course. The author examines how assessment tasks in literacy- and numeracy-oriented units are designed to meaningfully integrate environmental sustainability using contextual cues, collaborative learning, complex tasks, and reflexivity. The author argues for the use of these four key guidelines of environmentally responsive pedagogies alongside environmental education programs to emphasise messages of sustainability even in units that are not traditionally environmentally oriented. Challenges include problematising the nature of effective teaching and dealing with the complexities of purposeful learning. Innovative unit learning design alone, however, is inadequate if the surrounding systems are fragmented and seen as separate to learning about sustainability.

Tackling Diversity and Promoting Inclusivity

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-33
Author(s):  
Josh McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
First Year ◽  
Teaching Experiences ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Student Cohorts ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter evaluates a flipped classroom model for teaching culturally and disciplinary diverse student cohorts, and analyzes the benefits and limitations of such a format when compared to traditional techniques. From 2015 to 2017, 388 first year students took part in the case study. Within three iterations of the same course, flipped and traditional tutorials were utilized. Participating students and staff evaluated the tutorial models, providing insight into both learning and teaching experiences. The findings of the study disseminate the benefits afforded by each model and provide insight into the varying attitudes of different demographics within contemporary student cohorts at university.

scholarly journals Two Left Feet: Dancing in Academe to the Rhythms of Neoliberal Discourse.

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen McGloin ◽  
Jeanette Stirling
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
University Policy ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Competence Training ◽  
Student Cohorts ◽  
Indigenous Educators ◽  
Australian Universities

Following the recommendations by the 2008 Bradley Report into higher education, cultural competence training has attracted attention and funding in Australian universities. This paper attempts to initiate a conversation about the implications of cultural competence in its current formation as it also attends to the tensions we experience as non-Indigenous educators teaching both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. We argue that current models of cultural competence are structured by the prevailing neoliberalist discourse that continues to regulate Australian universities, through language and practice. Drawing on the metaphor of dance, we locate the ‘steps’ that find us, awkwardly at times, attempting to balance the demands of university policy with the cultural diversity and multiple subjectivities of our students. We contend that from within the current framework of cultural competence, attempts to locate an ethical practice that speaks to the increasingly culturally diverse student cohorts in our classrooms are becoming increasingly complex.

scholarly journals Examining the need for culturally responsive digital learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Vail
Keyword(s):  
International Education ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Student Cohorts ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Education Marketing

This article addresses the pedagogy and practice of tertiary learning, and in particular it asks, how is there a need for culturally responsive digital learning? Research shows how, worldwide, classroom content is being delivered through shifting, digitally-infused curriculum (van Dijck, 2013; Netsafe, 2016; Orr, 2016; Revere & Kovach, 2011). The focus of this article is to examine ways in which online, participatory structures work to engage all learners. In New Zealand tertiary contexts, there is an increasing number of culturally diverse student cohorts (particularly due to international education marketing and strategies [Ministry of Education, 2017]). I consider how common spaces in the digital platforms available for educational purposes can be seen to embody a common culture. Research informing this article comes from two studies I have undertaken. The first is a practical inquiry of the use of online spaces in the ‘global classroom’ (a term defined in this case as the world wide web of information, and also an institution’ s role to educate within a multinational, multicultural population). The second is a qualitative look into how educators discovered effective learning practices, for international students in particular, based upon a study that included educator interviews at one tertiary institute. Merging data from both studies indicated that incorporating digital learning through the now-familiar online spaces requires more dynamic, culturally responsive pedagogy. This research aims to provide some improved insight for all educators looking to answer this posed question.

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