Browsing by Subject "pedagogy"

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    The Changing Landscape of IS Education: An Introduction to the Special Issue
    (ISCAP, 2019) Freeman, Lee A.; Taylor, Nolan; Kelley School of Business - Indianapolis
    The last 30 years of information systems advancements and implementations within organizations saw amazing growth in computing power, interconnectivity, and analytical techniques. Simultaneously, information systems education has changed and adapted to these new organizational systems. The Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE) published its first article in 1989. To commemorate 30 years of JISE, we are excited and proud to present this Special Issue titled “The Changing Landscape of IS Education.” The primary themes of the 12 articles within the special issue are: retrospectives, improving pedagogy, program design and curricular models, the CIS/MIS/IS discipline, and strategic issues for the future.
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    "Discovering" Writing With Struggling Students: Using Discovery Learning Pedagogy to Improve Writing Skills in Reluctant and Remedial Learners
    (2016-03) Bohney, Brandie Lee; Lovejoy, Kim B.; Fox, Steve; Brooks-Gillies, Marilee Elizabeth
    Few writing teachers will disagree that teaching writing conventions in isolation is a fruitless, even harmful, pedagogy which does little, if anything, to improve student writing. Teaching conventions, style, and usage (often collectively referred to as grammar) in context, however, proves difficult when struggling secondary students develop good ideas and evidence but fail to clearly articulate them because of their lack of understanding of various writing conventions. The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of a carefully designed discovery learning activity which intends to push students into metacognition about what they read, how it is structured, and how that structure affects the reader. Three sources of data were used to determine whether students who had learned by discovery were better able to avoid and revise run-on sentences than students who did not learn through discovery pedagogy. The data sources include two sets of essays, surveys taken by the students, and teacher analyses of essays for readability. The results of the data analysis indicate that use of run-on sentences, especially early in an essay, detrimentally affects the readability of student written work; discovery learning activities improve student understanding, application, and transfer of skill; and while students believe they understand more than their written work indicates, the results provide teachers direction for further instruction. The findings of this study indicate that use of discovery learning for writing instruction with struggling learners holds great promise: a group of students generally regarded as academically weak showed greater understanding and application of run-on sentence avoidance than slightly stronger students who learned without discovery methods. This indicates that discovery learning is a method that improves learning among reluctant secondary students, a population many teachers struggle to reach effectively. Discovery learning is not limited to conventions, though: the promise of its application potential extends into a variety of writing skills and concepts. In addition to the run-on sentence discovery activity studied here, discovery activities for various other skills—from semicolon use through creating characterization with dialogue—are included.
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    Experiencing narrative pedagogy
    (2014-11) Bowles, Wendy S.; Sims, Sharon L.; Ironside, Pamela M.; Swenson, Melinda M.; Smith, Joshua
    The role of the nurse has changed dramatically in the past twenty years with increasing complexity of patient care and a rapidly changing health care environment. In addition to the challenges noted regarding patient care, problems with increasing medical errors were noted in the literature specific to graduates in their first year as a nurse. Research in particular to nursing education provides a way for nurse educators to become more astute at addressing problems pervading the role of the new nursing graduate. Narrative Pedagogy was identified as a research-based nursing pedagogy and has been researched and enacted for more than a decade. Out of the Narrative Pedagogy research, the Concernful Practices emerged identifying what was considered meaningful to nursing education by teachers, students, and clinicians. Listening was one of the Concernful Practices and became the focus of this study. The research question addressed the “How do nurse educators who enable Narrative Pedagogy experience Listening: knowing and connecting?” This was a hermeneutic phenomenological study in which ten nurse educators shared their experiences. The two themes that emerged from the study included: Listening as Dialogue and Listening as Attunement. The findings of this study provided a different way of thinking about teaching and learning that encompasses so much more than merely a strategy or outcome-based approach. The implications of this study offer nurse educators insight about opening a dialogue that draws attention to the realities of the role of the nurse responding to multiple patients with complex health conditions.
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    Fostering Trauma-Informed and Eudaimonic Pedagogy in Music Education
    (Frontiers, 2021-04) Walzer, Daniel; Music and Arts Technology, School of Engineering and Technology
    The arts and entertainment sectors remain fragile because of the global pandemic. Unemployment, physical and emotional stress, social isolation, a loss of purpose, and a problematic future are just a sample of the ongoing traumas that music educators and practitioners experience under duress. As an inherently social activity, music-making becomes especially difficult when the threat of infection persists, further exacerbating somatic trauma and decreased health and wellness. The sudden loss of daily contact with others, coupled with multiple kinds of crises, complicates matters for educators. How does one flourish when their livelihood, personal connections, and sense of meaning-making disappear? Likewise, how ought the music educator navigate such uncertainty when teaching others? To address these issues, psychologists have often turned to Trauma-Informed Care (TIC), a collaborative model between the practitioner and client that recognizes and validates the impact of painful memories and experiences. This article advocates for a compassionate eudaimonic pedagogy model that prioritizes healing and self-care for teachers and students and cultivating an ethos of critical digital pedagogy—itself a form of eudaimonia. Drawing on Noddings’ (1992, 1995, 2002) Philosophy of Care, the article concludes with suggestions on future connections between eudaimonia and music education.
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    I do, and I understand: The value of active learning in the classroom
    (2019-07-23) Murphy, Emily
    An ancient Chinese proverb states “I hear, and I forget; I see, and I remember; I do, and I understand.” Faculty are constantly challenged to create new and engaging activities that will facilitate a students’ understanding of the material. Purposefully designed learning experiences can accelerate student understanding, and encourage learners to become more motivated and engaged in the classroom. In this session, a faculty member from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Indianapolis will present different classroom activities from courses that allow the students to actively participate in their own learning. These exercises can easily be used in traditional classroom learning but are designed to encourage a flipped classroom approach. Application and hands-on learning has shown to be successful in student learning. The activities demonstrated in this session promote the students’ soft skills and encourage critical thinking and problem solving skills. This fun and interactive session will encourage attendees to participate in numerous classroom-tested strategies designed to improve their students’ soft skills. Attendees will also have the opportunity to share activities from their own classrooms.
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    Reading the Game: Exploring Narratives in Video Games as Literary Texts
    (2018-12) Turley, Andrew C.; Musgrave, Megan; Buchenot, Andre; Marvin, Thomas
    Video games are increasingly recognized as powerful tools for learning in classrooms. However, they are widely neglected in the field of English, particularly as objects worthy of literary study. This project argues the place of video games as objects of literary study and criticism, combining the theories of Espen Aarseth, Ian Bogost, Henry Jenkins, and James Paul Gee. The author of this study presents an approach to literary criticism of video games that he names “player-generated narratives.” Through player-generated narratives, players as readers of video games create loci for interpretative strategies that lead to both decoding and critical inspection of game narratives. This project includes a case-study of the video game Undertale taught in multiple college literature classrooms over the course of a year. Results of the study show that a video game introduced as a work of literature to a classroom increases participation, actives disengaged students, and connects literary concepts across media through multimodal learning. The project concludes with a chapter discussing applications of video games as texts in literature classrooms, including addressing the practical concerns of migrating video games into an educational setting.
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    Reframing the space between: Teachers and learners in context
    (Sage, 2018) Teemant, Annela; School of Education
    New audiences, new theoretical understandings of cognitive development and teaching, and the moral imperative to reach all learners and teachers require reframing how we assess our effectiveness in ELT. In this article, I present four areas of LTE that require reframing: (1) Who we prepare (2) with what content (3) to competently participate in personal and social change, (4) by making the space between teacher and students active with responsive assistance that improves learner outcomes.
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    Top Ten Facts of Life for Distance Education
    (2000-02) Lamb, Annette
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    Transitioning to online teaching: A phenomenological analysis of social work educator perspectives
    (Taylor & Francis, 2021-01-06) McCarthy, Katherine M.; Glassburn, Susan L.; Dennis, Sheila R.
    Online education in social work has been proliferating and is now ubiquitous due to COVID-19. To optimize instructor pedagogical wisdom and ensure student benefit, critical reflection is needed on the transition to online education. Prior to the pandemic, 17 social work educators were interviewed about their perspectives on the transition from teaching on-the-ground classes to online. This interpretative phenomenological study identified three themes that influenced the educator’s experience: personal qualities, pedagogical beliefs, and macro and institutional factors. It is this unique mix of each participants’ pedagogical beliefs, personal qualities, and macro or institutional factors which influenced the individual educator’s experience of satisfaction. Each educator’s perspective of online teaching is arrived at through calculations of costs and benefits as they balance their own and their students’ needs within the demands and supports of their respective institutions. These perspectives can be characterized by one of four standpoints: mutual benefit, compromised learning, instructor reservations, and incompatibility. Implications include enhancing social work educators’ critical reflexivity while navigating the evolving technological context and providing administrators with points of intervention to support instructors and develop online delivery modes.