Constructive Alignment (CA) is a pedagogical tool for designing student-centered instruction aligned to learning outcomes. Despite strong evidence that CA and are superior lecture-based pedagogy, the latter remains prevalent across higher education. This descriptive-explanatory case study ( n=20) investigates how programs of reciprocal, non-evaluative peer observation can help faculty understan...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has caused both unprecendented disruptions and massive changes to education. However, as schools return, these may disappear. Moreover, not all of the are necessarily we want in In this paper, argue that created a unique opportunity for educational have been proposed before but were never fully realized. We identify three big education should make post COVID: curr...

The advancement in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has provided new opportunities for teaching and learning in the form of e-learning. However, developing specialized contents, accommodating profiles of learners, e-learning pedagogy and available ICT infrastructure are the real challenges that need to be properly addressed for any successful e-learning system. The adaptability in...

Lynne S Giddings Auckland University of Technology Shirley Campbell Waitemata District Health Board Peter Maclaren Auckland University of Technology Health professionals are attracted to the flexibility of the virtual classroom for their on-going education. Recent studies have documented the differences in pedagogy between Internet based learning online and the traditional classroom setting, bu...

The purpose of this study was to determine if self-reported teaching style beliefs were different among faculty at a U.S. and an Israeli dental school. Teacher-centered practices refer to beliefs that the teacher holds the subject matter expertise and students are generally passive learners who must be told what to think. Student-centered practices refer to beliefs that students must learn how ...

A number of faculty who teach psychology courses opt out addressing diversity-centered content discomfort or glaze over this material, ultimately creating which does not relate to increasingly diverse student bodies (Boysen, 2011; Ocampo et al., 2003). The present study examines the effectiveness and impact utilizing a pedagogy grounded in theory diversity/social justice with respect learning o...

Students who chose to enroll in a supplemental course associated with a large biology lecture performed better on lecture exams than those students who chose not to enroll in the supplemental course. Sections of the supplemental course were taught with instructor-centered methods prior to some exams, student-centered methods prior to other exams, and a mixture of studentand instructor-centered ...

Paulo Freire in his seminal work Pedagogy of the Oppressed rigorously condemns banking model of education, which implies the learners’ receiving knowledge passively as empty vessels from the teacher , who is supposed to be store-house of knowledge, in the traditional teacher-centered classroom. This article presents relationships of banking education with some other learning theories, i.e., tab...

1 Texas A&M University -Corpus Christi Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract  In this paper we describe a student-centered laboratory developed by the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi and partially supported...