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The return of behaviourist epistemology: A review of learning outcomes studies
<p>Learning outcomes as a concept has encountered a revival since the beginning of the Bologna process in 1999. The concept itself has a longer history with its roots in the behaviourist tradition of the 1960s. The goal ...
Development of University Teachers’ Professional Vision of Students’ Prior Knowledge During a Short Pedagogical Training
<p>To support university students’ learning, teaching should build on students’ prior knowledge. Therefore, teachers need skills to pay attention to students’ knowledge in teaching-learning situations. Teachers’ underlying ...
Understanding Teacher Education Students' Research Competence Through Their Conceptions of Theory
Learning a scientific way of thinking is a fundamental aim of university education. It means that there are certain thinking skills that students across all disciplines should learn during their studies. For example, ...
Building a framework of a supportive pedagogical culture for teaching and pedagogical development in higher education
<p>The teaching and pedagogical development of academic communities is infuenced by dif‑ ferent contextual elements, which may not be apparent in everyday community practices, but may become evident through deeper refection of the context. This study approaches these elements from the perspective of a supportive pedagogical culture for teaching and pedagogical development. The data consist of Finnish university teachers’ descriptions of teaching and its development in their work communities through thematic interviews (N=51). Through inductive qualitative content analysis, meaningful elements of the communities’ pedagogical culture were identifed, which represent (a) values and attitudes, (b) norms and principles, and (c) practices and structures in the community. The study proposes a framework of supportive elements of pedagogical culture that should be acknowledged when promoting the development of teaching in university communities. Based on the fndings, it is especially important to establish a culture of sharing and to promote the value of teaching through various cultural elements.</p>...
Digital Stories Representing Agency Enhancement at Work
<div><div><p>This case study about agency enhancement at work in a business organization is based on narrative inquiry. After a staff development project lasting 2½ years, the employees produced digital stories concerning ...
Retention of University Teachers and Doctoral Students in UNIPS Pedagogical Online Courses
<p>Online education provides learning opportunities to a global audience. Most popular MOOC platforms have millions of users and MOOC designers are already competing with each other on how to spark and retain the interest of students. However, currently in popular MOOCs, roughly 90% of enrolled students yield their participation and previous research has identified that the dropouts occur mostly in the very early stages of the courses. This study explores student retention and engagement in pedagogical online courses aimed for university staff members and doctoral students, with quantitative data (N = 404) collected between the years 2016–2019. In addition, this study looks at differences in dropout rates between students of different age, gender, teaching position and department. Based on the conducted statistical analysis, age, gender, teaching position or department have no significant correlation with dropout rates. The majority of participants who drop out from the courses do so in the beginning without completing a single task. University teachers and doctoral students behave in online courses similarly as other students, and the results of the current study fits well with predictions from previous studies. However, this study found two anomalies: (1) A relatively low dropout rate (38,1%) and (2) Over 22% of students yielding their participation return to the courses (n = 31) after which over 50% of them complete the courses. The results highlight the importance of the beginning of online courses for reducing the overall dropout rates and suggest that students yielding their participation are likely to complete the courses the second time, if they enroll again.</p><div><h2>Keywords</h2>Staff development Online learning University pedagogy Student retention Engagement </div>...
Kemian LuK-opiskelijoiden lähestymistavat oppimiseen ja halu vaihtaa pääainetta
<p>Kemian oppiaineen ongelmana suomalaisissa yliopistoissa on ollut pääainetta<br />vaihtavien määrän suuruus. Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitettiin erityisesti kemian<br />opiskeluun liittyvällä lomakkeella kemian opiskelijoiden ...