Trial and Error in Journalism and Communication Education

Trial and Error in Journalism and Communication Education
Author: Sandra Marinho
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2021-12-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1527578054

This book explores the challenges of teaching journalism and communication in an ever-changing media environment. It considers the classroom as a space of “trial and error” and, therefore, of necessary innovation. It brings together professors and students from different universities across Europe to recount their teaching and learning experiences. The book also provides training proposals which offer an insight into the ongoing international debate on which teaching trends and practices can be effective in the digital environment. As such, the text will contribute to strengthening the university teaching of professional communicators based on technological innovation and critical thinking.

El aprendizaje-servicio en el entorno virtual. Pedagogía innovadora para la universidad del siglo XXI

El aprendizaje-servicio en el entorno virtual. Pedagogía innovadora para la universidad del siglo XXI
Author: Miryam C. González-Rabanal
Publisher: Dykinson
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2024-09-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 841070613X

La obra, El aprendizaje servicio en el entorno virtual. Pedagogía innovadora para la universidad del siglo XXI, pone en manos del lector la experiencia de varios proyectos de innovación docente desarrollados con la metodología del Aprendizaje-Servicio (ApS) por el Grupo de Innovación Docente de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED): Seguridad, Control de fronteras, Migraciones, Derechos humanos y Gestión Pública del Bienestar social, en colaboración con el Ayuntamiento de Madrid.Estos proyectos contribuyen a institucionalizar el ApS en la UNED en línea con lo previsto en los artículos 18.4 y 33.k) de la Ley Orgánica del Sistema Universitario y aportan como principal novedad no solo que su desarrollo se ha realizado totalmente online, sino que incorporan en sus diseños instrumentos de evaluación por parte de los propios estudiantes con el fin de conocer los aspectos que más valoran de las experiencias, recoger sus sugerencias de mejora y saber su opinión en relación a las tres dimensiones siguientes: su participación en el proyecto, el ApS como herramienta metodológica para profundizar en el conocimiento de los indicadores sociales, y la prestación del servicio consistente en proponer indicadores al Ayuntamiento de Madrid para evaluar algunos de sus programas sociales. Para ello, se ha utilizado un método mixto que completa un cuestionario de valoración online en Google Forms con el desarrollo de focus group, también online, realizados a través de Teams.La incorporación de herramientas informáticas como el software NVivo para hacer la transcripción y el tratamiento de los verbatim de las opiniones de los estudiantes de la Facultad de Derecho que han participado en su implementación es otro valor añadido de estos proyectos de Aprendizaje-Servicio.Además, la integración del Aprendizaje-Servicio en la Educación Superior, a través de proyectos llevados a cabo completamente en plataformas virtuales, se afianza como una metodología de enseñanza transformadora que no solo fomenta la justicia social y el desarrollo comunitario, sino que también establece un puente entre la Universidad (incluida la modalidad a distancia) y la realidad, al permitir que sus estudiantes aborden problemas tangibles y reales como parte de su formación curricular. De este modo, el Aprendizaje-Servicio virtual se erige en una estrategia clave para que los discentes estén mejor preparados para enfrentarse a los retos profesionales y sociales del siglo XXI.

Service-Learning in Higher Education

Service-Learning in Higher Education
Author: D. Butin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2005-07-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1403981043

Advocates have positioned service-learning as a real-world, real-time opportunity for students to encounter academic knowledge in a meaningful and relevant manner. Service-learning in higher education settings offers a powerful alternative to traditional models of teaching and learning. Students are encouraged to develop links to local institutions, volunteer their time, and create a special bond between the university and the community in which they live. Service-learning has become a very popular alternative to standard courses in higher education and is gaining significant popularity. This book takes a serious look at the unintended consequences and alternative conceptualizations of this mode of learning and explores what it could offer us in the future.

Project Managing E-Learning

Project Managing E-Learning
Author: Maggie McVay Lynch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2007-05-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135981426

The most comprehensive guide to developing e-learning projects in academia and the corporate education/training available E-learning is big business: Estimated growth by 2008 of the e-learning/distance education worldwide is huge: $3.2 billion in 2002 to – $23 billion in the post-compulsory sector, and £3.6 billion to $36 billion in workforce development Maggie McVay Lynch is an international figure in e-learning and instructional design John Roecker is head of e-learning with PMI (Project Management Institute), an international membership organization of over 200,000 members in 125 countries

Enhancing Synergies in a Collaborative Environment

Enhancing Synergies in a Collaborative Environment
Author: Pablo Cortés
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2015-02-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319140787

This volume contains a selection of the best papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management, XX International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, and International IIE Conference 2014, hosted by ADINGOR, ABEPRO and the IIE, whose mission is to promote links between researchers and practitioners from different branches, to enhance an interdisciplinary perspective of industrial engineering and management. The conference topics covered: operations research, modelling and simulation, computer and information systems, operations research, scheduling and sequencing, logistics, production and information systems, supply chain and logistics, transportation, lean management, production planning and control, production system design, reliability and maintenance, quality management, sustainability and eco-efficiency, marketing and consumer behavior, business administration and strategic management, economic and financial management, technological and organizational innovation, strategy and entrepreneurship, economics engineering, enterprise engineering, global operations and cultural factors, operations strategy and performance, management social responsibility, environment and sustainability. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners working in any of the fields mentioned above.

The Engaged University

The Engaged University
Author: David Watson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2011-07-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136738444

The Engaged University is a comprehensive empirical account of the global civic engagement movement in higher education. In universities around the world, something extraordinary is underway. Mobilizing their human and intellectual resources, institutions of higher education are directly tackling community problems – combating poverty, improving public health, and restoring environmental quality. This book documents and analyzes this exciting trend through studies of civic engagement and social responsibility at twenty institutions worldwide. This timely volume offers three special contributions to the literature on higher education policy and practice: a historical overview of the founding purposes of universities, which almost invariably included a context-specific element of social purpose, together with a survey of how these "founding" intentions have fared in different systems of higher education; a contemporary account of the policy and practice of universities – all over the world – seeking to re-engage with this social purpose; and an overview of generic issues which emerge for the "engaged university."

Research on University Teaching and Faculty Development

Research on University Teaching and Faculty Development
Author: Olga M. Alegre de la Rosa
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: College teachers
ISBN: 9781536108842

The book Research on University Teaching and Faculty Development: International Perspectives contains twenty-five solid and powerful chapters treating research aspects that reflect current university issues in ten countries. The book has been written by 60 proficient educators and accredited researchers. They have explored university teaching and faculty development as a field of inquiry that uses qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches for studying almost forty university topics. These themes range from academic planning, accountability, and action research to change in teacher education. The question of a relationship between university teaching and teacher induction is first introduced in the book to train future teachers with techniques and social elements that require a scientific rather than an artistic approach to reflective practices. Eight chapters inquire why some university campuses produce more/better collaborative teaching and change predisposition in higher education. The sort of attempt to discover activeness during teaching practice and to define the nature of the induction year may well provide a path to some basic understanding and offers tremendous research potential into the teaching profession. The second section of the book regards faculty development as an enigma. Written throughout five chapters, it stresses expert-novice studies to make coherent sense out of experience within the faculty. The action research approach is a basic method to studying active teaching/assessment and, accordingly, to an understanding of the forces resulting in the internal consistency of the learning communitys styles and processes. A crucial point is the female perspective at the higher education level that has permeated the culture of justice. The third part of the book contains six chapters of a quality nature. Governments and funding initiatives are focusing on the provision of university leadership development as a vehicle for renewing curriculum and quality assurance. The major beneficiaries of a well-run university change system in higher education are the students and graduates of any age, social and personal condition. New research on student assessment is unique among academic responsibilities in providing a direct linkage between learning activities and quality assurance, strategic decision-making processes. In this respect, how universities interpret inclusive education for students with developmental disabilities, and establishing structural relationships with society are important strategic matters to improve the functioning of the universitys organisation. Technology as an agent of university change is the fourth part of the book. It covers six chapters dealing with the impact of digital technology on traditional academic practices. Students' navigating discourses seem appropriate to enhance university learning because they intersect knowledge, competencies, confidence, information, and communication. The present day routine of Web 2.0 instruments in university teaching includes the use of computer generation and storage, to create and disseminate artifacts of undergraduate and graduate students.

Report to the European Commission on Improving the Quality of Teaching and Learning in Europe's Higher Education Institutions

Report to the European Commission on Improving the Quality of Teaching and Learning in Europe's Higher Education Institutions
Author: European Commission. High Level Group on the Modernisation of Higher Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2013
Genre: College teaching
ISBN:

"With this report, we put quality of teaching and learning centre stage and show examples that can be applied elsewhere. To us it seems research as one important mission of higher education has often overshadowed the other core mission of higher education: teaching and learning."--Page 7.

Embedding Service Learning in European Higher Education

Embedding Service Learning in European Higher Education
Author: Pilar Aramburuzabala
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351611909

Service learning brings together students, academics and the community whereby all become teaching resources, problem solvers and partners. In addition to enhancing academic and real-world learning, the overall purpose of service learning is to instil in students a sense of civic engagement and responsibility and work towards positive social change within society. Embedding Service Learning in European Higher Education promotes service learning as a pedagogical approach that develops civic engagement within higher education. It both describes and assesses the most recent developments and contextual positioning of service learning in European higher education and considers if and how the pedagogy is responding to European Union policy and the strategy of higher education institutions and towards engagement with broader societal issues. With case studies from 12 universities across Europe, this book draws on existing practice, shares knowledge and develops best practice to provide conceptual and practical tools for teaching, researching and practising service learning. This book: exposes service learning as a key approach in terms of embedding a culture of political and civic literacy within higher education; considers service learning in Europe, an area of growing research in service learning practice; explores the issue of university social responsibility; presents chapters from leaders in the service learning movement at a national and international level. Practical and engaging, Embedding Service Learning in European Higher Education is a fascinating read for anyone working in service learning as well as those working at universities with an interest in social and civic engagement and institutional reform.